Pterygota ALATA (Roxb.) R. Br.
| Synonym : | Sterculia alata Roxb. Clompanus alata (Roxb.) Kuntze. |
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| Bangla Name : | Buddha Narikel, Kashmiri Badam, Pagla Gach, Narikeli (Chittagong). ,Kufala (Chakma). |
| English Name : | Buddha-coconut. |
| Family : | Sterculiaceae |
| Disease : | Narcotic. |
| Description : | A very tall deciduous tree with narrow conical crown and horizontal branches, young parts golden-pubescent. Leaves simple, 10-25 cm long, usually crowded at the end of branchlets, broadly ovate, cordate, acute or shortly acuminate. Flowers brownish yellow, about 2.5 cm across, in subpanicled rusty-tomentose, few-flowered racemes from the old axils below the leaves. Fruit comprising of follicles, large woody, about 12 cm in diam. |
| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Cox’s Bazar and Sylhet. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Sterculynic acid has been isolated from the seed oil, and identified as 8,9-methyleneoctadec-8-en-17-ynoic acid (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1990). |
| Uses : | Seeds have narcotic properties and used as a substitute for opium. |
| Habit : | Tree |