Aglaia havilandii Ridley

A small to medium-sized, sometimes fairly large tree up to 20(-40) m tall, bole branchless for up to 15 m, up to 60 cm in diameter, with steep buttresses up to 1.5 m high, bark surface dark reddish-brown or greenish-brown, inner bark magenta. Leaflets (5-)7-11(-15), subopposite to alternate, with 6-19 pairs of secondary veins, sometimes pitted, with numerous reddish-brown to pale orange-brown stellate hairs or scales, especially on the veins below; content. Flowers 5-merous, anthers 5, style-head ovoid or depressed globose, with 2 small apical lobes or a central depression. Fruit indehiscent, 2-locular, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, densely hairy. Seed 1, surrounded by the edible aril.

A. elliptica is locally common on various soils.

A. elliptica is locally common in primary and secondary evergreen forest, swamp forest, along rivers or roads and in periodically inundated locations.

Food: Fruit are edible, taste resembles that of the cranberry. Medicine: Bathing in water boiled with the bark is used against tumours, whereas the leaves are applied to wounds. Timber: The wood is hard and durable, used as timber in the Philipppines, but the supply is scarce. The wood is used e.g. for furniture, general construction and agricultural implements.