N. O. LEGUMMINOSffi. 
445 
much curved, acute, 4-5 times as long as the Calyx. Pod 
distinctly stalked. 
Use : — As a remedy for the poisonous bites of animals, the 
people of the Ooncan use the root with an equal proportion of 
the root of Nyctanthes and Woodfordia floribunda, the seeds 
of Cassia tora and Vernonia anthelmintica and the stem juice of 
Trichosanthes palmata made into a paste with cow’s urine, as a 
local application, and administer Aristolochia indica internally. 
In the heat-eruptions of children the leaf-juice is given with 
curds and yellcrw zedoary (Dymock). 
388 . Pueraria tuberosa, D.G. h.f.b.i., ii . 197 . 
Syn. : — Hedysarum tuberosum, Roxb. 580. 
Vern. Bidari-kand, bilai-kand (H. ) ; Shimeeya, batrajee 
(B.) ; Sural, siali (Pb.) ; Daree, goomodee (Tel.) Gorabel 
(Raj.) ; Dari (Bomb.) ; Karwia-nai (Guz.). 
Habitat : — Hills of the Konkan, Dekkan, Canara, West 
Himalaya, Simla, Kumaon, Orissa, Nepal, Circars, Behar, 
Chota Nagpore. 
A large-deciduous, pubescent climber, with woody tubercu- 
lated stem, tuberous rooted- Bark brown zin. thick, peeling 
off in vertical strings. Wood very porous, soft, perishable, 
white when fresh cut, afterwards turning brown, fibrous. 
The pretty purple blue flowers appear before the leaves. Leaves 
of 3 leaflets. Leaflets broadly ovate, entire or sinuate, pointed, 
long stalked ; smaller equally sided. • Flowers |in. long, in 
small clusters, crowded in long, panicled racemes. Calyx |in. 
densely covered with red brown hairs ; teeth short acute, 2 
upper nearly or quite united. Standard orbicular ; keel nearly 
straight, obtuse, slightly shorter than the wings. Upper 
stamen free at both ends, but connected at the middle with 
the sheath formed by the others. Ovary hairy ; style glabrous, 
abruptly incurved at base ; stigma small capitate, pod flat, 
densely grey, hairy, 2-3in., deeply constricted between the 
seeds, tipped with persistent style-base. Seeds 2-6, separated 
by partitions. 
Parts used : — The roots. 
Use : — The root peeled and bruised into a cataplasm is 
