Aglaia lawii (Wight) C.J.Saldanha

Tree up to 30 m, sometimes flowering as an unbranched treelet c. 1.6 m high. Bole up to 75 cm in diam., fluted and with concave or tall narrow buttresses, upwards up to 1.8 m, outwards up to 1 m. Bark reddish-brown, orange brown, yellowish-brown or pale pinkish-brown, rough and flaking in large thin irregular scales, sometimes with large round orange lenticels, or bark grey or greenish-brown and smooth; inner bark green, cambium white, sapwood pale orange, orange-brown or yellowish-brown, sometimes turning magenta pink on exposure to air; latex white. Twigs usually slender, sometimes up to 9 mm across, densely covered with pale brown or pale orange brown, usually peltate scales which have an irregular or fimbriate margin and may have a dark brownish-black central spot, sometimes densely covered with stellate scales and sometimes with stellate hairs interspersed. Leaves imparipinnate, 7–66 cm long and 5–60 cm wide; petiole 1.5–16 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules with a few or densely covered with scales like those on the twigs, in Borneo the rachis sometimes ridged or with narrow foliolate wings up to 3 mm wide. Leaflets (1) 2–7(–11), 4–30 by 1.5–11.5 cm, often orange-brown or whitish-green when dry, especially the veins, sometimes subcoriaceous, acuminate or acuminate-caudate at apex, usually broadly cuneate but occa-sionally rounded, attenuate or (sometimes in Borneo) cordate at the asymmetrical base, some times rounded on the distal side and cuneate on the proximal side of the petiolule, often with numerous pits on the upper and lower surfaces, without hairs or scales or with occasional or numerous scales like those on the twigs on the lower surface; veins 5–2 on each side of the midrib, reticulation barely visible or subprominent on the lower surface; sometimes (but not in Peninsular Malaysia) with a depression in the axil between the lateral vein and the midrib which is surrounded by a dense tuft of stellate hairs which have long arms or simple hairs; sessile or with petiolules up to 20 mm. Inflorescences in the axils of c. 5 leaves near the apex of the shoot, in Borneo sometimes ramiflorous, 2.5–22 cm long and 1.5–20 cm wide; sessile or with a peduncle up to 10.5 cm long, peduncle, rachis and branches with numerous or densely covered with scales or hairs like those on the twigs. Flowers 1.5–4.5 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide; pedicel 0.5–5 mm, the pedicels and calyx with few to densely covered with pale brown or orange peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin or occasionally with stellate hairs., Calyx divided into 3 or 4(–6) obtuse lobes. Corolla a short tube connate with the base of the staminal tube, divided into 3 or 4(–6) subrotund lobes, sometimes with a few scales like those on the twigs on the outside. Staminal tube shorter than the corolla, either obovoid with the aperture entire and 0.3–0.5 mm in diam. or cup-shaped with the apical margin incurved and shallowly lobed and 0.6–1.5 mm in diam.; anthers (5) 6–10 (11), ovoid, 1/3–3/4 the length of the tube, inserted in the uppermost 1/3–1/2 of the tube, included or just protruding through the aperture, sometimes with a few simple hairs on the anthers and the inside of the staminal tube. Infructescence 3.5–15 cm long with 1–20 fruits which ripen at different times; sessile or with a peduncle up to 5.5 cm with surface and indumentum like the inflorescence. Fruits 1.7–2.8(–6) cm long, 1.2– 2.3(–3.5) cm in diam., subglobose, obovoid, ellipsoid or pear-shaped, sometimes with a small beak, asymmetrical if a seed does not develop in each locule, dehiscent, fruit-stalk 1.5–15 mm; pericarp usually c. 2.5 mm thick but sometimes in Borneo thinner so that it is moulded around the seeds in the dried fruit, outer pericarp pink or sometimes carmine red or yellow, densely covered with scales like those on the infructescence branches, inner pericarp white; locules (2 or) 3 (or 4), each containing 0 or 1 arillate seed; aril 1–3.5 mm thick, the edges nearly meeting or meeting and overlapping on the antiraphe side, easily peeled off the testa, the outer skin red or white, the flesh soft, white and oily; seed with aril removed c. 14 mm long, 7 mm wide and 6 mm thick; testa shiny dark brown.

Mid-canopy tree in undisturbed mixed dipterocarp, coastal and sub-montane forests up to 2,000 metres. Common on alluvial sites and along rivers and streams, but also on hillsides and ridges. On sandy to clay soils, often found near or on limestone.

UsesLeaves are applied for headache (Mindanao); wood is used for construction (Palawan).

Can be grown by seedlings.