A deciduous spinescent shrub or small tree upto 10 m high root yellowish strong root-bark dark brown; stem bark pale brown roug with shallow cracks. PHARMACOGNOSY Leaf : Leaves 8 to 13 cm in length and 3 to 5 cm in width simple petiolate petiole 6 to 13 mm long lanceolate narrowly oblong or ovate bas erounded or acute glabrous above pubescent on the nerves venation reticulate. Petiole : Epidermis single layered covered by cuticle; non glandular mostly unicelular rarely bicellular uniseriate trichomes measuring upto 2800 microns in length and upto 16 microns in width; 7 to 10 layered collenchyma present just beneath the epidermis followed by parenchymatous tissue