Botanical Name - Schrebera swietenioides

----- Schrebera, Roxb. S. swietenioides., Roxb.; F.B.I. III-604. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 444. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 469, Vern. Mokhab, Tel.

----- A large deciduous tree; trunk erect; branches numerous, spreading. Bark grey, scabrous, exfoliating in thin irregular scales. Leaves imparipinnate, about 1 ft. long; leaflets opposite or nearly so, 3-4 pairs, 3-5 in. long, the lowermost largest and obliquely ovate or cordate while those towards the apex become narrower, all quite entire, acute, amooth on both sides; petiole 1/4 - 1/2 in., stipules none; branchlets thickened at nodes, and common petiole at the insertion of leaflets. Flowers small, white, variegated with brown, fragrant at night, in thin trichotomous terminal panicles. Calyx 1/6 in., tubular, 5-cleft, at length 2-lipped with sometimes 2 lateral toothlets, one on each side of the fissures which separate the lips; Corolla inserted below the ovary, funnel-shaped, 1/3 - 1/2 in. long; limb 5-7-lobed; lobes widely sprerading, 1/5 - 1/4 in., cuneate, obtuse, with brown glandular raised dots on the upper side. Stamens 2, filaments very short, inserted on the middle of the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled; style simple, exserted; stigma bifid. Capsule size of a hen's egg, pyriform, woody, hard, scabrous, 2-celled, dehiscing, loculicidally, valves septiferous; seeds 4 in each cell, pendulous, irregularly oval, compressed, produced into a long membranous wing.

----- This tree is not common, although met with throughout the Telangana forests, Wood brownish-grey, hard, close-grained; no definite heart-wood but irregular masses of purple or claret-coloured wood in the centre, and scattered throughout the tree; annual rings indistinct. It is durable and of good quality, does not warp, and in grain is rather like boxwood. It is used by weavers for beans and for many other purposes in their looms; it is also well adapted for the lathe. Weight about 57 lbs. per c. ft. Flowers February to April.