FAGRAEA COCHINENSIS (Lour.) A. Chev.                                                                             DOLO

Aidia cochinchinensis Lour.

Fagraea fragrans Roxb.

Cyrtophyllum fragrans A. DC.

Local names: Dolo (Tagb.); dulo (Tagb.); susulin (Tag.); teka (Kuy.); uling (Tagb.); uring (Kuy.); uring (Kuy.).

Dolo is found on dry, forested slopes on the borders of grasslands, and in thickets at low altitudes in Mindoro, Culion, Busuanga, Palawan, and Balabac. It also occurs in Indo-China the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 

This is a small tree reaching a height of 15 meters. The leaves are opposite, leathery, elliptic, 10 to 15 centimeters long to 3 to 5 centimeters wide, and pointed at both ends, with stalks often 2 centimeters or more in length and with the base of the blade running down the sides of the stalk. The stipules from a cup around the stem on which the leaves grow. The flowers are fragrant and are borne in considerable numbers on compound inflorescences 5 to 8 centimeters long, in the axils of the leaves and toward the end of the branches. The calyx is deeply divided with rounded lobes. The corolla is yellowish-white, with 5 conspicuous lobes, and is about 1.5 centimeters in length. The fruit is a berry reddish when ripe, somewhat rounded, and about 6 millimeters in diameter.

Dey, after a careful chemical analysis of the bark, reports that it contains an alkaloid which seems to be isomeric with strychnine and to possess similar properties.

According to Guerrero, the bark is used as a febrifuge, especially in agues.

Pharmacopoeia of India records that the bark has been found effectual in the treatment of the malarious fevers in Malacca.