oa CUCURBITACEH. 7 
~-In the Concan the juice of the leaves is applied to parts which 
have become inflamed from the application of the juice of the 
marking nut (Semicarpus Anacardium). a 
_ Description.—From the Flora of British India it will 
seen that this is a very variable plant common on hed 
throughout Jndia, Ceylon, Malaya, China and North Austre 
It is digcious, and has a root consisting of many pendu 
tubers. 
_.. The leaves are shortly petioled, cordate or sagittate 
' hastate at the base, the lobes longer than the petiole, 3 to 
lobed, or palmately 5-partite, sinuate and sharply too 
male flowers umbelled or shortly racemose at the apex 
long slender peduncle; female on a different plant, so 
short-peduncled ; berry oval or oblong, size of a pig 
egg, smooth, red when ripe. The tubers are of an 
gular, elongated form, usually about one inch in diame 
brown externally, white internally; they have a faint nau 
taste. 
CORALLOCARPUS EPIGAZA, Hook. f 
Fig.— Wight Ic., t. 503. 
Hab.— Panjab, Sind. Guzerat, Deccan. The tubers. 
Vernacular.—Ak&s-gadda, Chhilihinda, Garaj-phal (H 
Karvi-nai (Guz.), Akdsha—garudan, Gollan-kovaik—kizha 
(Tam.), Ak4sha-garuda-gaddalu, Naga-donda (Tel.), A 
garuda-gadde (Oan,), Siva-linga (Mar.). 
History, Uses, &c.—This plant is called in Sans 
Chhilihinda, Patdla-garuda and Maha-mula or “ great 
It is described in the Nighantas as very strengthening, ar 
begetter of phlegmatic humors, and a valuable remedy 
rheumatism. Ainslie remarks that the Vytians hold 
great estimation, and prescribe it in the latter stages of 
tery, and old venereal complaints. It is usually a 
