582 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



527. T. nervifolla, Linn, h.f.b.i., ii. 609. 



Vern. : — Parvar ; Palval (H). 



Habitat : — Dekkan Peninsula. Western India, Quilon, and 

 Coorg, Tropical region, Ce^vlon. 



A large perennial, herbaceous climber. Stems somewhat 

 woody below, flexible, thickened at nodes, much-branched. 

 Branches slender, striate, glabrous, tendrils bifid. Leaves 

 2J-3iin., ovate-lanceolate, cordate or rarely lobed at base, 

 very acute, mucronate, distantly denticulate, glabrous, dark- 

 green, paler beneath, with prominent reticulate venation. 

 Petiole i-lin. Flowers white ; male flowers on short pedicels, 

 4-1 2in. pedunculate corymbose racemes ; bract small, caducous. 

 Calyx-tube f-l-fin., very narrow, influted above ; segments minute, 

 setaceous. Petals oblong, acuminate, with fimbriae much bran- 

 ched and very long at the end of petals, but shorter on the sides, 

 doubled inwards in the bud. Female flowers shortly stalked, 

 solitary. Calyx-tube nearly 2in., very much produced above 

 ovary ; segments longer than in male flower. Fruit ljin., 

 ovoid, shortly beaked, smooth, scarlet, pericarp thin; seeds 

 few, with very long stalks, ovoid, compressed, thickened 

 at margins, each enclosed in an envelope of scarlet pulp 

 (Trimen). 



Use : — Medicinal properties similar to T. dioica, Roxb. 



528. T. cucumerina, Linn, h.f.b.i., ii. 609 ; 

 Roxb. 694. 



Habtitat : — Throughout India. 



Sans. : — Patol. 



Vern. : — Jangli-chichonda (H.) ; Ban-chichinga, ban-patol 

 (B.); Jangli-padavala, Kadupadavala, pudoli, Ran-parval (Bomb.); 

 Plpoodel, Poodel, Kat-tup-pepudal, kadu-parval (Tarn,) ; Adavi- 

 potla, Chaynd-potla (Tel.) ; Kaippam-patolam, Podavalam, 

 Pactavalam (Mai.). 



Stem twining, more or less pubescent. Leaves cordate, 

 subreniform, 2-4 in. diam., pubescent or puberulous on both 

 surfaces, usually 5 lobed about half way down, lobes obtuse or 

 if acute not acuminate; petiole fin. ; tendiils 2-fid. Male pe- 

 duncles in pairs, the earlier 1-flowered, the later raccemed ; 



