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48. Cissampelos Pareira, Linn, h.f.b.i., i. 103. 
Sansk. : — Lagliu Patha ; Ambashtha, Brjhattikta (very 
pungent), Prachinambastika (Eastern Ambastika), Rasa (juicy), 
Varatikta (very pungent), Papanelil (creeper of sin), Sreysi 
(auspicious), Vridhakarnika (long-eared). 
Fern.: — Kardhiyun-bang (Poreb) Akanadi ; dakh, nirbisi, 
p&ri harjeuri (H.) ; Akanadi, nemuka (P>. ; Tejo mulla (Santal) ; 
Batulpoti (Nepal); Katori, tikri, parbik, pataki, bat bel, Zakhmi 
haiyat, batindu path {leaves) pilijari, pilajur (root) (Pb.) ; Nirbisi 
(root) (Dek.) ; Venivel (Guj and Bomb.); Parayel (Goa); 
Po-mushtie, pun-musbtie; Pabadvel, pabadmul (Bomb.); Vata 
tirupie (Tam.) ; Pata (Tel.). Padavali (Kan.). (Pari kuman)Pahre 
(Dun). Diya-mitta (Sinhalese). 
Habitat : — Tropical and sub-tropical India, from Sindh and 
the Panjab to Ceylon, up to 4,000 ft. In India ascending up to 
6,000 ft. Cosmopolitan, common in the valleys of Simla and 
Dun. 
A climbing, softly pubescent shrub. A lofty climber (Hk. 
and Th.), with herbaceous or slender woody branches, on a very 
short stout stem. Trimen says it is a woody twiner, usually of 
small size, with straggling branches, long shoots pubescent or 
tomentose. Wood brown, divided by very broad medullary rays 
and regular concentric bands of similar texture into small 
rectangular divisions, each with two to eight small to very large 
pores. The stem yields strong fibres, which are made into ropes. 
Leaves orbicular or broadly ovate, 1-4 in. across, peltate or 
cordate, obtuse and mucronate, rarely acute ; base sometimes 
truncate. Petiole equalling the leaf, or longer. Flowers greenish- 
yellow, small. Male-flowers on stalked branched cymes, 
clustered in leaf-axils, or borne on long axillary raceme-like 
shoots, each cyme in the axil of a small leaf-like bract. 
Sepals 4, hairy, ovate, spreading. Petals united into a 
shallow 4-lobed cup. Stamens 4, filaments united into a very 
short column, top dilated, peltate ; anthers sessile round the 
margin. Female flowers : — clustered in axils of orbicular bracts 
crowded on long solitary racemes. Sepal one, pubescent, broadly 
pvate» Petal one, opposite the sepal, similar, but smaller and 
