Family : Bignoniaceae

Synonyms : Stereospermum chelonoides

English : Trumpet flower tree

Hindi : Paral

Gujarati : Padal

Sanskrit : Patala

Part used : Bark

Botanical Description: A large decicious tree with a straight trunk, and fairly smooth yellowish brown nark, leaves imparipinnate, large, clustered towards the end of the branchlets, leaflets 3-6 pairs, short stalked often unequal sided at the base, main nerves 8-10 pairs; flowers yellow, tinged with red, fragrant, in lax drooping terminal cymose panicles; fruits capsules, cylinderic, slender, curved somewhat rough with elevated white specks; seeds winged at each end, wings membranous, the roots are dull brown, cylinderical, hard and heavy with transversley extended lenticels. Flowering and fruiting from December to May.
It occurs throughout India.

Modern Pharmacological Action: Not much reported