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Chhilihinta or ChhiUhinii, or Chhilli is TanicM-VeL At p. 201 of 

 the sriine volume Pat&l-garudi is also called TanicM-Vel ; similarly 

 at p. 269 of the same volume, MahamuU is a synonym for Tanicha- 

 VeL Ko further indigenous support is needed to establish my view 

 that Dr. Dymock's remark is an erroneous one, especially as Shodhal's 

 description of Nahi is to my mind so complete as to make me firm in 

 the belief that the plant he calls Nahi is what we call in Bombay 

 Kadavi Ncii = the CoraUocarpus epigcea of Hooker jU ("Flora Br. 

 Ind.;' Vol II, p. 628). 



I caDuot venture to say how it is t'hat Dr. Dymock and his 

 colleagues fell into this pardonable error, but I feel bound to point it out 

 as the result of my study regia'ding the plant I am describing. That 

 Dr, Dymock has himself identified Tan- Wei (or as styled in Mara- 

 thi T^nicha-Vel, and briefly Tan-Vel), as a member of the N. 0. 

 Menispermacecei and not Cucurbitacece, will be amply borne out by 

 a reference to p. 190, last line, Vol. II, of this Society's Journal, 

 1887, where, as synonyms for Cocculus villosus, DC, Brigade- 

 Surgeon W. Dymock, in his valuable article headed Marathi Names of 

 Plants {with a. glossary)^ gives the following Bombay names :— 

 '' =I^%o5, Vasanvel ; qTRar, Parvel ; st^t, Tciw." (The Marathi 

 word should have been jff^ and not JR, which latter has no meaning 

 in Marathi. — K. R. K.) For remember that ^m is an abbreviation 

 of T&n- Vel or Tanicha- Vel = the creeper Tan, 



Refer also in this connection to the then Hon'ble Mr. Justice Bird- 

 wood's " Catalogue of Matheran and Mahableshwar Plants."* Mr. 

 Justice Birdwood's remarkably accurate knowledge of the Bombay 

 Flora is my sole guarantee for quoting his unquestionably high authority 

 in solving this somewhat ungracious question as against Dr. D3anoGk, 

 .my former Teacher of Materia Medica in the Grant Medical College, in 

 the early seventies, and my subsequent friend and brother-officer in the 

 Indian Medical Service. Mr. Justice Birdwood, under the N.O. 

 Menispermaceoi, gives Coccidus villosus as the Latin equivalent of ^F'T 

 (Tan), «rgTi^ Vasan-vel (Sanskrit Vasadani) sic. [Note that in San- 

 skrit it is not Vasadani^ but Vatsadani or Vdsani.]'] 



* r. 112, Vol. II, 1887, Bo. N. H. Sccioiy's JournHl, 



t Firfe"Raj Nighant " of Karhar Tandit : Buruoul's Sai:;,-krit and French Dictionary 

 and Botfilingk's Wortbuch. 



