Clustered hiptage, Helicopter Flower

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Clustered hiptage is a stout, high-climbing liana or large shrub, with white or yellowish hairs on the stem. Its leaves are lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate and approximately 20 cm (8 in) long, and 9 cm (4 in) broad; petioles are up to 1 cm long. It has scandent branches up to 5 m (16 ft) high.
Clustered hiptage flowers intermittently during the year, and produces fragrant flowers borne in compact ten-to-thirty-flowered axillary racemes. The flowers are pink to white, with yellow marks. Fruits are samaras with three spreading, papery oblanceolate to elliptic wings, 2–5 cm long, and propagate via wind or by cuttings.
The bark leaves and flowers are aromatic, bitter, acrid, astringent, refrigerant, vulnerary, expectorant, cardiotonic, anti –inflammatory and insecticidal. They are useful in vitiated conditions of pitta, burning sensation, wounds, ulcers, cough, asthma, cardiac debility, inflammations, skin diseases, leprosy, scabies, rheumatism and hyperpiesia.