Cleome GYNANDRA L.
| Synonym : | Cleome pentaphylla L. Gynandropsis gynandra(L.) Briq. Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC. Cleome acuta Schumach. & Thonn. Cleome alliacea Blanco Gynandropsis triphylla DC. Pedicellaria triphylla (L.) Pax |
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| Bangla Name : | Hurhuria, Sada Hurhure. |
| English Name : | Spider Flower. |
| Family : | Capparidaceae |
| Disease : | Antiscorbutic, diaphoretic, stomachic, mild febrifuge, ascites, tumours, ulcers, pain, earache, spleen enlargement, fever, rubefacient, vesicant, rheumatism, neuralgia, headache, stiff neck, otalgia, earache, headache, anthelmintic, rubefacient and cough. |
| Description : | An annual branched herb, up to 1 m high. Leaves 3-5 foliolate, petioles sometimes armed with small distant prickles, leaflets subsessile, 2-4 cm long, elliptic-obovate, obtuse, acute or acuminate, cuneate at the base, pubescent on both sides. Flowers at first corymbose, elongating into a dense bracteate racemes, pedicels viscid-pubescent. Petals pale pink, 15 mm long, broadly obovate or suborbicular with a long claw. Capsule 5-9 cm long, viscid-pubescent, tapering at both ends. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, in waste places. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contain the flavonoids, centaureidin, kaempferol, quercetin, myricitrin, ?-and ?-amyrins, taraxasterol, ?-sitosterol and the fatty acids, capric, lauric, myristic, palmitic, palmitoleic, stearic, oleic and linoleic acids. Seeds contain glucocappari |
| Uses : | The plant possesses antiscorbutic, diaphoretic and emollient properties. The root is stomachic and mild febrifuge, good in ascites, tumours, ulcers, pain, earache, spleen enlargement and bilious fever. The bruished leaves are rubefacient and vesicant, app |
| Habit : | Herb |