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Family Ulmaceae
Dulsis
Gironniera cuspiddata (Blume) Kurz

Scientific names Common names
Gironniera cuspiddata (Blume) Kurz Dulsis (Bag.)
Gironniera reticulata Thw.  
Gironniera curranii Merr.  
Gironniera nitida Benth.  
Aphananthe cuspidata Planch.  
Aphananthe lissophylla Gagnep.  
Galumpita cuspidata Blume  
Cyclostemon cuspidatus Blume  

Botany
Dulsis is a small tree growing to a height of about 15 meters, which is smooth throughout. Leaves are somewhat leathery, ovate-lanceolate and elliptic-lanceolate, 8 to 12 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, the base rounded and the apex pointed. Flowers are dioecious. Male flowers are in short, peduncled cymes, with five broad, obtuse, imbricate sepals. Stamens are 5, erect; and the pistillode wooly. Female flowers are axillary and solitary; sepals are narrow and acute. Drupe is usually 2-keeled, 12 to 18 mm long, and ovoid; the pedicel is as long as the fruit; the endocarp, hard.

Distribution
In forests at medium altitudes, in the Camarines Provinces of Luzon, and Davao in Mindanao.
Occurs in India and Ceylon to Java and Celebes.

Constituents
Yields a crystalline substance, lime methyl-indole or skatole.

Properties
Depurative.

Parts used
Bark.

Uses

Folkloric
Bark taken internally with lemon juice as a purifier of blood, for itches and other cutaneous eruptions.
In Sri Lanka, used as depurative; for eruptions and itches.
In India, used as blood-purifier in itchy and cutaneous eruptions; mixed with lemon juice and applied externally.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

May 2011

IMAGE SOURCE: Digitally modified / PD / Pterospermum diversifolium Blanco1.182-original.png / Flora de Filipinas / 1880 - 1883 / Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A) / Wikimedia Commons
IMAGE SOURCE: Psilotum nudum / File:Psilotum.jpg / Eric Guinther / December 2003 / GNU Free Documentation License / Wikipedia

Additional Sources and Suggested Readings
(1)
Gironniera reticulata / Indian Medicinal Plants


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