344 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



it purifies the blood, acts as a diuretic, and renders the secre- 

 tions healthy (Dymook.) 



The root, powdered and heated, is applied to cuts and 

 fractures by the Santals (Revd. A. Campbell,) 



298. V. latifolia, h.f.b.l. i. 652, Roxb. 222. 



Vern. : — Pani-bel, musal (lierwaraj ; Govila (B.) Jungli 

 Drakh (Porebander and Guj.); Golinda (Marathi). 



Habitat. North-West India ; Kuruaon and Moradabad. 

 Assam, Silhet and the Western Peninsula, from the Concan and 

 Coromandel coast, southwards. 



The whole plant quite glabrous generally. Stems weak, 

 hollow, far-climbing, striate. Leaves 5-S by 6-8 in., glossy, 

 roundly-cordate, 3-7-angled or-lobed, peduncles shortish, bearing 

 a slender iorked tendril. Flowers very small, in small, some- 

 what compact, thyrsoid Cymes, reddish-brown ; petals distinct ; 

 peduncles bearing a short, wiry tendril a little below the cyme. 

 Style 0. Fruit of the size of a current, black, 2-seeded. Seeds 

 ■|-J in., elliptic, with a linear tubercle on the back and the 

 margins transversely rugose, bluntly ridged on the face. 



Use. — According to Royle, the roots (Kusar) are used 

 medicinally (Royle. 111., p. 144.) 



299. V. vinifera, Linn, h.f.b.l, i. 652. 



Sans. — L)r aksha ; mridirka. 



Vern. — Of the fresh fruit— Grapes, Eng. Angur, JJakh, 

 Hind. Angur, Ihik. Kodi-mundrip-pazham, Diraksha-pazkam 

 or Uiraksha-param, Tarn. Draksha-pandu, Gostini-pandu, Tel. 

 Muntirinnap-pazham or Uuntri-param, Malyal. Drakshi-hannu, 

 Can. Angur, Drakkya, Beng. Draksha-phalam, Sans. Drakska, 

 Mali. Drakh, Guz. Aludra-palam, Mudraka, Cing. Sabi-si 

 Sabya-si, Bur. Ainab or Aanab, Arab. Angur, Pers. Of the 

 ripe fruit, dried in the sun or with artificial heat — Monaqqa, 

 Hind., Bull, and Pers. Ularnda-diraksha-pazham or Ularnda- 

 dracha-param, Tarn. Endu-draksha-pandu, Dipa-rlraksha-pandu, 

 Tel. Unanniya-muntrinap-param, Malyal. Dipa-drakshi, Can. 

 ILonakkka, Beng. Vellich-cha-mudra-palam, Cing. Zabibmavez, 



