N. 0. SAl'lNDACliJi. 
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and Chittagong. Pegu and Andaman Islands. Forests near 
Karwar. 
A shrubby evergreen, with coarse, scabrous branches and 
petioles. Leaves hairy ; leaflets 4-12 by 2-4 in., lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, harsh and scabrous above/ 
hairy beneath, veins arched. Cymes very short and compact, 
2-5 in., densely hirsute. Bracts inconspicuous. Flowers large, 
anthers donnate. Fruit the size of a pea, black when ripe. 
Use : — It is used medicinally. The tubers and stems are 
probably astringent and mucilaginous. 
N. 0; SAPINDACEiE. 
310. Cardiospermuvi helicaeabum, Linn. 
m.f.b.i., i. 670, Roxb. 335. 
Eng, : — Balloon-Vine, Heart Pea or Winter Cherry. 
Sans. : — Jyotishmati, Ksiravi. 
Vern. : — Lataphatkari, nayaphatki, noaphutki, sibjhfil 
(B.) ; Hab-ul-kal-kal (seed) (Pb.) ; Karolio (Guz.) ; Kanphuti, 
bodha, khibjal, Naphat (Bom.); Mflda-cottan (Tam.); Walla 
gulisienda, kanakaia, bfidha-kalcara (Tel.); Penel-wel (Sinha- 
lese) ; Kagdolio (Porebunder). 
Habitat : — Throughout India, chiefly in Bengal and the 
North-Western Provinces. Ceylon, Malacca. 
A sub-scandent annual. Stem slender, strongly furrowed, 
slightly branched, glabrous, young parts puberulous. Leaves 
biternate. Petiole long, 2-3 in., spreading or deflexed, furrowed. 
Leaflets sessile or shortly stalked, ovate, tapering at base, acute, 
deeply incised-serrate, glabous, thin, flaccid. Flowers very 
small, | in., on slender pedicels 3-7 in., a very small cyme, termi- 
nating to stiff, slender, horizontal, axillary peduncle 4 in., long, 
and provided beneath the cyme with 2 opposite reflexed, 
circinate or hooked tendrils. Sepals rounded, the outer pair 
very small. Petals rounded, scarcely clawed ; scales of upper 
ones emarginate. Style very short. Capsule on a short, slender 
stalk, bladder-like, 5 -| in. wide, depressed-pyriform, trigonous, 
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