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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
N. 0. RHAMNEiE. 
284. Ventilago madraspatana, Gaertn. H. f. b. i., 
i. 631. 
Sans. : — Raktavalli. 
Vern. : — Pitti (H.) ; Raktapita (B.) ; Chorgu (Hyderabad); 
Kroti pitti (C. P.) ; Lokandi, kanwail (Bomb.) ; Ragatarohado 
(Guz.) ; Luri-chakka (Dee.) ; Pappili-chakka, suralpattai, lurala 
chaki, surate cheka, papli, vembadain, -vempadon (Triman) 
(Tam.) ; Surabi ; papri Kali-bili (Dun) ; Bonga-Sarjom (Kol.) 
petli tige, lurala tige, arra chiratali (Tel) ; Paipli-cbakka, papli, 
popli (Kan.) ; yaccaduvel (Sinhalese). 
Habitat ; — Western Peninsula, from theConcan southward. 
Tenasserim. Throughout the plains of India. Forests of Burma 
and Ceylon, in hot dry places. 
A large, much-branched, woody climber or climbing shrub. 
Bark grey white. Vertical cracks, exposing the inner surface 
which has a vermilion colour. Wood yellow, porous, soft ; 
branchlets elongated, slender, younger parts, branchlets, petioles 
and young leaves pubescent. 
A very conspicuous forest climber, climbing over the 
tallest trees and hanging its branches down in festoons (Gamble). 
Tendrils woody. Leaves l^-fiin. (usually about 2|), ovate, ovate- 
lanceolate, obtuse or rounded at base, acuminate, obtuse or 
rarely acute, shallowly crenate-serrate or entire, glabrous and 
shining; lateral veins G-10 in each side, fine but conspicuous, 
oblique, connected by very fine transverse reticulation. Petiole, 
■g^-in., stipules very small, lanceolate, pubescent. Flowers pale 
green, J in., numerous, on short pubescent pedicels, arranged 
in clusters on the branches of large spreading and drooping, 
pubescent, elongated, terminal panicles. Calyx pubescent, 
lobes erect, very acute. Petals shorter than calyx, 2-lobed. 
Stamens as long as petals. Styles short. Nut small, globular, 
supported on persistent calyx. Wing i-l| in. linear oblong, 
1 athery, pubescent, slightly, bifid at apex. 
