Suregada MULTIFLORA (A. Juss.) Baill.
| Synonym : | Gelonium multiflorum Juss. Gelonium fascuculatum Roxb. Gelonium oxyphyllum Miq. Suregada glabra Roxb. Suregada tenuifolia (Ridl.) Croizat |
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| Bangla Name : | Chasesii (Chakma), Fa Choin Da (Marma). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Euphorbiaceae |
| Disease : | sore and stomach troubles |
| Description : | A small resinous evergreen tree, often shrubby, branchlets marked with scars of stipular lines. Bark grayish white, tubercled, closely vertically fissured. Leaves elongate-elliptic, 15-18 cm long, entire, glabrous, pellucid-dotted. Flowers diocious, yellowish, apetalous in pedunculate corymbs. Fruit a globose capsule, obscurely 3-lobed, about, 2.5 cm across, yellow when ripe. |
| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong Hill Tracts. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Multiflorenol, bauerenol and a new triterpene alcohol-epimultiflorenol has been isolated from the bark (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1990). |
| Uses : | The bark is used for sore and stomach troubles in Khagrachari. |
| Habit : | Tree |