OF THE WEEK 14TH WEEK 05-05-2015 glutinosa (Lour.) C.B.Rob.

Botanical Name : Uses (Lour.) Bark : Stem bark used as relieving pain, arousing sexual C.B.Rob. power & good for stomach disease. It is considered to be Synonyms : mildly astringent, include treatment of diarrohea & dysen- Sebifera glutinosa Lour. tery. It is also widely used as an emollient and demulcent. Litsea chinensis Lam. L. sebifera (Willd.) Pers. : Leaf paste used as demulcent, mild astringent, L. laurifolia (Jacq.) F.M. Bailey styptic, emollient and also used for dysentery, diarrohea, Tetranthera laurifolia Jacq. bruises, cut wounds & hemorrhages. Family : Local Name Root : Root extracts used as refrigerant, anodyne, anti- Odia & Bihar: Medha. inflammatory, antidiarrhoeal, anti- Bark Hindi : Menda dysentric, emollient, emmenagogue and also useful in trauma, fracture Bengali : Kakur chita etc. Tamil : Nara mamidi Flowers Fruit : Oil from the berries is used for rheumatism. A normal tree of Litsea glutinosa Habitat Description Tropical deciduous or Litsea glutinosa is an evergreen or deciduous tree up to 20 m tall. Source: Evergreen forests. Source: Bark : Bark smooth, young branchlets yellow, tomentose and slightly rough in old trees. Saxena, H.O. & Brahmam, M. (1994). The

Distribution Flora of Orissa, Vol. III, pp: 1565-66. Leaf : alternate, simple; petiolate, gray-yellow tomentose. Leaf blade elliptic, , Sri Lanka, , Bhu- tan, Myanmar, Nepal, Philip- elliptic-lanceolate, oblong or lanceolate, apex obtuse to acuminate or rounded, surface glabrous or pubescent, base obtuse or acute. Unicostate reticulate venation. Swain B.K & Das S.K. (2007) Visual pines, Thailand, Vietnam. Ma- laysia, . In Odisha it is guide to wild medicinal of Orissa, Flower : Inflorescence umbels solitary or several on short branchlets, few flowered. pp 243. found in Bhitarkania, May- Flowers white or yellowish in colour. Peduncles pubescent or glabrescent, axillary or urbhanj, Parlakhemundi, Sam- from the axils of caduceus bracts on the balpur and Angul. new shoots below the leaves; pedicels Rath. B (2004) Medicinal properties of very short; bracts concave orbicular. Peri- Litsea glutinosa LOUR. & L. monopetala Flowering Time : June-July. anth-tube minute in flower, thickened and PERS. e-planet 2(2):94-95. Fruiting Time : Sept-Nov. disc-like in continuation with pedicel. Stamens 9-20 with long villous filaments;

glands fleshy on villous stalks. www.envis.frlht.org

Conservation Status Fruit : Drupe purplish black, globose, www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Litsea glutinosa pedicel, slightly thickened at apex. Seeds Fruits Vulnerable straight.