Butea MONOSPERMA (Lam.) Taub.
| Synonym : | Butea braamania Dc. Butea frondosa Roxb. Erythrina monosperma Lam. Plaso monosperma (Lam.) Kuntze Rudolphia frondosa (Willd.) Poir. |
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| Bangla Name : | Palas, Kingsuk, Kinaka. |
| English Name : | Parrot tree, Flame of the forest. |
| Family : | Fabaceae |
| Disease : | aphrodisiac, laxative, anthelmintic, dysentery, piles and hydrocele and cough. |
| Description : | A medium-sized deciduous tree. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets 10-20 cm long, coriaceous, terminal one roundish with a rhomboid base, lateral smaller, obliquely rounded at the base. Flowers large, in rigid racemes, 15 cm long, Calyx 13 mm long, dark olive green, densely velvety outside, corolla 3.8-5 cm long, orange. Pods oblong, flat, thin, 12.5-20 cm long. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sal forests of Dhaka-Mymensingh, and cultivated elsewhere. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Chief constituent of the plant is a gum, called ‘Butea gum or Bengal kino’, which exudes from natural or artificial scars on the bark. The gum contains leucocyanictin. Bark also contains kinnotannic acid and gallic acid, flavonoid, glycosides, butin, butr |
| Uses : | The bark is aphrodisiac, laxative and anthelmintic, useful in dysentery, piles and hydrocele, weak decoction of bark is useful in catarrh, cold and cough. Gum of the bark is an excellent astringent to the bowels, useful in diarrhoea, dysentery, stomatitis |
| Habit : | Tree |