Fruits edible, anti-diarrheal. The leaves are antirheumatic and an antidote to poisoning. The astringent fruits are used in the treatment of dysentery and diarrhoea.

ഫലം ഭക്ഷ്യയോഗ്യമാണ്. വയറിളക്കത്തെ പ്രതിരോധിക്കുന്നു.

Trees, to 20 m high, aerial roots on large buttresses; bark brown, mottled with grey. Leaves simple, alternate, elliptic-obovate, margin crenate-serrate. Flowers bisexual, white, in axillary racemes. Sepals 5, ovate, valvate. Petals 5, laciniate, inserted round the base of glandular disc. Stamens many, inserted between the glands on the disc. Ovary superior, 3-celled; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a drupe, green.