| Synonym : | Sterculia scaphigera Wall.
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| Bangla Name : | Shampan, Pogan, Shogan, Sugan, Shampan-gulla (Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar). |
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| English Name : | - |
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| Family : | Sterculiaceae |
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| Disease : | Diarrhoea and dysentery. |
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| Description : | A tall glabrous, deciduous tree. Leaves oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded and strongly 3-nerved at base, on a 3.8-7.5 cm long petiole. Flowers 9-10 cm diam., on very short and thick puberulous jointed pedicels, forming rather short, robust, much-branched, puberulous panicles at the end of thick branchlets. Calyx pale orange or yellowish with a reddish base. Follicles 15-20 cm long, boat-shaped. |
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| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts and Cox’s Bazar. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | - |
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| Uses : | Fruits are used as a remedy for dysentery. In S.E. Asia fruits are macerated in water, when the outer shell or pericarp increases enormously in volume forming a large gelatinous mass. The jelly is sweetened and eaten as a delicacy, and is said to be a spe |
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| Habit : | Tree |
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