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Use : — The leaves and young shoots when dried are pow- 
dered and given by the Tainool practitioners in certain bowel 
affections connected with indigestion ; they are also considered 
as powerful alteratives (Ainseie). 
The juice of the stem is dropped into the ear in otorrluca, 
and into the nose in epistaxis by the Marathas. It has also 
a reputation in scurvy and in irregular menstruation (Dymook). 
Triinen : — “An article of food, both fried ami curried.” 
The stem beaten into a paste is given in asthma (Balfour). 
xV preserve of the stem prepared by boiling it in lime water 
is a useful stomachic (Moodeen Sheriff.) 
^97. V. adnata, Wall, h.f.b.i., I. 649. 
Sijn. — (Jissus adnata, Roxb. 130. 
Vern. — Kole-Zan (Bom.); Bod-lar-nari (Sautal) ; Panilari 
(Paharia) ; Kungclien-rik (Lepcha) ; ( ludametige, kokkitaya-ralu 
(Tel) ; Nadena (Mahabaleshwar) Marathi. This is the name 
in the Ooncan. Thana District — K. H. Kirtikar. 
Habitat. — Hotter parts of India, from the Western Hima- 
laya in Carhwal to Assam, Sylbet and Bengal. Western 
Peninsula and Ceylon. 
Stems slender, cylindric, at lirst covered with orange 
toiuentum, afterwards glabrous. Tendrils forked, woolly. 
Leaves 2-3 in., broadly ovate, cordate or wide-truncate at base, 
shortly acuminate, acute, spinous-serrate, nearly glabrous above 
(when full-grown\ densely covered with orange tonemtum 
beneath. Petioles about lin., very tomentose. Stipules broad 
obtuse, membranous, hairy. Flowers on slender, hairy, rather 
drooping pedicels- Cymes paniculate, orange- tomentose ; ped- 
uncles exceeding the petioles. Berry \ in. ; black, on recurved 
stalk, pyriform, appendiculate. Tendril woody, says Lawson. 
Seed io in., pyriform, smooth. 
Parts used. — The tubers and roots. 
Use. — The dried tubers are used by the country people as 
an alterative, in the form of a decoction ; they consider that 
