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 |