Menispermum. DIOECIA HEX ANDRIA, 817 
Teling. Tiga-mushadee. 
A large, twining, woody shrub, found in most parts of 
the coast of Coromandel, and in Bengal, though not abun- 
dantly. It grows chiefly in hedges, and in places overrun 
with bushes. It flowers most part of the year. 
Stem woody, twining to a great extent. Bark ash-colour- 
ed. Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, pointed, smooth, 
shining, and frequently scolloped, about five inches long, 
and three broad. Racemes axillary, erect, in the male fre- 
quently compound, in the female simple, erect, bearing but 
few flowers. Bracies minute, caducous, Flowers small, 
yellow. Mare, Calyx nine-leaved; the three exterior ones 
small, Petals six, obcordate, clawed, about the size of the 
calyx. Filaments six, subulate, erect, alternately shorter, 
of the length of the coro]. Anthers oval, Femare. Calyx 
and corol as in the male. Germs superior, about twelve in a 
cirele, each ending in a short, subulate style. Stigmas simple, 
Drupes or berries many, short-pedicelled, ovate, smooth, red, 
_ about the size of a French bean. Nut one, or two-celled, 
-Birds eat the berries. Cattle eat no part of it. 
This is the third sort of Mushadee of the Telingas. 
The first is Mushadee, Wua vomica tree. The second is 
Naga Mushadee, or snake wood tree, both already describ- 
ed; the root of this sort is also used for the cure of the bites 
of venomous snakes, It is rubbed between two stones, and 
given asa drink, mixed with water, However, the natives 
themselves confess they have very little opinion of its virtues. 
13. M. heteroclitum. R. | 
Sbrubby, twining. Leaves cordate. Male flowers pani- 
cled, monadelphous, Calyx two-leayed, corol six-petalled. 
_A native of the Circars, 
Stem thick, woody, twining or Clisitbaagy “Bark cracked, 
ash-coloured, Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, entire, 
above smooth, of a deep shining green, whitish below, three or 
five-nerved, from four to six inches each way, ¥ with many small 
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