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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
repand-dentate, more or less pubescent on both sides, especially 
beneath. Flowers white, bi-sexual, on short pubescent pedicels. 
Cyme corymbose, shortly pedunculate, dichotomous, lax, spread- 
ing, axillary, shorter or longer than petiole. Calyx very 
shallow, segments usually 4 (rarely 5) ; hooked and slightly 
coherent at top,, pubescent outside, soon falling. Berry 1 in, 
depressed, globose, cream-coloured, 2-4-seeded. Seed semi- 
globose, smooth. 
Use : — Sometimes used as a substitute for, or adulterant of, 
V. set.osa. 
This plant is used as a domestic medicine, because of its 
astringency (Dymook). 
305. Leea macrophyl/a, Roxb. it.f.b.i., t. 064, 
Roxb. 291. 
Sans. : — Samoodraka. 
V 'em. — Dhol-shumoodra (B.) ; Dinda (Bomb.); Samudraca 
(H.) ; Hatkan ( Santa!) ; Dinda (Mar.). 
Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India, from the 
tropical Himalaya, as far west as Kumaon, to Bengal, Assam, 
and the Western Peninsula. 
Stems erect, flexuose. Leaves simple, 9m. , 2-hd, broadly 
ovate, sub-cordate at base, coarsely serrate or dentate or sub- 
lobed, repand, glabrous and dark green above, nearly white 
beneath, and pubescent, jvith minute-branching hairs. Cymes 
puberulous, 1-ft. or more, freely-branching. Flowers white, 
small. Fruit the size of a small cherry, smooth, black, 
succulent. 
Part used : — The root. 
Uses The tuberous root is employed in the cure of gui- . 
nea-worm, and when pounded is applied to obstinate sores to pro- 
mote cicatrization. According to Roxburgh, the root is astrin- 
gent and a reputed remedy for ringworm (Dymocic). 
The root is said to yield colour for dyeing. 
