Habit and Habitat: Terrestrial, grows at an altitude of 750 m above the sea level6 and in fertile and semi-fertile soil. Height up to 9-10mts. Perennial, which can range from dark green to greyish green in colour.
Distribution: It is found all over Indian subcontinent. Native to the Western Ghats
and Deccan plateau. It also found in central and Eastern Himalayas.

Morphology: Leaf: It is a Paripinnately Compound leaves, alternate, distichous and 7-30 cm long and its petiolule 0.1-0.6 cm long and opposite leaflets, 4-6 pairs, narrow elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, and its apex acute to acuminate, base acute to rounded or subcordate, glabrous, midrib raised above and tertiary nerves reticulate.
Inflorescence: Dense Corymbs Flower: Bracteate, brateolate, Calyx small petaloid, Corolla tube long, 5 petals. Androecium: 10 stamens, long, yellow at the base red at tapering ends, bilobed.

Gynoecium: Ovary superior, many ovules, style long, stigma very small.

Fruit: Pod, compressed, oblong, about 15cms long, dehisce longitudinally.

Seeds: obovate-orbiculate.
Propagation: Through seeds.

Uses: Grown as ornamental tree in gardens. Highly Medicinal valued. It is anti-microbial, anti-ulcer, anti-oxidant, anti-cancerous, larvicidal activity, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic,
anti-helminthic.