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way down the sides, the whole covered with orange-red, 
deciduous wool mingled with irritant red bristles. Seeds 
solitary, nearly circular, compressed, dark brown, hilum linear, 
extending round § of the edge. 
Part used.— The seed. 
Use : — The seed used as an expectorant in cough and asthma, 
and is applied externally as a sedative (Peters;. 
383. M. gigantea, D.C., h f.b.i., n. 186. 
Syn. : — Carpopogon giganteum, Roxh. 554. 
Vern. : — Kaku-valli (Mai.) 
Habitat. — Plains of the West Peninsula, Ceylon, Malaya. 
A large, woody climber, with slender, glabrous branches. 
Stem thin, but sometimes 250ft. long. Leaflets ovate, acute, 
glabrous when mature ; flowers on long slender pedicels, 
almost umbellate at end of long peduncles. Pod 4-6in , 
apiculate, with broad double wings along both sutures, but 
without wings or plates on the sides, densely covered with 
adpressed, chestnut-brown, irritant bristles. 
Uses. — Used in rheumatic complaints. The bark for this 
purpose is pulverized, mixed with dry ginger, and rubbed over 
the parts affected (Rheede). 
384. M. pruriens, D.C., h.f.b.i., ii. 187. 
Sans.- -Atmagupta, kapikachhu, vanari. 
Vern. : — Kiwach, goucha (EL) ; Alkusa (B.) Konatch (Nepal.) ; 
K&ch-kuri (Dec.) ; Kuhili (Bomb.) ; Kavach (Mar.) ; Kivfinch 
(Guz.) ; Punaik-kali (Tam.) ; Pilliaduga (Tel.) ; Nayik-korana 
(Mai.) ; Nasaguni-gida (Kan.) 
Habitat : — Cosmopolitan in the Tropics, from the Himalayas 
in the plains to Ceylon and Burma. Western Peninsula, Assam, 
Khasi Hills. 
A semi-woody climber, annual or perennial, with slender 
terete branches, usually clothed with short, white, deflexed 
hairs. Leaves large, rachis 3-5in. ; sparingly deflexed, hairy. 
Leaflets 3-4in., on short thick hairy stalks, terminal ones smaller 
and rhomboid-oval, lateral ones very unequal, with the lower 
half greatly dilated, all acute, mucronate, pubescent above, 
