Ixora CUNEIFOLIA Roxb.


Synonym : Ixora rosea Wall.
Ixora wallichii Wight & Arn.
Bangla Name : Kesua gachh (B), Kha Muchye, Kayah Museya (Marma)
English Name : -
Family : Rubiaceae
Disease : Fevers
Description : An evergreen shrub. Leaves opposite, 15-22 cm long, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, shortly acuminate, entire. Flowers rather small, white, in short peduncled sub-sessile cymes. Berries ovoid, the size of a large pea.
Distribution : In evergreen forests of Sylhet and Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Chemical Constituents : -
Uses : In Indo-China infusion of the leaves is given in fevers.
Habit : Shrub