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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Vern. : — Ardanda (H. Sindh, and Deck.), Ulta-Kanta, 
bipuwa-Kanta (Kumaon) ; His, Karvila, hiungarna (Pb.); 
Karralurra (Oudh) ; Katerni (Gond.) ; gitoran (Ajmere). Burn 
asaria, Bagni, Bagnei Baguchi (Sautal. ) ; Bagrani (Monghyr) ; 
Oseriva (Uriya) ; Wagatti, wag, Tarti, Taranti (Bomb); 
gowindi (Mar.) ; Atanday, attandax, Katalli Kai (Tam.) ; Adonda, 
arudonda (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Gangetic Valley, as far north as Saharunpore ; 
Western Peninsula and Chittagong, Ceylon, Malaya and the 
Philippines. 
A climbing shrub, with long divaricate branches, young 
shoots, with rufous scurfy tomentum. Leaves oval-lanceolate 
or oblong, obtuse, strongly apiculate, tomentose when young, 
afterwards glabrous and shining ; petioles short, stipular spines 
recurved. Flowers rather large, 1 \ in. diam. ; supra-axillary, 
solitary or % or 3 together, above one another, in a vertical line ; 
peduncle |-f in., tomentose. Sepals rufous-tomentose outside. 
Petals twice as longAhairy. Stamens much longer than petals. 
Gynophore 1 in. ; Ovary ovoid, apiculate, with. 4 placentas. 
Fruit subglobose, in. diam., on a greatly thickened stalk, 
many-seeded. Petals white, stamens crimson. 
Parts used : — The leaves, root, and root-bark. 
Uses : — In Northern India, the leaves are used as a 
counter-irritant and as a cataplasm in boils, swellings and piles 
(Atkinson.) 
In Chutia Nagpur, the bark, along with native spirit, is 
given in cholera (Rey. A. Campbell.) 
In Madras, a decoction of the leaves is used in syphilis. 
(Surg-Major Thompson). Watt ii. 132. 
The root-bark is sedative, stomachic and anti-idriotic ; 
the leaves also slightly stomachic. The root-bark is useful in 
relieving some of the symptoms of gastric irritation, as vomit- 
ing and pain, and in improving appetite. It has also proved 
itself useful in a few cases of excessive perspiration, which it 
checked to a great extent. The leaves also possess the pro- 
perty of improving the appetite (Moodeen Sheriff). 
