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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Use : — Fruit used as an anthelmintic (especially for tape- 
worm), sold under the name of Bebrang, and often used as a 
substitute for that of Samara Ribes (Stewart). 
It is also laxative in dropsy and colic. The gum of this 
plant is a warm remedy for dysmenorrhoea (Balfour). 
Continued use is said to produce a high colored state of 
urine. 
717. Embelia Ribes, Burm. h.f.b.i., hi. 513 ; 
Roxb. 195. 
Syn. : — E. glandulifera, Wight. 
Sans. : — Vidanga. 
Vern. : — Baberang, wawrung (Hind.) ; Bebrang (Sylhet) ; 
Himalcheri (Nepal) ; Babrung (Pb.); Vayu-vilamgam (Tam.); 
K4r-kannie, Warding (Bom.); Umbelia (Cingh.). 
Habitat: — From the Central Himalaya, throughout India ; 
common in the lower hills. 
A large, scandent shrub. Bark, tnbercled, Jin., rough, with 
conical hard protuberances. Wood light-brown, porous. Climb- 
ing by means of reflexed lateral twigs, which are deciduous 
except at the basal part, which remains as a woody deflexed 
spine. Branches extremely long, very flexible, with long inter- 
nodes, slender, cylindric; bark of young branches nearly white, 
very smooth and shining, with large lenticels. Leaves 4-5in., 
on very short petioles, usually bordered with prominent glands, 
lanceolato or oblong-lanceolate, acute or rounded at base, shortly 
acuminate, acute or obtuse, entire, perfectly glabrous and 
shining on both sides, pale and somewhat silvery beneath, 
coriaceous; lateral veins invisible, white surface, with scattered 
minute, red, sunken glands. Flowers very small, |-in., numerous, 
or white, more or less pubescent, in lax elongated, spreading 
pubescent panicles, 6in-2ft. long, terminal or in axils of upper 
leaves; bracts small, ciliate. Corolla split into distinct petals, 
pubescent on both sides. Stamens 5, erect. Berry about Jin., 
nearly globose, tipped with style, smooth, crimson, wrinkled 
when dry. 
