N. 0. MENISPERMAOE®. 
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to the base of the petals. Drupe elliptic, oblong, 1 in. long, 
6ize of an olive, pale-yellow. 
Properties and Uses Possesses the bitterness and probably 
the tonic properties of gulanclid (Ph Ind.) 
40. T. cordifolia, Miers. h.f.b.i., i. 97. 
Syn . : — Menispermum cordifolium, Roxb., Cocculus cordi- 
folius, D.C. 
Habitat : — Throughout tropical India, from Kumaon to Assam 
and from Behar and the Concan to the Carnatic. In the Dun and 
Shaliaranpur forests, fairly common. 
Sans. : — Guduchi (bitter plant), Kundali (coiled', Chhina (cut) 
Vayastha (old), Amrita-Vallari (immortal Creeper), chhinnodh- 
hana (growing after being cut), Chhinnarulia, Amrita (nectar), 
Jwara-nishini (febrifuge) Vatsadani (eating its own offspring), 
Chandrapasa deriding the moon), Jivanti (living', Chakra-Lak- 
shana (wheel-shaped.) 
Vern . : — Gurach, gurcha, giloe, gulancha, gul-bet, (extract)- 
palo, sut-gilo, satte-gilo (root)-ghlancha-ki-jar, (Hind.) ; gulancha, 
gurach, giloe, nim-gilo, gadancha (Beng.) ; zakhmi liaiyat, gilo, 
garum, garham, batindu, (Pb.) (Extraet)-palo, sut-gilo (Sind); 
Gulwel, (CP.) ; Gulvel, guloe, gharol, giroli, ambarvel; (Bomb.) ; 
Gulaveli, gulavela, gulwail, guloe, gharol, (Mar.) ; Gado, gulvel, 
galo, (Guz.); gul-wail, gul-bel, gulo, (extract)-polo, sat-gilo, gulbel 
ka-sat, (Dec.); Shindil-kodi, (extract)-shindil-shakkarai (root)- 
shindil, kodi-ver, (Tam.) ; Tippa-lige guluchi, guduchi, guricha, 
manapala, tippatingai, (extract) Tippa-tige-sattu, (root)-tippa- 
tege veru (Tel.); Amrita-Calli, amruta-Calli, (Kan.); Amruta 
valli, citamerdu, amruta, chitramruta (Malay) ; Amritvel, amrit- 
wel (Goa). 
A glabrous, succulent, climbing shrub, often reaching a 
great height and sending down long thread-like aerial roots, 
closely warted. Barit grey or creamy-white, deeply cleft in spiral 
longitudinal clefts, the space between the clefts usually dotted 
with large rosette-like corky lenticels. Wood white, soft, porous. 
Pores small to large, rather scanty, irregularly arranged between 
the few broad medullary rays (Gamble). Leaves 2-4 in., broadly 
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