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much curved, acute, 4-5 times as long as the Calyx. Pod 

 distinctly stalked. 



Use : — As a remedy for the poisonous bites of animals, the 

 people of the Ooncan use the root with an equal proportion of 

 the root of Nyctanthes and Woodford ia floribunda, the seeds 

 of Cassia tora and Vernonia anthelmintica and the stem juice of 

 Trichosanthes palmata made into a paste with cow's urine, as a 

 local application, and administer Aristolochia indica internally. 

 In the heat-eruptions of children the leaf-juice is given with 

 curds and yellow zedoary (Dymock). 



388. Pueraria tuberosa, B.C. h.f.b.l. ii. 197. 



Syn. : — Hedysarum tuberosum, Roxb. 580. 



Vern. : — Bidari-kand, bilai-kand (H.) ; Shimeeya, batrajee 

 (B.) ; Sural, siali (Pb.) ; Daree, goomodee (Tel.); Gorabel 

 (Raj.) ; Dari (Bomb.) ; Karwia-nai (Guz.). 



Habitat : — Hills of the Konkan, Dekkan, Canara, West 

 Himalaya, Simla, Kumaon, Orissa, Nepal, Circars, Behar, 

 Chota Nagpore. 



A large-deciduous, pubescent climber, with woody tubercu- 

 lated stem, tuberous rooted- Bark brown iin. thick, peeling 

 off in vertical strings. Wood very porous, soft, perishable, 

 white when fresh cut, afterwards turning brown, fibrous. 

 The pretty purple blue flowers appear before the leaves. Leaves 

 of 3 leaflets. Leaflets broadly ovate, entire or sinuate, pointed, 

 long stalked ; smaller equally sided. Flowers |in. long, in 

 small clusters, crowded in long, panicled racemes. Calyx Jin. 

 densely covered with red brown hairs ; teeth short acute, 2 

 upper nearly or quite united. Standard orbicular ; keel nearly 

 straight, obtuse, slightly shorter than the wings. Upper 

 stamen free at both ends, but connected at the middle with 

 the sheath formed by the others. Ovary hairy ; style glabrous, 

 abruptly incurved at base ; stigma small capitate, pod flat, 

 densely grey, hairy, 2-3in., deeply constricted between the 

 seeds, tipped with persistent style- base. Seeds 2-6, separated 

 by partitions. 



Parts used : — The roots. 



Use: — The root peeled and bruised into a cataplasm is 



