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way down the sides, the whole covered with orange-red, 

 deciduous wool mingled with irritant red bristles. Seeds 

 solitary, nearly circular, compressed, dark brown, hilum linear, 

 extending round § of the edge. 



Part used. — The seed. 



Use : — The seed used as an expectorant in cough and asthma, 

 and is applied externally as a sedative (Peters;. 



383. M. gigantea, B.C., h.f.b.l, ii. 186. 



Syn. : — Carpopogon giganteum, Roxb. 554. 



Vern. : -Kaku-valli (Mai.) 



Habitat.— Plains of the West Peninsula, Cejdon, Malaya. 



A large, woody climber, with slender, glabrous branches. 

 Stem thin, but sometimes 250ft. long. Leaflets ovate, acute, 

 glabrous when mature ; flowers on long slender pedicels, 

 almost umbellate at end of long peduncles. Pod 4-6in , 

 apiculate, with broad double wings along both sutures, but 

 without wings or plates on the sides, densely covered with 

 adpressed, chestnut-brown, irritant bristles. 



Uses. — Used in rheumatic complaints. The bark for this 

 purpose is pulverized, mixed with dry ginger, and rubbed over 

 the parts affected (Rheede). 



384. M. pruriens, D.C., h.f.b.i., ii. 187. 



Sans.- -Atmagupta, kapikachhu, vanari. 



Vern. :— Kiwach, goucha(PL) ; Alkusa (B.) Konatch (Nepal.) ; 

 Kach-kuri (Dec.) ; Kuhili ^Bomb.) ; Kavach (Mar.) ; Kivanch 

 (GuzO ; Punaik-kali (Tam.) ; Pilliaduga (Tel.) ; Nayik-korana 

 (Mai.) ; Nasaguni-gida (Kan.) 



Habitat : — Cosmopolitan in the Tropics, from the Himalayas 

 in the plains to Ceylon and Burma. Western Peninsula, Assam, 

 Khasi Hills. 



A semi-woody climber, annual or perennial, with slender 

 terete branches, usually clothed with short, white, deflexed 

 hairs. Leaves large, rachis 3-5in. ; sparingly deflexed, hairy. 

 Leaflets 3-4in., on short thick hairy stalks, terminal ones smaller 

 and rhomboid-oval, lateral ones very unequal, with the lower 

 half greatly dilated, all acute, mucronate, pubescent above, 



