Hymenodictyon ORIXENSIS (Roxb.) Mabberly
| Synonym : | Hymenodictyon excelsum (Roxb.)Wall. Benteca rheedei Roem. & Schult. Cinchona orixensis Roxb. Exostema philippicum Schult. Hymenodictyon thyrsiflorum Wall. |
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| Bangla Name : | Bhui-kadam, Kali-kadam, Phuti-kadam, Bhaman, Dhauli, Bhutum (Mymensingh, Sylhet). ,Khujeva, Khujai (Marma), Bol-dikam, Mebol (Garo), Puron Cha (Tanchangya). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Rubiaceae |
| Disease : | Astringent, febrifuge, antiperiodic, appetite, tumours, herpes, fever and jaundice. |
| Description : | A medium-sized deciduous tree, bark brownish grey. Leaves opposite, 10-25 cm long, elliptic, ovate or ovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate, membranous, pubescent. Flowers small, white, crowded on the spiciform branches of erect terminal panicles, bracts leaflike, persistant. Capsules 1.3-1.8 cm long, ellipsoid, on stout decurved pedicels, dehiscent. |
| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sylhet, Dhaka-Tangail, Dinajpur. |
| Chemical Constituents : | The stem bark contains tannin, toxic alkaloid, hymenodictine, a bitter substance, aesculin, an apioglucoside of scopoletin, hymexelsin (Ghani, 2003). Anthraquinones, rubiadin and its methyl ether, lucidin, nordamnacanthal, damnacanthal, 2-benzylzanthopurp |
| Uses : | Bark is astringent, febrifuge and antiperiodic, increases appetite, cures tumours. The powdered wood is used in herpes. Root juice mixed with the juice of Callicarpa tomentosa bark is given for fever by the Marma tribe in Chittagong Hill Tracts. Marma of |
| Habit : | Tree |