Mimusops elengi Linn.

Description: Mimusops elengi Linn. (M. elengi) is a large glabrous evergreen trees 12-15 m high, with a compact leafy head and short erect trunk, bark smooth, scaly, and gray, Leaves may be 3.2-5 cm, elliptic shortly acuminate, glabrous, base acute or rounded, petioles 1.3-2.5 cm long, flower white, fragrant, nearly 2.5 cm across solitary, buds ovoid, acute; pedicels 6.20 mm long. Calyx 1 cm long, stamens 8, opposite to the inner circle of lobes. Ovary appressedly silky-pubescent, fruit berry about 2.5 cm long, ovoid, yellow when ripe, seed solitary, ovoid, compressed, brown, shining .

Flowering and Fruiting: April to October.

Economic Importance: The flowers are sweet, acrid, oleagenous; cooling, astringent to the bowels; good for the teeth, causes flatulence. The bark is acrid and sweet; cooling, cardiotonic, alexipharmic, stomachic, anthelmintic, astringent; cures biliousness and diseases of the gum and teeth The root is sweet and sour; aphrodisiac, diuretic, astringent to the bowels; good for gonorrhoea; as a gargle, strengthens the gums. The fruits are sweet and sour, aphrodisiac, diuretic, astringent to the bowels, good in gonorrhoea .

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