Evergreen shrub or usually single-stemmed tree up to 25(-40) m tall with an extensive root system, sometimes with aerial adventitious roots. Bark layered, fibrous and papery, grey to white. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, three to five inches long, dark green, smooth, quite aromatic. Flowers small, white; calyx five-parted, half superior; corolla five-stamened; stamens forty or more, the long filaments united into five bodies.

Vermifuge, antispasmodic (oil); antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and anodyne (leaves)

The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy
AgroForestryTree Database

To destroy intestinal worms, efficient in cholera morbus, cholera infantum, nervous vomiting, hysteria, in rheumatism, bruises, sprains, contusions, chilblains, lameness, and other painful affections; against pain, burns, colds, influenza and dyspepsia (leaves).