Suregada angustifolia
(Müll.Arg.) Airy Shaw in Kew Bull. 23: 128. 1969; Manilal &
Sivar. in Sci. & Cult. 41: 437. 1975. Gelonium angustifolium Müll.Arg. in DC., Prodr. 15(2): 1128.
1866. G. lanceolatum auct. non Willd. 1806: Roxb., Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 3: 831. 1832; Hook.f., Fl.
Brit. India 5: 459. 1887, p. p.; Gamble, Fl. Madras 2(7): 1343. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 940. 1957).
Tam.: Kakaipalai; Tel.: Sapranji, Suragada.
Trees, dioecious, evergreen, 6 - 10 m tall; branches glabrous. Leaves broadly elliptic, obovate to oblanceolate, acute at base, obtuse, subacute to subacuminate at apex, spinulosedentate along margins, 5 - 15 x 3 - 6 cm, coriaceous, shiny, pellucid-punctate; lateral nerves 6 - 8 pairs; petioles 5 - 8 mm long; stipules caducous. Male flowers: 5 - 8 in axillary subumbellate tightly bracteolate clusters, ca 5 mm across; pedicels ca 5 mm long; calyx-lobes 5 or 6, concave, 2 - 3 mm long, scaly; stamens 15 - 25, mixed with rugose glands; filaments ca 1.5 mm long. Female flowers: 3 - 5 in axillary leaf-opposed pairs of clusters, ca 3 mm across; calyx-lobes 5 or 6, ca 3 mm across, ovate, finely ciliate; outer 3 subacute, ca 2.5 mm long; inner 2 smaller, obtuse; disc cupular; ovary globose, 2 - 3 mm across, 3-locular; styles 3, 1 – 1.5 mm long. Fruits ovoid, deeply 3-lobed, keeled on lobes, smooth, 1 – 1.5 cm across; cocci falling off the persistent columella.
Fl. Jan. - April; Fr. March - June.
Distrib. India: Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats, from coastal areas to 750 m altitude. Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala (Kozhikode Dist., Manilal & Sivarajan, l. c.).
Sri Lanka.
Uses. Roots find use in curing fever by tribes of Sriharikota Island of Andhra Pradesh.
Trees, dioecious, evergreen, 6 - 10 m tall; branches glabrous. Leaves broadly elliptic, obovate to oblanceolate, acute at base, obtuse, subacute to subacuminate at apex, spinulosedentate along margins, 5 - 15 x 3 - 6 cm, coriaceous, shiny, pellucid-punctate; lateral nerves 6 - 8 pairs; petioles 5 - 8 mm long; stipules caducous. Male flowers: 5 - 8 in axillary subumbellate tightly bracteolate clusters, ca 5 mm across; pedicels ca 5 mm long; calyx-lobes 5 or 6, concave, 2 - 3 mm long, scaly; stamens 15 - 25, mixed with rugose glands; filaments ca 1.5 mm long. Female flowers: 3 - 5 in axillary leaf-opposed pairs of clusters, ca 3 mm across; calyx-lobes 5 or 6, ca 3 mm across, ovate, finely ciliate; outer 3 subacute, ca 2.5 mm long; inner 2 smaller, obtuse; disc cupular; ovary globose, 2 - 3 mm across, 3-locular; styles 3, 1 – 1.5 mm long. Fruits ovoid, deeply 3-lobed, keeled on lobes, smooth, 1 – 1.5 cm across; cocci falling off the persistent columella.
Fl. Jan. - April; Fr. March - June.
Distrib. India: Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats, from coastal areas to 750 m altitude. Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala (Kozhikode Dist., Manilal & Sivarajan, l. c.).
Sri Lanka.
Uses. Roots find use in curing fever by tribes of Sriharikota Island of Andhra Pradesh.
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