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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
527 . T. nervifolla, Linn, h.f.b.i., ii. 609 . 
Vern. : — Parvar ; Palval (H). 
Habitat I's-Dekkan Peninsula, Western India, Quilon, and 
Coorg, Tropica] region, Ceylon. 
A large perennial, herbaceous climber. Stems somewhat 
woody below, flexible, thickened at nodes, much-branched. 
Branches slender, striate, glabrous, tendrils bifid. Leaves 
2£-3fin., ovate-lanceolate, cordate or rarely lobed at base, 
very acute, mucronate, distantly denticulate, glabrous, dark- 
green, paler beneath, with prominent reticulate venation. 
Petiole f-lin. Flowers white ; male flowers on short pedicels, 
4-12in. pedunculate corymbose racemes ; bract small, caducous. 
Calyx-tube f-lfin., very narrow, influted above ; segments minute, 
setaceous. Petals oblong, acuminate, with fimbriae much bran- 
ched and very long at the end of petals, but shorter on the sides, 
doubled inwards in the bud. Female flowers shortly stalked, 
solitary. Calyx-tube nearly 2in., very much produced above 
ovary ; segments longer than in male flower. Fruit lfin., 
ovoid, shortly beaked, smooth, scarlet, pericarp thin ; seeds 
few, with very long stalks, ovoid, compressed, thickened 
at margins, each enclosed in an envelope of scarlet pulp 
(Trimen). 
Use : --Medicinal properties similar to T. dioica, Roxb. 
528 . T. cucumerina, Linn , h.f.b.i., ii. 609 ; 
Roxb. 694 . 
Habtitat : — Throughout India. 
Sam. : — Patol. 
Vern. : — Jangli-chichonda (H.) ; Ban-chichinga, ban-patol 
(B.); Jangli-padavala, Kadupadavala, pudoli, Ran-parval (Bomb.); 
Plpoodel, Poodel, Kat-tup-pepudal, kadu-parval (Tam.) ; Adavi- 
potla, Chaynd-potla (Tel.) ; Kai ppam-patolam , Podavalam, 
Pactavalam (Mai.). 
Stem twining, more or less pubescent. Leaves cordate, 
subreniform, 2-4 in. diam., pubescent or puberulous on both 
surfaces, usually 5 lobed about half way down, lobes obtuse or 
if acute not acuminate ; petiole fin. ; tendrils 2-fid. Male pe- 
duncles in pairs, the earlier 1-flowered, the later raccemed ; 
