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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
it purifies the blood, acts as a diuretic, and renders the secre- 
tions healthy (Dymook.) 
The root, powdered and lreated, is applied to cuts and 
fractures by the Santals (Revd. A. Campbell.) 
298. V. latifolia, h.f.b.i., i. 652, Roxb. 222. 
Fern. PAni-bel, musal (Merwara) ; Govila(B.) Jungli 
Lrakh (Porebander and Cluj.); Golinda (Marathi). 
Habitat. North-West India ; Kumaon and Moradabad. 
Assam, Silhet and the Western Peninsula, from the Concan and 
Coromandel coast, southwards. 
The whole plant quite glabrous generally. Stems weak, 
hollow, far-climbing, striate. Leaves 5-8 by 0-8 in., glossy, 
roundly-cordate, 3-7-angled or-lobed, peduncles shortish, bearing 
a slender iorked tendril. Flowers very small, in small, some- 
what compact, thyrsoid Cymes, reddish-brown ; petals distinct ; 
peduucles bearing a short, wiry tendril a little below the cyme. 
Style 0. Fruit of the size of a current, black, P-seeded. Seeds 
■g-J in., elliptic, with a linear tubercle on the back and the 
margins transversely rugose, bluntly ridged on the face. 
Use. — According to Royle, the roots (Kusar) are used 
medicinally (Royle. 111., p. 144.) 
299. V. vinifera, Linn, h.f.b.i., i. 652. 
Sans . — Draksha ; mridirka. 
Vern. — Of the fresh fruit— Grapes, Eiuj. Augur, llakli, 
Hind. Angur, Duk. Kodi-mundrip-pazham, Diraksha-pazham 
or Dirnksha-param, Tam. Draksha-pandu, Gostini-pandu, Tel. 
Muntirinnap-pazham or Muntri-param, Malyal. Drakshi-hannu, 
Can. Angur, Drakhya, Beny. Draksha-phalam, Sans. Driiksba, 
Hah. Drakh, Ouz. Mudra-palam, Mudraka, Ciwj. Sabi-si 
Sabya-si, Bur. Ainab or Aanab, Arab. Angur, Pers. Of the 
ripe fruit, dried in the sun or with artificial heat — Monaqqa, 
Hind., Duk. and Pers. Ularnda-diraksha-pazham or Ularnda- 
dracha-param, Tam. Endu-draksha-pandu, Dipa-draksha-pandu, 
Tel. Unanniya-muntrinap-param, Malyal. Dipa-drakshi, Can. 
Monakkha, Beny. Vellich-cha-mudra-palam, Ciny. Zablbmavez, 
