Harrisonia brownii A.Juss.

Tree to 4 m high or a shrub, sometimes sprawling. Leaves sometimes in clusters, trifoliate; leaflets usually ovate, acuminate, entire or irregularly serrate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent or pilose below; terminal leaflet largest, to 8.5 cm long; lateral leaflet to 5 cm long; base attenuate or oblique; stipules conical, 0.5–1.2 mm long. Inflorescence few-flowered, to 7 cm long; peduncles 1.5–5 cm long; flowers 4-merous. Calyx lobes c. 0.5 mm long. Petals lanceolate to oblong, to 5 mm long, green-white or yellow. Stamens 8, shorter than or equal to petals; appendage a bilobed basal ligule, 1–1.5 mm long. Disc cylindrical, 8–10-lobed. Styles 4, to 2.5 mm long, connate; ovary c. 1 mm long. Fruit frequently a single globose drupe, 4-5 mm diam., black; compound fruits deeply lobed.

The Malaysian spp. usually on dry, open, hot places, often on limestone rocks, under distinctly seasonal conditions, usually at low altitude, up to 700 m, locally sometimes extremely common in thickets, less common in open monsoon forests.

Uses. In some parts of Malaysia the shoots are used as a drug against diarrhoea. In the Philippines a decoction of the bark and roots is used against diarrhoea and dysentery, and apparently also against cholera ( HEYNE Nutt. Pl. 1927 871 BURK. Dict. 1935 1128 ).

Can be grown by seedlings.