Folk Ponnampomaraiva (Kerala).
696 Vandellia pedunculata Benth.
Action Flowers—dried flowers are powdered and given for asthma, consumption, also for mood-swings and psychosomatic bursts.
Vandellia pedunculata Benth.
Action Fruits—refrigerant and cholagogue; used in biiary complaints and hepatic congestion. Dry fruits—narcotic; used in dysentery.
The seeds contain linoleic, oleic, palmitic and stearic acids.
Synonym Lindernia cordfolia (Colsmann) Merrill.
Family Scrophulariaceae.
Habitat The Himalayas up to 1,200— 1,700 m and throughout India.
Folk Gadaga-vel (Maharashtra).
Action Used for sexually transmitted diseases and urethral discharges.
Vandellia pyxidaria Maxim, synonym Vandellia erecta Benth. (The Himalayas from Kashmir to Assam, common in Bengal; also in central and South India) is known as Vakapushpi. The plant is used for gonorrhoea. Plant juice is given to children who pass green stool.
Vangueria spinosa Hook. f.
v) Synonym Meyna laxijiora Robyns. Family Rubiaceae.
Habitat West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.
Ayurvedic Pinditaka, Snigdhpinditaka.
Siddha/Tamil Manakkarai.
Folk Muyana. Chiracholi, Mu (Maharashtra).
Vateria indica Linn.
Synonym V malabarica Bl.
Family Dipterocarpaceae.
Habitat Peninsular India, from Kanara to Trivandrum and in Coorg.
English White Damar, Indian Copal-Tree, Malabar Tallow tree, Piney Varnish-Tree.
Ayurvedic Sarja, Sarjaka, Karsya, Sasyasumbara, Devdhuupa, Marich-patraka. Chhaagakarna. Ajakarna and Shaala (related species) are also equated with V indica.
Unani Raal.
Siddha/Tamil Kungiiyam, Vellai Kundarakam.
