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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
scattered, sharp, decurved, hooked prickles. Leaves 2-3in., 
roundish in outline, deeply palmately cut into 3-5 lanceolate, 
acute, shortly serrate segments (the lower often entire), glabrous 
or pubescent, usually very prickly on the veins beneath ; 
petioles as long as or longer than leaves, stout, horizontal, 
cylindric, very prickly. Stipules, linear- lanceolate. Flowers 
large, 2|-4in.; pedicels l-3in., very prickly ; bracteoles 10-12, 
linear setaceous, bristly, lower half spreading or reflexed, upper 
half erect, with a small deflexed leafy appendage at the middle ; 
sepals connate half way, ovate, very acute, sharp pointed, Jin , 
enclosed in thickened and enlarged, connivent Calyx, covered 
with very coarse appressed bristly hair ; seed compressed, 
rough with scattered papillae grey brown. Flowers yellow, 'with 
dark crimson centre. This is a very handsome climber. There 
seems to be no published figure of this common plant, says 
Trimen 1893. Talbot has done it since. (See his Forest Flora 
of Bombay). 
Very common in Ceylon, over trees and bushes in the 
low country, hotter parts of India, from Bengal to Ceylon (Max- 
well. T. Masters). 
Use : — Roots infused in water make a cooling drink for 
the hot weather (Talbot). 
163 . E. micranthus, Linn., h.k.f.b.i., i. 335 . 
Vern. — (Porebunder) Adbau Buporio, Darianu jh&d ; 
(Kutch), Kurfidvel ; (Tamil) Peru-maddi. (Gujrati) Chanak 
Bhindo ; (J. Indrajn) 
Habitat : — Hotter parts of India, from the North-West 
Provinces, eastward and southward to Ceylon. 
Shrubby, with slender rod-like spreading branches, thinly 
covered with stellate bristles. Leaves f-1 in., ovate or oblong, 
quite entire or serrate, glandless, rough with bristly hairs ; 
petioles very short. Peduncles axillary, as long as or longer 
than the leaves. Bracteoles linear, shorter than the Calyx. 
Flowers white or pink, J in. diam. Sepals lanceolate. Corolla 
reflexed. Anthers whorled. Capsule globose. Seeds cottony, 
variable. 
