Botanical Name - Ougeinia dalbergioides

----- Ougenia, Benth.; F.B.I. II-160. O. dalbergioides, Benth.; F.B.I. II-161. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 224. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 237. Vern. Sandan, Hind. Dargu, Tella-modgu, Kodi-mudsu, Tel. Tiwas, Tunuz, Mar.

----- A moderate-sized deciduous tree, often gregarious. Bark light brown, sometimes with bluish patches, with regular longitudinal and horizontal cracks. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, with a double stipule at the base of the terminal leaflet; Leaflets the lateral ones opposite, 2 1/2 - 4 1/2 by 1 1/2 - 3 in., obliquely elliptical; the terminal leaflet 3-6 by 2-3 1/2 in., borad-ovate, all entire of obscurely crenate, coriaceous, glabrous above, more or less downy or glabrescent beneath. Flowers dark pink or purple, 1-2 in. across, in fascicled racemes generally from the old wood; pedicels 1/2 - 3/4 in. Calyx-tube campanulate; teeth small, upper 2 sub-connate. Corolla much exserted; standard broad; keel obtuse. Stamens diadelphous; anthers uniform. Pod very distinctly jointed, 2-4 by 1/3 in., flat; joints 1/2 - 2/3 in. long. Seeds about 1/5 in. long, smooth, brown when mature.

----- Especially common towards Khandesih, The Kannad Reserve and the Ajanta hills in Aurangabad; elsewnere frequently met with along the Godavari, and more or less scarce in other forests. It seldom reaches a size sufficient to give a plank of 9 inches. It is a wood of great strength and toughness, hard and close-grained; Sap-wood small, grey; heart-wood mottled, light-brown, sometimes reddish-brown, it is especially suitable for cart and carriage-building and agricultural implements, and also makes and comes up readily in gregarious patches in blanks in the Forest. It also loped for fodder for cattle. The bark is pounded and used to intoxicate fish; it gives a rough coarse fibre and a red transparent astringent gum from incisions. The tree is well worthy of being grown for ornament in gardens, as shen in full flower (with its fascicles of purple blossoms) is very handsome.