Antidesma montanum

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Antidesma montanum is a tree about 10 m tallm with thin flaky bark in old trees. Branchlets are cylindrical, velvety. Alternately arranged leaves, 8-22 x 2.5-7.7 cm, are usually oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate, tip gradually pointed with a sharp point. Base is acute to rounded simple, Stipules occur in pairs, linear-lance shaped, pointed, 1.2 cm long, Leaf stalk is 0.25-1.2 cm long. Flowers are borne in racemes in leaf axils or at the end of branches. Flowers are unisexual – clusters of flowers in male distant than in female. Drupe is elliptic, somewhat oblique, turning red; seed 1.
The leaves are soporific and employed in treating snakebite, Hypertension, Heart palpitations, cough and digestive disturbance.