Synonym : | Sirium myrtifolium L. |
Bangla Name : | Chandan,Nay-stha-pru(Rakhaing),Nitha(Tripura). |
English Name : | Sandal wood tree. |
Family : | Santalaceae |
Disease : | Abortion, anaemia, chicken pox, diabetes, jaundice, leismoniasis, marasmus, navel-string infection, |
Description : | Evergreen trees, bark surface dark grey to nearly black, rough with short vertical cracks. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate, elliptic, elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, base acute or round, apex acute, margin entire.Flowers bisexual, reddish-purple, in axillary and terminal paniculate cymes, much shorter than leaves; tepals 5; stamens 5, alternates with disc; ovary superior later half inferior at the time of flowering, globose, ovules 2-3, pendulous from below the long, acuminate, central column, stigma 3 lobed. Fruit a drupe, globose, blackish-purple, annulate above, beaked with the basal part of the style; seed one. |
Distribution : | - |
Chemical Constituents : | Leaves, fruits and seeds contain santalbic acid,palmitic acid,oleic acid, linoleic acid and sugars. Fruits yield betulic acid and ?-sitosterol and a fatty oil. Betulinic acid, - sitosterol, glucose, fructose and sucrose from leaves. Heartwood yields essen |
Uses : | This plant is used in Abortion, anaemia, chicken pox, diabetes, jaundice, leismoniasis, marasmus, navel-string infection, ophthalmia, respiratory troubles. |
Habit : | Tree |