bandhuka :

Morphology:

It is deciduous small tree growing up to nine m in ht. Branches are grayish and spine scent. Leaves are 3.0-3.5 cm long, broadly ovate or rhombic, cuneate at base, deeply and sharply cut to two-thirds their width, coarsely-toothed, pubescent or glabrescent beneath. Petioles are almost equal to blade.

Floral Characteristics Ÿ Flowers are 5.0-5.7 mm long, white terminal corymbose cymes. Calyx is woolly-hairy at base having 5-lobbed. Lobes are sub-acute. Petals are 5 in number and orbicular. Stamens are many. Carpels are adnate to the calyx tube, tips pubescent. Styles are 1 or 2 in number, slender and globose. Fruits are glabrous,scarlet red and fleshy.