Calophyllum INOPHYLLUM L.
| Synonym : | Balsamaria inophyllum Lour. Calophyllum bingator Roxb. Calophyllum blumei Wight Calophyllum spurium Choisy |
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| Bangla Name : | Punnag, Sultana champa, Katchampa, Panial, Punyal, Puinnal, (Noakhali), Golab (Barisal, Sunderbans). |
| English Name : | Alexandrian Laurel, Dilo oil tree. |
| Family : | Guttiferae |
| Disease : | orchitis, haemorrhages, purgative,ulcers,ulcers and wounds. |
| Description : | A medium-sized, evergreen, tree, with crooked trunk. Leaves 10-18 cm long, broadly elliptic, rounded at apex with very close lateral nerves. Flowers pure white, in lax, few-flowered racemes, 10-15 cm long. Fruit globose, 2.5-3.8 cm across. |
| Distribution : | Coastal forests of the country, especially Noakhali, Bhola and Patuakhali. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contain amentoflavone, friedelin, the triterpenes, canophyllal, canophyllol and canophyllic acid and derivatives of (+) - inophyllolide, called isophyllum A-E and P. Heartwood contains xanthones such as calophyllin, measuaxanthone and jacareubin, |
| Uses : | Bark is astringent, pounded bark is used topically in orchitis, useful in internal haemorrhages, and its juice is used as purgative. Decoction of the bark is employed as a lotion for indolent ulcers. The gum resin is considered emetic, purgative, vulnerar |
| Habit : | Tree |