Barringtonia RACEMOSA (L.) Spreng.
| Synonym : | Barringtonia elongata Korth. Butonica apiculata Miers Butonica rosata (Sonn.) Miers Michelia apiculata (Miers) Kuntze Stravadium racemosum (L.) Sweet Megadendron pallidum Miers |
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| Bangla Name : | Kunda, Samudraphal, Kumia, Kunds, Samudra, Dudphal, Baru (Sunderbans |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Barringtoniaceae |
| Disease : | Febrifuge, deobstruent, cooling, coughs, asthma, diarrhea,skin, colic, opthalmia, diarrhea and jaundice. |
| Description : | A small, glabrous, evergreen tree with fairly straight trunk and spreading branches with many large leaf-scars. Leaves 25 cm long, membranous, obovate-obolong or oblanceolate, lightly crenate-denticulate. Flowers distant, in pendulous many-flowered racemes, 30-60 cm long. Fruit ovoid, 4 cm long, obscurely quadrangular below when quite ripe. |
| Distribution : | Occurs in the Sundarbans and other coastal forests. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Bark contains ellagic acid and its mono-, di- and tri-O-Me derivatives. Flowers contain cyanidin- and delphenidin-3-sambubiosides (Asolkar et al., 1992). Fruits contain saponin – barringtonin, composed of rhamnose, and baringtogenol (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1 |
| Uses : | Roots are febrifuge, deobstruent and cooling. Fruits are efficacious in coughs, asthma and diarrhoea. The pulverised fruits are used as a snuff, and combined with other remedies is applied externally in skin diseases. The seeds are vermifuge and used in c |
| Habit : | Tree |