Botany
Kalai is a tall forest tree growing to a height of 40 meters with a diameter of 70 centimeters. Leaves are ovate-oblong, 10 to 15 centimeters long, 2 to 3 centimeters wide, with a pointed base and tip. Inflorescence is lateral on short hairy stalks. Flowers are small, yellow and odorless. Sepals are short, with petals about 6 millimeters long. Fruit is brown, usually single, large, hard and woody, ellipsoid or subglobose, 6 to 9 centimeter long.

Distribution
In forests at low and medium altitudes.

Properties
Considered febrifuge, emmenagogue and anti-dysenteric.

Parts utilized
Fruit, leaves and bark.

Uses
Nutrition
Ripe fruit is edible; eaten raw.
Folkloric
- Boiled fruit used for fevers.
- Decoction of fruit used for amenorrhea.
- Decoction of bark with dried leaves of garlic used for urticaria.
- Decoction of fruit used as antidysenteric.
- Decoction of bark used for diabetes.
Others
Ornamental cultivation.
Wood: Used for making baseball bats and bowling pins.

Availability
Wild-crafed.