Aporosa cardiosperma

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Lindley’s Aporosa is a tree up to 15 m tall. Bark is smooth to shallowly fissured, brownish; blaze pink. Branchlets are round, hairless. Alternately spirally arranged leaves are narrow oblong to narrow elliptic, 7.5-17 x 3-7.5 cm. Tip is gradually long-pointed, sometimes falling off. Base is narrow to rounded. Leaves are papery, hairless, with the midrib raised above. Stipules are oblong-lanceolate, pointed, falling off. Leaf stalks are 0.7-1.3 cm long, swollen at both ends. Flowers are unisexual, dioecious. Male flowers are borne in auxiliary catkins. Female flowers are borne in condensed cymes. Capsule is smooth, spherical, up to 1.3 cm across, 2-4 seeded. Lindley’s Aporosa is found in Sri Lanka and throughout Western Ghats.
The fruits and leaves of Lindley’s Aporosa used as medicine for pain of viper.