“…In folk medicine, the stembark is used to treat body pains, fever, rheumatism, jaundice and malaria by the Ibibios of Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The stembark has been reported to contain triterpene saponin (Tchivounda et al, 1990a(Tchivounda et al, , 1991, cylicodiscus acid, a dihydroxy pentacyclic triterpene carboxylic acid (Tchivounda et al, 1990b) and cyclodione, a dimeric diterpene (Tane et al, 1995). There are however, no references in literature as to the possible antiplasmodial efficacy of the stembark either in vitro or in vivo.…”