aidia DENSIFLORA (Wall.) Masam.
| Synonym : | Randia densiflora (Wall.) Benth. Cupia oppositifolia (Roxb.) DC. Gynopachis oblongata Miq. Stylocoryna oppositifolia (Roxb.) Steud. |
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| Bangla Name : | Pondal (Dinajpur, Santal). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Rubiaceae |
| Disease : | Fever and paludism. |
| Description : | A small unarmed evergreen tree about 12 m high, branchlets opposite, quadrangular. Leaves in two opposite vertical rows, elliptic-oblong, 10-18 cm long. Flowers 1 cm long, white or yellowish, in leaf-opposed, subsessile, much-branched cymes, 6.3 cm wide. Fruit a berry, about 7 mm long, ovoid or globose. |
| Distribution : | In deciduous and evergreen forests of Sylhet and Dinajpur |
| Chemical Constituents : | - |
| Uses : | In Indo-China the bark is given in the so-called “forest fever”. In Cambodia, the wood is prescribed in the treatment of paludism. |
| Habit : | Tree |