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Use ; — The leaves and young shoots when dried are pow- 

 dered and given by the Tamool practitioners in certain bowel 

 affections connected with indigestion ; they are also considered 

 as powerful alteratives (Ainslie). 



The juice of the stem is dropped into the ear in otorrhcea, 

 and into the nose in epistaxis by the Marathas. It has also 

 a reputation in scurvy and in irregular menstruation (Dymock). 



Trimen : — "An article of food, both fried and curried." 

 The stem beaten into a paste is given in asthma (Balfour). 

 A preserve of the stem prepared by boiling it in lime water 

 is a useful stomachic (Moodeen Sheriff.) 



297. V. adnata, Wall, h.f.b.l, i. 649. 



Sun. — Cissus adnata, Roxb. 136. 



Vern. — Kole-Zan (Bom.) ; Bod-lar-nari (Santal) ; Panilari 

 (Paharia) ; Kungchen-rik (Lepcha) ; Gudametige, kokkitaya-ralu 

 (Tel) ; Nadena (Mahabaleshwar) Marathi. This is the name 

 in the Concan. Thana District — K. R. Kirtikar. 



Habitat. — Hotter parts of India, from the Western Hima- 

 laya in Garhwal to Assam, Sylhet and Bengal. Western 

 Peninsula and Ceylon. 



Stems slender, cylindric, at first covered with orange 

 tomentum, afterwards glabrous. Tendrils forked, woolly. 

 Leaves 2-3 in., broadly ovate, cordate or wide-truncate at base, 

 shortly acuminate, acute, spinous-serrate, nearly glabrous above 

 (when full-grown), densely covered with orange tonemtum 

 beneath. Petioles about lin., very tomentose. Stipules broad, 

 obtuse, membranous, hairy. Flowers on slender, hairy, rather 

 drooping pedicels. Cymes paniculate, orange-tomentose ; ped- 

 uncles exceeding the petioles. Berry \ in. ; black, on recurved 

 stalk, pyriform, appendiculate. Tendril woody, says Lawson. 

 Seed t 3 o in., pyriform, smooth. 



Parts used. — The tubers and roots. 



Use. — The dried tubers are used by the country people as 

 an alterative, in the form of a decoction ; they consider that 



