N. 0. CUUURUITACEjE. 
583 
occasionally in place of the earlier is found a female. Calyx- 
tube lin. Fruit l-3in. ovoid conical. Seeds f-Jin., corrugate, 
half-ellipsoid, compressed, in red pulp. (C. B. Clarke). 
Uses : — Mahomedan writers describe the plant as cardiacal, 
tonic, alterative and antifebrile, and say that it is an useful 
medicine for boils and intestinal worms. The author of the 
Makhzan remarks that the Hindoos in obstinate cases of fever, 
infuse 180 grains of the plant with an equal quantity of the 
Coriander, for a night, and in the morning add honey to it and 
strain the liquor. This quantity makes 2 doses, one of which is 
taken in the morning and one at night. In Bombay, the plant 
has a reputation as a febrifuge ; it is given in decoction with 
ginger, chiretta and honey. In the Concan, the leaf juice is 
rubbed over the liver or even the whole body in remittent fevers 
(Dymock). 
The seeds are reputed good in disorder of the stomach on 
the Malabar Coast. The unripe fruit is very bitter ; the tender 
shoots and dried capsules are bitter and aperient ; they are 
given in infusion. In decoction with sugar, they are given 
to assist digestion. The seeds are antifebrile and anthel- 
mintic. The juice of the leaves expressed is emetic and that 
of the root, drunk in the quantity of 2oz. for a dose, is very 
purgative. The stalk in decoction is expectorant (Drury). 
529. T.anguina , Linn., h.f.b.i., ii. 610; Roxb. 
69. 
Sans. : — Chichinda. 
Vern . : — Chlchenda (H.) ; Chicbinga (B.) ; Parula, Padavala 
(Bomb.) ; Linga potla, Potla, Potla kaya (Tel.); Padavala kdyf 
(Kan.); Gklartori ; Pandol ; Chichinda (Pb.). 
Habitat : — Cultivated throughout India. 
An annual climber, much cultivated for its fruit, which is 
used as a wholesome vegetable. Leaves cordate-sub-reniform, 
more or less 5-(3-7-)lobed, 5-angular lobes, not acuminate, 
pubescent or puberulous on both surfaces. Tendrils 3-fid. Male 
flowers in a large peduncled raceme, with a small entire bract 
at the base of pedicel ; female solitary, on a short peduncle, from 
the same axils with the male. Fruit elongate cylindric, 
