Common names (English):

Devil tree, Shaitan wood

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Tree

Distribution:

South and South East Asia to Australia

Use: Medicinal

Description:

Large trees, 15-30 m high; latex milky white. Leaves simple, in whorls, obovate, oblanceolate, apex obtuse or emarginated. Flowers greenish-white in terminal umbellate cymes. Corolla salver shaped. Stamens 5. Fruit of two linear, narrow, pendulous follicular mericarps.