Aglaia barberi Gamble

A generally small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall, bole usually short, up to 50 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 1.5 m high, bark surface reddish-brown, yellowish-brown or greyish-green, flaking to expose the orange-brown bark beneath, inner bark pink or brown. Leaflets 5-9(-11), subopposite to alternate, with 5-16 pairs of secondary veins, usually with numerous pits on both surfaces, glabrous above, below with few to numerous reddish or pale brownish stellate hairs and scales or peltate scales with an irregular or fimbriate margin. Flowers with 5 calyx-lobes, petals 5(-7), anthers 5, style-head ovoid or depressed globose, longitudinally ridged. Fruit indehiscent, 3-locular.

A. edulis occurs scattered and is comparatively rare. It is found in primary evergreen forest along the seashore on sandstone or sandy loam, but also in secondary forest,

Food: The aril of the seed is edible. Medicine: The pericarp has medicinal properties, and is used against diarrhoea. Timber: The wood is used e.g. for boat, house and bridge building and agricultural implements, but supplies are limited.