Occasional in homesteads The heart wood yields a quality dye and decoction of the wood is considered a powerful emmenagogue and useful in skin diseases, haemorrhages and disturbance of ets menstrual functions. It is also considered as astringent and sedative and cures biliousness
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The heart wood yields a quality dye and decoction of the wood is considered a powerful emmenagogue and useful in skin diseases, haemorrhages and disturbance of ets menstrual functions. It is also considered as astringent and sedative and cures biliousness, fever, delirium, ulcer, strangury and urinary concretions. 5,
family
Fabaceae
synonym
Binacaea sappan (L.) Tod.
description
Trees, to 8 m high, sparsely armed with short straight or recurved prickles. Leaves bipinnate, alternate; rachis 20-40 cm long; pinnae 10-14 pairs, 2.5-10 cm long, spiny between pinnae pairs; leaflets × 20-40, opposite, subsessile, 1-2.5 0.5-1 cm, as oblong, base oblique, obtuse, apex obtuse; lateral nerves 5-15 pairs; stipules spiniform, to 3-5 mm long. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in supra-axillary and terminal racemes; pedicels 1-2 cm long. Sepals 5, unequal. Petals 5, orbicular, subequal, with red spot at the base. Stamens 10, declinate, × densely woolly at base. Fruit a pod, 7-10 3- 4 cm, obliquely oblong, black, glabrous; seeds black, oblong or ellipsoid.