ABSTRACT
Alangium salviifolium (L.f.) Wangerin (Family: Cornaceae) is a deciduous bushy shrub or small tree, with or without spines; young branchlets often rusty-pubescent. Bark pale brown, aromatic, with rough cracks, and exfoliating in corky scales. Leaves alternate, elliptic, or ovate, apex acute or obtuse with a pair of basal and 4–6 pairs of lateral veins. Inflorescence axillary, flowers bisexual, on articulated pedicels. Fruit drupaceous, crowned with remnants of calyx, 1–2 seeded. It is distributed over the plains and lower montane areas throughout India and elsewhere in East Africa to China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and New Guinea. In peninsular India, usually found in dry deciduous forests, along roadsides and cultivated lands near villages.
