A large, deciduous tree, occasionally buttressed, up to 37.5 m in height and 2.4 m in girth, with a clear bole of 9 m, and horizontal branches. Bark grey, fissured; leaves coriaceous, broadly ovate, elliptic-oblong, 7.5-18.0 cm x 4.5-16.0 cm; flower heads globose, yellow, solitary, terminal, 3.7 cm in diam consisting of small, yellow or orange-coloured, scented flowers; fruit a fleshy, orange, globose, pseudocarp of compressed angular capsules with persistent calyx; seeds small, muriculate.

Anthelmintic and hypoglycemic (50% EtOH stem bark extract); nutritious, astringent and bitter (leaves); tonic, astringent, febrifuge, anti-diuretic (stem bark).

Anthocephalus chinensis (Lam.) Rich. ex Walp.

Saponins, cadambagenic acid and beta-sitosterol (stem bark); quinovic acid (root and bark); cadambine, cadamine, isocadamine, hentriacontanol, beta-sitosterol (leaves).

In anemia, fever and improving the quality of semen (plant decoction); for gargling in aphthae or stomatitis (leaves); for the inflammation of eyes (stem bark)

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.