Economic importance includes Cinchona, the source of quinine used to treat malaria, Coffea arabica and other species, the source of coffee, Pausinystalia johimbe, the source of the sexual stimulant yohimbine, some timber trees, fruiting plants, dye plants (such as Rubia, madder), and ornamental...
Melodinus In subject area: Agricultural and Biological Sciences The genus Melodinus, subtribe Melodininae, tribe Carissae, is a climbing genus comprising species growing in Asia and the Pacific archipelagoes. From: The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology, 1996...