Rourea orientalis Baill.

A shrub. It loses its leaves during the year. It grows 6 m high. It can lie along the ground. There are 8-16 pairs of leaflets. They are 2-4 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. The flowering stalk is 6 cm long. The flowers have a sweet lemon scent. The petals are white to yellow. The fruit is a follicle. It is reddish-brown. It is 2 cm long by 1 cm wide. The seed is 1.6 cm long by 0.8 cm wide. It has a bright red layer around it.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in dry thickets and forests. It grows between 200-1,600 m altitude. It grows on termite mounds.

The dried leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable. They are dried in the sun, pounded and sieved and the powder put into hot water and stirred and boiled to make a thick vegetable paste that is then eaten with other foods. Caution: Often when leaves are dried this removes a poison.

Plants can be grown by seeds or cuttings.