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344 it purifies the blood, acts as a diuretic, and renders the secretions healthy (DYMOCK.)

The root, powdered and heated, is applied to cuts and fractures by the Santals (Revd. A. Campbell,)

Vern. : — Pâni-bel, musal (Merwaraj ; Govila (B.) Jungli Drakh (Porebander and Guj.); Golinda (Marâthi).

Habitat. North-West India ; Kuruaon and Moradabad. Assam, Silhet and the Western Peninsula, from the Concan and Coromandel coast, southwards.

The whole plant quite glabrous generally. Stems weak, hollow, far-climbing, striate. Leaves 5-8 by 6-8 in., glossy, roundly-cordate, 3-7-angled or-lobed, peduncles shortish, bearing a slender iorked tendril. Flowers very small, in small, some-what compact, thyrsoid Cymes, reddish-brown ; petals distinct ; peduncles bearing a short, wiry tendril a little below the cyme. Style 0. Fruit of the size of a current, black, 2-seeded. Seeds ⅓-¼ in., elliptic, with a linear tubercle on the back and the margins transversely rugose, bluntly ridged on the face.

Use. — According to Royle, the roots (Kusar) are used medicinally (Royle. 111., p. 144.)

Sans. — Drâkshâ ; mridirkâ.

Vern. — Of the fresh fruit— Grapes, Eng. Angûr, Dâkh, Hind. Angûr, Duk. Kodi-mundrip-pazham, Dirâksha-pazkam or Dirâksha-param, Tam. Drâksha-pandu, Gostini-pandu, Tel. Muntirinnap-pazham or Muntri-param, Malyal. Drâkshi-hannu, Can. Angûr, Drakhyâ, Beng. Drâksha-phalam, Sans. Drákska, Mah. Drákh, Guz. Mudra-palam, Mudrakâ, Cing. Sabî-sî Sabya-si, Bur. Ainab or Aanab, Arab. Angûr, Pers. Of the ripe fruit, dried in the sun or with artificial heat — Monaqqâ, Hind., Duk, and Pers. Ularnda-dirâksha-pazham or Ularnda- drâcha-param, Tam. Endu-drâksha-pandu, Dîpa-draksha-pandu, Tel. Unanniya-muntrinap-param, Malyal. Dîpa-drakshî, Can. Monakkha, Beng. Vellich-cha-mudra-palam, Cing. Zabîbmavéz,