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Rh Use ; — The leaves and young shoots when dried are powdered and given by the Tamool practitioners in certain bowel affections connected with indigestion ; they are also considered as powerful alteratives (AINSLIE).

The juice of the stem is dropped into the ear in otorrhœa, and into the nose in epistaxis by the Marâthas. It has also a reputation in scurvy and in irregular menstruation (Dymock).

Trimen : — "An article of food, both fried and curried." The stem beaten into a paste is given in asthma (Balfour). A preserve of the stem prepared by boiling it in lime water is a useful stomachic (MOODEEN SHERIFF.)

Syn. — Cissus adnata, Roxb. 136.

Vern. — Kole-Zân (Bom.) ; Bod-lar-nari (Santal) ; Panilari (Paharia) ; Kungchen-rik (Lepcha) ; Gudametige, kokkitaya-ralu (Tel) ; Nâdena (Mahâbaleshwar) Marâthi. This is the name in the Concan. Thâna District — K. R. Kirtikar.

Habitat. — Hotter parts of India, from the Western Himalaya in Garhwal to Assam, Sylhet and Bengal. Western Peninsula and Ceylon.

Stems slender, cylindric, at first covered with orange tomentum, afterwards glabrous. Tendrils forked, woolly. Leaves 2-3 in., broadly ovate, cordate or wide-truncate at base, shortly acuminate, acute, spinous-serrate, nearly glabrous above (when full-grown), densely covered with orange tonemtum beneath. Petioles about lin., very tomentose. Stipules broad, obtuse, membranous, hairy. Flowers on slender, hairy, rather drooping pedicels. Cymes paniculate, orange-tomentose ; ped-uncles exceeding the petioles. Berry ¼ in. ; black, on recurved stalk, pyriform, appendiculate. Tendril woody, says Lawson. Seed 3/10 in., pyriform, smooth.

Parts used. — The tubers and roots.

Use. — The dried tubers are used by the country people as an alterative, in the form of a decoction ; they consider that