Burmese eggplant

Burmese eggplant

(collection of compendium)

[synonym] mianqie (LingMi Dan Yao Jian), muqie (Yue Zhi).

[source] it is the seed of the leguminous plant Melastoma candel.

[plant morphology] Burmese eggplant

Trees, up to 40 meters high. The bark is grayish brown with large gray spots and rough. Branchlets oblong, yellowish brown. It has double pinnate compound leaves, short petiole, thin total petiole, 2-4 pairs of leaflets, apex slightly concave or obtuse, base ovoid, entire margin, papery, dark green above, gray green below, 7-8 cm long, 5-6 cm wide, lateral veins arc, sparsely reticulate veins. Raceme arranged in terminal panicle, flowers on the order axis inclined to one side; calyx tubular, 4-lobed, lobes oblong; petals only 1 developed, the rest degenerated, lavender; stamen 7, prominent, apex slightly curved, 4 with medicine, 3 degenerated, medicine brown; pistil 1, slightly longer than stamen, ovary superior; 1-locular. The pods are woody, oblong, 10-12 cm long, 6-7 cm wide and 4 cm thick, slightly constricted in the middle, brown and smooth, densely covered with yellow spots, especially on the edge, with many small protuberances. Seeds usually 2-3, oblate, horny aril petiole. The flowering period is May. The fruiting period is August.

It is cultivated in Guangdong, Yunnan and other places.

[function and indications] ① in LingMi Dan Yao Jian: "wiping the eyes to remove fire and poison can also detoxify hundreds of poisons. Toothache treated by water grinding. "

② Dian Lue: "wiping the eyes to remove the haze can also relieve the sore poison. "