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when ripe. Seeds horizontal, closely packed, oval, compressed 
in pulp. Flowers all the year, yellow (Trimen). 
Uses : — The seeds in decoction are sudorific. The root, 
similarly prepared, is useful in flatulence, and, when masticated, 
relieves toothache (Atkinson). The tender shoots and bitter 
leaves are used as a gentle aperient and recommended in ver- 
tigo and biliousness (Dr. Peters, in Watt’s Dictionary). 
551 . Zehneria Hookeriana, Am., h.f.b.i., ii. 624 . 
Vern. : — B&n-kundri (Chutia Nagpur). 
Habitat : — North Bengal ; common in Sikkim, Assam, Khasia, 
and Cachar. Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon, common ^appa- 
rently always in the lower hills. 
A climbing herb, with simple tendrils. Stem weak, nearly 
glabrous. Leaves cordate, acute, simple or angular, or 3-5-lobed 
half-way down, generally asperous above, and hairy beneath. 
Petiole larger than the auricles. Ovary glabrous, even before 
the expansion of the flower. Fruit 3-8in. diam. when dry, 
reticulate, rugose, globose. Seeds much flattened, oblong, 
margined, smooth or slightly tuberculate on the faces. 
Use: — Root used with milk in fever and for diarrhoea (J, J. 
Wood’s Plants of Chutia Nagpur, p. 106). 
552 . Z. umbellata, Thwaites, h.f.b.i., ii., 625 . 
Syn. : — MomordicU umbellata, Roxb. 697. 
. Vern. : — Anant-mul, Tarali (H.) ; Kudari (B.) ; Gometta 
or Gometti (Bomb.) ; Tid-danda (Tel.) ; At (Santal) ; Gulkukru, 
Gulale-kukrigularki (Kullu) ; Bankakra ’Chamba) (Pb.). 
Habitat:— Very common throughout India. This plant 1 
found growing wild in my Ratnagiri garden, Outram House, 
1898 to 1904 (K. R. K.). 
Uses : — In the Concan.the juice of the-^root with cumin and 
sugar is given in cold milk as a remedy for spermatorrhoea, 
and the juice of the leaves is applied to parts which have be- 
come inflamed from the application of the marking-nut juice. 
As a Raustik, or restorative and fattening medicine, roasted 
onions, Gometta root, cumin, sugar and ghi are given, or Go- 
metta only with milk and sugar (Dymock), 
