N. 0. OUOOBBITAOE®. 
595 
Habitat : — Throughout India. 
A climbling, annual, scabrid herb. Root perennial. Leaves 
5-lobed, lobes rounded, repandly and sharply toothed; male 
flowers crowded ; female solitary. Fruit oval, rounded at both 
ends, obsoletely 3-angled, 10-striated, glabrous, about lfin. long 
and lg-in. thick. Lobes of the leaves very broadly obovate 
and almost touching each other at their broadest part ; veins 
rounded. 
The fruit is collected in many places and sold in the 
bazars as a drug, and very probably as an adulterant for the 
true eolocynth (Duthie). 
Use: — Supposed to possess purgative properties of Colo- 
cynth (Watt). 
It contains a principle identical with or closely related to colocynthin. 
Var : — Pubescens. 
Vern. : — Takmaki (Bomb.). 
Use: — The seeds are considered cooling, and are applied to 
Herpes, after they have been beaten into a paste with the juice 
of the Durva (Cynodon dactylon) (Dymock). 
It is considered cool and astringent it creates appetite and 
removes bilious disorders (Baden-Powell). 
Var. : — C. pseudo-colocyntbis, Royle. 
This is a synonym for Cucumis trigonus, Roxb., as cited by 
C. B. Clarke, H. F. B. I., Vol ji, p. 619. This is described by 
Royle in his Illustrations of the-Himalayan plants. 
Vern. : — Indray an ; Bislumbhi (North India) ; Karit (Bomb.) ; 
Hattutrtumatti (Tam.) ; Adavi-puch-cba (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Met with throughout the Deccan and Sind to 
Baluchistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan. 
Use : — Pulp of the fruit is very bitter and similar in quality 
to eolocynth, for which it is substituted (O’Shaughnessy). 
Supposed to possess the purgative properties of officinal eolo- 
cynth. Dr. Gibson, however, expresses a doubt as to the cor- 
rectness of this opinion. Experiments are required to determine 
the point. According to the report of Dr. J. Newton, a decoc- 
tion of the roots of these plants is used as a purgative ; it is 
