Buchanania axillaris

A medium sized tree, hairless, branches stout, bark rough, deeply fissured. Leaves are linear-oblong, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, rounded or narrow at base, entire at margin, blunt, rounded or notched at tip, 7.5–15 x 3–5 cm, smooth, netveined, lateral nerves 12–15 pairs. Leaf-stalks are 1.75 -3 cm long, slender. Flowers are 3–6 mm across, in axillary and terminal hairless branched panicles, white. Sepals are 5, semicircular, about 1 mm long. Petals are 5, oblong or ovate, about 2.5 mm long. Stamens are 10, anthers oblong, ovary hairy. Fruit is obliquely globose, about 1.25 cm, slightly compressed.

The kernel of the seeds are edible. The seeds contain 19% proteins, 59.1% fat, 3.8% fibres, 12.1% carbohydrates and minerals at the value of 3 grams per 100 grams and the calorific value of the seeds are 656 K kal/100 g. The seed kernel and bark is used in the form of decoction to treat intrinsic haemorrhage, diarrhoea with blood and as tonic. Seed kernels were made into a powder and used with milk as an aphrodisiac, powder of the bark mixed with honey is useful in dysentery with blood.