Zanthoxylum NITIDUM (Roxb.) DC.
| Synonym : | Fagara nitida Roxb. Fagara hamiltoniana (Wall.) Engl. Zanthoxylum hamiltonianum Wall. ex Hook.f. |
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| Bangla Name : | Kankoibatna |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Rutaceae |
| Disease : | Stimulation |
| Description : | A large evergreen, scandent shrub, armed with recurved prickles. Leaves imparipinnate, 20-40 cm long, rachis armed with recurved prickles on the back, leaflets 5-7, oblong to ovate-oblong, 5-15 cm long, abruptly and rather long acuminate. Flowers small, dull-white, shortly pedicelled in slender, puberulous, axillary, fascicled panicles, 7.5- 10 cm long. Fruit obliquely ovoid, the size of a pepper-kernel. |
| Distribution : | In the forests of Sylhet. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Essential oil isolated from seeds contain ?-phellandrene, phenylethyl acetate, methyl cinnamate, linalool, an unknown carbonyl compound and a solid compound. Bark contans nitidine (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1990). |
| Uses : | The plant is aromatic and stimulant. Roots are used as fish poison. |
| Habit : | Shrub |