Firmiana COLORATA R. Br.
| Synonym : | Erythropsis colorata (Roxb.) Burkill Firmiana rubriflora Kosterm. Karaka colorata (Roxb.) Raf. Sterculia colorata Roxb. |
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| Bangla Name : | Udal, Ujial (Chittagong), Pata gota (Dhaka-Mymensingh). ,Kra-sam-baing (Marma): Pithok (Chakma), Krasangban (Mogh), Bol-ajun (Garo), |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Sterculiaceae |
| Disease : | Sores,cholera and jaundice. |
| Description : | A medium – sized, spreading, deciduous tree with fluted stem. Leaves crowded at the end of branchlets, 10-25 cm long and nearly as broad, deeply 3-5 lobed. Flowers scarlet or orange red, solitary or in clusters of 2-3 in short panicles from the axils of fallen leaves, petals 0, calyx tubular, club-shaped, covered with orange coloured down. Fruits 1-5, membranous flattened follicles, 5-7.6 cm long, opening much before maturity with 1-2 roundish seeds attached on the margins. |
| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts and Cox’s Bazar. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contain glucuronides of apigenin, luteolin, luteolin glucoronide, scutellarein and vitexin. Plants also contain 6-glucuronosyloxy luteolin and apigenin- 8C-gluside (Asolkar et al., 1992, Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1993). |
| Uses : | Plant is used in sores and cholera. In Chittagong Hill Tracts, bark and root juice mixed with goat milk is given in jaundice by the Marma tribe |
| Habit : | Tree |