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The whole plant covered with decidous down, except on 

 the under-surface of the leaves where it is persistent. Stems 

 flattened, slender for climbing. Leaves membranous, 4-6 in. 

 petiole 1-2 in. ; terminal leaflet elliptic, lateral semi-elliptic, 

 shortly stalked, serrate, at length glabrous above, felted beneath. 

 Flowers dark brown or red, in small compact umbellate cymes, 

 on long woolly peduncles, which bear a forked tendril about an 

 inch from the top. Style very short. Fruit globose, of the 

 size of a cnrrant, black, 3-4-seeded. Seeds i by i in., elliptic, 

 with a round depression on the back, puckered round the 

 margins. 



Use:— -The vine is often given to horses when it first 

 springs up ; it is said to be very beneficial once a year. The 

 tuberous, starchy, astringent roots, sliced and dried, are sold by 

 the Goncan herbalists, under the name of Chamar-musli 

 (Dymook). 



304. V. pedata, Vahl. h.f.b.l, i. 661, Roxb. 

 138. 



Sans. : — Godhapadi (foot of the Iguana, from the shape of 

 the leaf). 



Vern. :— Goali-lata (B.); Tungrutrikup (Lepcha.); Edakula, 

 mandula, kaunem, pulimada, kaniapatige, kadepatige (Tel.) ; 

 Ghorpad-vel (Mar.) ; Mediya-wel (Sinhalese). 



Habitat : — Bengal, Sylhet, Assam, Khasia Hills and the 

 Western Peninsula, from the Concan to Ceylon. 



A large climber. Stems weak, cylindric, striate, usually 

 covered with short pubescence, mixed with longer, brown, spread- 

 ing hairs; tendrils long, forked, very slender, young parts 

 tomentose. Leaves large, 3-foliate (Trimen), usually 7-foliate 

 (M.A. Lawson) ; the lateral leaflets usually pedately-compound. 

 Petiole 2-3in,, pubescent and hairy, like the stem, central leaflet 

 long-stalked, lateral leaflets shortly stalked, rarely simple, 

 usually divided into 2-3 or 4 leaflets which are unequal, nearly 

 sessile or shortly stalked, all leaflets acute and often oblique 

 at base, shortly acuminate, acute, coarsely and shallowly 



