Description

• Tree to 20 m tall; bark smooth or with boat-shaped fissures, brown to pale grey; exudate milky or yellow.
• Leaves broadly elliptic-oblong or obovate.
• Flowers polygamous, white, fragrant. Sepals 4, reflexed. Petals usually 4, obovate to elliptic, reflexed.

Medicinal Uses

• Coumarins isolated from the leaves and seeds have been shown to be inhibitors of HIV type 1. They might also be valuable as cancer chemo-preventive agents.
• Seed extracts showed significant molluscicidal activity; the hydroxy acid calophyllic acid was isolated as the active compound.
• The bark is used to treat orchitis.