Suregada multiflora
(A.Juss.) Baill., Etude Euphorb. 396. 1858. Gelonium multiflorum
A.Juss., Euphorb. Gen. 111, t. 10, f. 31A. 1824; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 459. 1887; Gamble, Fl.
Madras 2(7): 1343. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 940. 1957). G. bifarium Roxb. ex Willd., Sp. Pl. ed. 4, 4: 831.
1806, p. p.; Hook.f., l. c. 459. 1887. G. fasciculatum Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 832. 1832.
Beng.: Ban-naranga; Urdu: Khakra
Shrubs or trees, 2 - 12 m tall, entirely glabrous. Leaves broadly elliptic, oblong-elliptic to suborbicular, cuneate, acute to obtuse at base and slightly decurrent into petioles, entire along margins, rounded to obtuse or subacuminate at apex, 5 - 25 x 2.5 - 10 cm, coriaceous to chartaceous, pellucid-punctate; lateral nerves 5 - 8 pairs; petioles 3 - 7 mm long. Inflorescences unisexual, leaf-opposed, fasciculate lax cymes, sometimes shortly pedunculate. Male flowers: pedicels 5 - 10 mm long; sepals 5, suborbicular, ca 3 x 2.5 mm; stamens many; glands many between filaments. Female flowers: pedicels 5 - 10 mm long; sepals as in male but larger, up to 5 mm long; disc annular; ovary ovoid, ca 2 mm in diam., 2 or 3-locular; styles 2 or 3, ca 1 mm long, bifid. Fruits capsular or subdrupaceous, globose or subglobose, 9 - 15 mm in diam., unlobed to lobed, 2 or 3-locular, orange-brown, tardily dehiscent.
Fl. & Fr. Feb. - Sept.
Distrib. India: Evergreen forests of inland hills and beach forests, up to 1500 m altitude. West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Indo-China, Thailand and Malaysia.
Uses. Ripe fruits after boiling in mustard oil applied to boils by the inhabitants of Sunderbans area of West Bengal.
Shrubs or trees, 2 - 12 m tall, entirely glabrous. Leaves broadly elliptic, oblong-elliptic to suborbicular, cuneate, acute to obtuse at base and slightly decurrent into petioles, entire along margins, rounded to obtuse or subacuminate at apex, 5 - 25 x 2.5 - 10 cm, coriaceous to chartaceous, pellucid-punctate; lateral nerves 5 - 8 pairs; petioles 3 - 7 mm long. Inflorescences unisexual, leaf-opposed, fasciculate lax cymes, sometimes shortly pedunculate. Male flowers: pedicels 5 - 10 mm long; sepals 5, suborbicular, ca 3 x 2.5 mm; stamens many; glands many between filaments. Female flowers: pedicels 5 - 10 mm long; sepals as in male but larger, up to 5 mm long; disc annular; ovary ovoid, ca 2 mm in diam., 2 or 3-locular; styles 2 or 3, ca 1 mm long, bifid. Fruits capsular or subdrupaceous, globose or subglobose, 9 - 15 mm in diam., unlobed to lobed, 2 or 3-locular, orange-brown, tardily dehiscent.
Fl. & Fr. Feb. - Sept.
Distrib. India: Evergreen forests of inland hills and beach forests, up to 1500 m altitude. West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Indo-China, Thailand and Malaysia.
Uses. Ripe fruits after boiling in mustard oil applied to boils by the inhabitants of Sunderbans area of West Bengal.
