N. 0. AMPKI.IDiE. 
349 
The whole plant, covered with decidous down, except on 
the under-surface of the leaves where it is persistent. Stems 
flattened, slender for climbing. Leaves membranous, 4-6 in. 
petiole 1-2 in. ; terminal leaflet elliptic, lateral semi-elliptic, 
shortly stalked, serrate, at length glabrous above, felted beneath 
Flowers d&rk brown or red, in small compact umbellate cymes, 
on long woolly peduncles, which bear a forked tendril about an 
inch from the top. Style very short. Fruit globose, of the 
size of a currant, black, 3-4-seeded. Seeds £ by ^ in., elliptic, 
with a round depression on the back, puckered round the 
margins. 
Use : — The vine is often given to horses when it first 
springs up ; it is said to be very beneficial once a year. The 
tuberous, starchy, ^astringent roots, sliced and dried, are sold by 
the Ooncan herbalists, under the name of Chamar-musli 
(Dymook). 
304. V. pedata, Void, h.f.b.i., i. 661, Roxb. 
138. 
Sans. : — Godh&padi (foot of the Iguana, from the shape of 
the leaf). 
Vern. : — Goali-latS. (B.); TungrQtrikup (Lepcha.l; Edakula, 
mandula, kannem, pulimadn, kaniapatige, kadepatige (Tel.) ; 
Ghorpad-vel (Mar.) ; Mediya-wel (Sinhalese). 
Habitat : — Bengal, Sylhet, Assam, Khasia Hills and the 
Western Peninsula, from the Concan to Ceylon. 
A large climber. Stems weak, cylindric, striate, usually 
covered with short pubescence, mixed with longer, brown, spread- 
ing hairs; tendrils long, forked, very slender, young parts 
tomentose. Leaves large, 3-foliate (Trimen), usually 7-foliate 
(M.A. Lawson); the lateral leaflets usually pedately-compound. 
Petiole 2-3in„ pubescent and hairy, like the stem, central leaflet 
long-stalked, lateral leaflets shortly stalked, rarely simple, 
usually divided into 2-3 or 4 leaflets which are unequal, nearly 
sessile or shortly stalked, all leaflets acute and often oblique 
at base, shortly acuminate, acute, coarsely and shallowly 
