Mussaenda ROXBURGHII Hook. f.


Synonym : -
Bangla Name : Chauri-chonri, Chung-faing-la (Marma), Gach ranitak (Chakma).
English Name : -
Family : Rubiaceae
Disease : Boils, jaundice and headache.
Description : A suberect shrub. Leaves short-petioled, oblong-lanceolate, 10-15 cm long, glabrous above. Cymes very dense, many-flowered, corolla silky, tube narrow, lobes very small with filiform tips. Berries glabrous, crowded with the calyx-lobes.
Distribution : Hill forests of Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts and Sylhet.
Chemical Constituents : -
Uses : Leaf juice is used to eject pus from boils. Chakma prescribe leaf juice along with cow milk in jaundice. Root paste is used in headache.
Habit : Under shrub