A deciduous tree 18 m or more in height and about 1.8 m in girth. Bark dark-greenish grey, pale-grey or brown, fairly smooth, with vertical lines of lenticels and fine fissures, exfoliating in irregular flakes; leaves paripinnate, crowded near the ends of the branches: leaflets lanceolate, 5-15 cm. long, 5-10 pairs; flowers polygamous, mostly bisexual, small, in terminal, compound panicles; drupes globose, fleshy, saponaceous, usually solitary, sometimes two drupels together, wrinkled or smooth, 2.0-2.5 cm. in diam., the pulp drying into a light-brown, somewhat translucent saponaceous rind with a wrinkled surface; seed enclosed in black, smooth, hard endocarp.

Possess insecticidal properties, febrifuge (seed)

Herbal Monograph

Saponin, mukorosside

Excessive salivation, epilepsy and chlorosis (fruits); dental caries (seed powder); soothe the eczema, psoriasis, itchy skin, sensitive skin