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,)
298. V. latifolia, h.f.b.l. i. 652, Roxb. 222.
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.)
299. V. vinifera, Linn, h.f.b.l, i. 652.
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,
