Suregada MULTIFLORA (A. Juss.) Baill.


Synonym : Gelonium multiflorum Juss.
Gelonium fascuculatum Roxb.
Gelonium oxyphyllum Miq.
Suregada glabra Roxb.
Suregada tenuifolia (Ridl.) Croizat
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