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Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack

മരമുല്ല

Family : RUTACEAE

Synonym : Murraya exotica L.

Common Names : Lake View Jasmine, Kattumulla

Flowering Period : March – September

Distribution : Indo-Malaysia and Australia

Habitat : Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, also grown in the plains

Uses : Ornamental, aromatherapeutic. In Chinese medicine, a decoction of the leaves is taken to treat bruises, chronic dysentery, stomach ache, swellings and skin irritations. It is also used to relieve pain. Leaves are also used in other countries as a tonic, to cure toothache and herpes and to expel tapeworms in Malaysia; as a stimulant in Indonesia; to increase the menstrual flow and to treat diarrhoea and dysentery in the Philippines; and for fever and dysentery in Indochina.

Key Characters :

Shrubs or small trees; bark pale greyish to white. Leaves 3-7 foliolate; leaflets ovate to elliptic-ovate or rhomboid, shortly acuminate at apex, attenuate at base, glabrous. Panicles few-flowered, from the axils of upper leaves; peduncle 2-3 cm long. Calyx lobes 5, ovate. Petals 5, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, white. Stamens 10. Disc annular. Ovary oblong, 2 celled; ovules 1 in each cell; stigma capitate. Berry ellipsoid, acute, red.