Clerodendron inerme

Genus species: Clerodendron inerme
Family: Verbenaceae

English name: Glory Bower genus

Chamorro: Lodugao
Chuukese name: Ulo, Apuoch, Etiu, Pucherik
Kosraen name: Kwacwak
Pohnpeian name: Ilau
Yapese name: I'ruch

Growth form: shrub
Growth location: terrestrial
Growth environment: cultivated garden
Growth zone: Tropical

Height:12-15 ft. (3.6-4.7 m)

Propagation Methods:From softwood cuttings & semi-hardwood cuttings

Stem: Woody, smooth
Leaf arrangement: Simple, opposite
Stipule: Absent
Petioles: 0.5 to 1.0 cm long.
Leaf blade: Ovate to elliptical shape, 5 to 10 cm long, acute to acuminate tip, green, smooth slightly shiny upper surface, pinnate venation, margin is entire.
Inflorescence: Cyme or umbel usually comprised of three flowers joined at a common base point.
Flower: Rotationally symmetric, salverform, white--symmetry, sex, arrangement of male and female flowers if unisexual
Calyx: Green, fused and reduced to a cup-like structure surrounding the ovary.
Corolla: Fused white corolla with five lobes.
Stamens: Four reddish purple, upwardly curved stamens
Ovary: Ovary is inferior.
Pistil: A single redish purple, upwardly curved style, style splits into a two forked stigma.
Fruit: green to brown obovoid fruit, 1 to 1.5 cm long which splits into four one-seeded nutlets at maturity
Cultural usage: Leaves used for fever and cough, leaves are also used in conjunction with other plants leaves for ghost diseases.

Vitex negundo निर्गुन्डी

Botanical Name : Vitex Negundo
Family Name : Verbenaceae
Common Name : Chaste Tree, Huang Ping, Gattilier Incise, Huang Ching, Lenggundi, Man Ching, Negundo Chastetree
Part Used : Whole Plant
Habitat : Wasteland up to 2000 metres in the himalayas
Product offered : Seeds, RootsUses : The leaves are astringent, febrifuge, sedative, tonic and vermifuge. They are useful in dispersing swellings of the joints from acute rheumatism and of the testes from suppressed gonorrhoea. The juice of the leaves is used for removing foetid discharges and worms from ulcers, whilst an oil prepared with the leaf juice is applied to sinuses and scrofulous sores. A decoction of the stems is used in the treatment of burns and scalds.The dried fruit is vermifuge and is also used in the treatment of angina, colds, coughs, rheumatic difficulties etc. The fresh berries are pounded to a pulp and used in the form of a tincture for the relief of paralysis, pains in the limbs, weakness etc. The root is expectorant, febrifuge and tonic. It is used in the treatment of colds and rheumatic ailments. The plant is said to be a malarial preventative and is also used in the treatment of bacterial dysentery - extracts of the leaves have shown bactericidal and antitumor activity. The leaves are used to repel insects in grain stores. Extracts of the leaves have insecticidal activity. The fresh leaves are burnt with grass as a fumigant against mosquitoes. A decoction of the leaves and the vapours are employed in baths for treatment of febrile, catarrhal and rheumatic affections. The flowers are astringent and are used in fever, diarrhoea and liver complaints.