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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
A twining herb. Stems wide-climbing, slender, with a • 
few adpressed hairs. Stipules minute ; lanceolate, deciduous; 
petiole J-IJin. Leaflets 3, membranous or subcoriaceous, small 
acute or subobtuse, green, with a few adpressed hairs above, 
grey and more hairy below, the end one ovate or oblong, 
l-2in. long. Racemes l-4in. lax, usually long, usually pe- 
duncled, elongated, the pedicel fascicled. Calyx J— Jin.; teeth 
lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla reddish. Pod linear, 
glabrous, recurved, lj-2in. long, 8-10 seeded. 
Use . — It is used in Hindu Medicine. Its properties are des- 
scribed in the Nighantu as follows: — 
The Mashparni is bitter, cooling, sweet, astringent, and dry. 
It produces semen, strength, and blood. It cures consumption 
and fever and disorders of wind, bile and blood. 
382. Mueuna monosperma , D.C., h.f.b.i., 
n. 185. 
Syn . — Carpopogon monospermum, Roxb. 553. 
M. anguina, Wall. 
Vern. — Soug&rvi, mothi-kuhili (Bomb.) ; Pedda, enooga, 
doola-gunda (Tel.). 
Habitat.— East Himalayas, tropical zone, Khasia, Assam, 
Chittagong and the hills of the West Peninsula. 
A large, woody climber, the young branches clothed with 
rufous, deciduous tormentum. Leaves large, rachis 2J-4Jin., 
with red, deciduous pubescence. Stipules deciduous. Leaflets 
on short swollen stalks, 2-4, rotundate or broadly oval, shortly 
acuminate, smooth above, more or less closely pubescent 
beneath, lateral ones unequal-sided. Flowers large, ljin., 
bright violet, keel green, on divaricate pedicels, Jin. long, 
6-10in., a lax pubescent receme (or panicle), shorter than 
leaves. Calyx sparingly clothed with red -bristles ; upper seg- 
ments wanting ; standard often with a few bristles on back. Pod 
2in. ; broadly ovate-ovoid, shortly-stalked, somewhat curved, 
with a short decurved beak, with a broad double horizontal 
wing along both sutures and several (about 6) broad, erect 
distinct wings extending from them at right angles nearly hall 
