Category: Herbal Medicine

AFRICAN SAUSAGE TREE

 

AFRICAN SAUSAGE TREE

 

 KINGELIA AFRICANA (Lam.) Benth.

Kigelia aethiopica Decne

Kigelia pinnata DC.

 

Local names: African sausage tree, cucumber tree (Engl.).

 

The African sausage tree is found in cultivation in Manila and in Los Baños, Laguna Province. It is a native of West Tropical Africa.

 

This recently introduced plant is a wide-spreading, deciduous tree about 10 meters in height. The leaves are alternate and odd pinnate. The leaflets are opposite, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 8 to 16 centimeters long, and pointed or blunt at the tip. The flowers are red, noctural, and borne in panicles on very long, pendulous pedicels. The calyx is 2.5 to 3 centimeters long, usually 5-toothed, or lobed. The corolla is 10 to 12 centimeters long, the tube is rather slender and the limb, broadly bell-shaped, somewhat curved, and 5-lobed. The fruit is hard, grayish-brown, scurfy, large, oblong or oblong-cylindric, 20 to 30 centimeters in length, indehiscent, and hanging on very long peduncles. Continue reading “AFRICAN SAUSAGE TREE”

ADLAI

ADLAI

 

COIX LACHRYMA-JOBI Linn.

Coix lachryma Linn.

Coix agrestis Lour.

Coix exaltata Jacq.

 

Local names: Abukai (Iv.); adlai (Bis.); agagai (Iv.); agda (Ig.); aglai (C. Bis.); alimudias (P. Bis.); apagi (Ig.); atakai (Ilk., Bon.); balantakan (Pamp.); barubaioko (Bik.); bintikai (Bik.); bitogan (Bag.); dalai (Sub.); damau (C. Bis.); glias (Sub.); kalabugau (Buk.); kambot (Ting.); katayan (Ig.); katigbi (C. Bis.); kibaoung (If.); koldasan (Bik.); kudlasan (Tag.); lamudias (P. Bis.); lias (Sub.); paias (P. Bis., Bag.); palias (P. Bis.); pintaka (C. Bis.); tidbi (S. L., Bis.); tigbi (Bik., Tag.); tiguas (Sul.); tikaian (Bon.); job’s tears (Eng.).

The adlai is common throughout the Philippines in the settled areas, at low and medium altitudes, in most or all islands and provinces. It is a native of the old World and is now pantropic in distribution. Continue reading “ADLAI”

Adlabong

ADLABONG 

 

 LOBELIA NICOTIANAEFOLIA Heyne

Local names: Adlabong (Ig.); balyongyong (Bon.); balinyungyung (Bon.); katlabung (Ig.); kanyuong (Ig.); luñgog-luñgog (Bon.); subasob (Bon.).

Adlabong occurs in these Islands only in Bontoc, Ifugao, Benguet, Lepanto Subprovinces; and Zambales Provinces in Luzon, in damp thickets and ravines, at an altitude of 1,200 to 2,300 meters. It also occurs in India. Continue reading “Adlabong”

ADENOSTYLIS STRATEUMATICA

 

 ADENOSTYLIS STRATEUMATICA (Linn.) Ames.

Orchis strateumatica Linn.

Spiranthes strateumatica Lindl.

Adenostylis integerrima Blume

Pterygodium sulcatum Roxb.

Tripleura pallida Lindl.

Zeurine emarginata Lindl.

Zeaurine integerrina Lindl.

Zeaurine membranacea Lindl.

Corycium humile Herb.

Neottia strateumatica R. Br.

Zeaurine bracteata Wight

Zeaurine brevifolia Wight.

Zeaurine robusta Wight.

Zeaurine tripleura Lindl.

Zeaurine procumbens Blume

Zeaurine strateumatica Schltr.

Zeaurine sp.

 

This orchid is found in the forests at low altitudes in Mindanao (Misamis and Agusan Provinces). It also occurs in Afghanistan, India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, China, Assam, Japan, Java, and Amboina. Continue reading “ADENOSTYLIS STRATEUMATICA”