342 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Habitat : — (Brandis) Sub-Himalayan tract and outer hills 

 from the Jumna eastward, ascending up to 6,000 ft. in Sikkim. 

 Khasi Hills, Lower Burma, Andamans. Tonkin, Cochin China, 

 Malay Peninsula and the Archipelago. 



An unarmed, climbing shrub ; branches glabrous ; leaves 

 3-4 by If- 2 in., ovate, acuminate, slightly cordate at the base, 

 coarsely crenate-serrated, glabrous : racemes interrupted, axil- 

 lary or in terminal panicles, elongated, pubescent when young, 

 afterward glabrous. Flowers on very short pedicels, polyga- 

 mous. Disk glabrous, stellate ; accessory angles partly adnate 

 to the calycine-lobes, free and acuminated towards the 2-horned 

 apex. Fruit, glabrous, shortly winged. 



Use : — The leaves are used by Lepchas to make poultices 

 for sores (Gamble.) 



N. 0. AMPELID^. 

 296. Vitis quadrangularis, Wall., h.f.b.l, i. 645. 



Syn. : — Cissus quadrangularis, Linn. Roxb. 136. 



Sans. : — Asthisanhari, vajravalli. 



Vern. : — Harshankar, harjora, kandawel, Mhoisvel, nallar, 

 Kharbuti H. and Bomb.) ; Had Sankal, Hadsankal (Porebander 

 and Guj.); Pirandal (Tarn.) ; Nulle rotigeh, Nallera (Tel.) ; Tsgan- 

 gelamparenda (Mai.). Hiressa (Singhalese). 



Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India, from the 

 foot of the Western Himalayas in Kumaon to Ceylon and 

 Malacca. Malay Peninsula, Java. 



Stems very long, not woody, thick, sharply compressed, 

 quadrangular but scarcely winged, the sides concave, much 

 branched, jointed by contractions at the nodes, glabrous, green, 

 fleshy, the younger ones square on section and with winged 

 angles. Tendrils long, slender, simple. Leaves distant, few, 

 1-2 in., broadly ovate or rotundate-deltoid, truncate at base, 

 very obtuse, distantly spinous-crenate, glabrous, thick. Petiole 

 \-\ in., sub-quadrangular ; stipules small, in small umbels on 

 branches of short paniculate cymes. Petals ovate, acute. Style 

 short, blunt. Berry globose, apiculate, red. 



Parts used :— The stalk and leaves. 



