194 THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PHILIPPINES 



Habitat. — Common on the seashore. Blooms in June. 



The V. Negundo is a small tree like the preceding, but when 

 it grows in the forest it develops to a tree of the first order, 

 yielding a valuable building wood called molave (Sp.) or more 

 properly molawin. Leaves compound with 5 leaflets. Secon- 

 dary petioles short. Flowers in dichotomous panicle. Fruit 

 like that of the foregoing species. 



Clerodendron infortunatum, L. (C. fortunatum, Blanco.) 



Nom. Vulg-. — Kasupagit, Gubat, Tag.; Salig-wak, Vis. 



Uses. — The fresh juice of the leaves is used in India as a 

 vermifuge, according to K. L. Dey ; it is also used as a bitter 

 tonic in malarial fever, especially of children. As a tonic and 

 antipyretic it is certainly worthy of recommendation. 



Dr. Bholanauth Bose calls attention to this plant as a good 

 substitute for Ophelia chirata, DC. as a tonic and antipyretic. 



The infusion of the bruised leaves (10 grams to water 300 

 cc.) is given up to 200 cc. a day in 3 or 4 doses ; the tincture 

 (leaves 60 grams, alcohol 90 Jfc, 500 cc.) is given up to 10 

 grams a day in 5 or 6 doses. 



Botanical Description. — A shrub with nearly round 

 stem; leaves opposite, ovate, oblong; acute, entire, slightly 

 downy. Flowers terminal in umbellate panicles, the umbellets 

 opposite and each bearing 3 flowerets. Calyx bluish, long, 

 tubular, somewhat expanded in the middle, divided in 5 parts. 

 Corolla twice as long as the calyx, tube filiform, limb 5-lobed. 

 Stamens didynamous, their lower parts grown to the tube of 

 the corolla. Filaments longer than the corolla. Ovary con- 

 ical. Style of same length as the stamens. Stigma bifid. 

 Berry dry, quadrate, depressed, the shell hard, 4 grooves, 4 

 cells, each containing a seed. 



Habitat. — Very common in Manila and in the forests. 



