Botanical info | A large scandent shrub, growing all over India up to 1500 m in hilly regions, leaves simple, alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, flowers white or greenish white in terminal and axillary, fruits globular, dull red to black berries, seed single globose |
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1018) vella, mfn. going, moving, shaking, W.; n. Embelia Ribes, L.; N. of a town (the modern Vellore see comp. and cf. vellUra). Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 962) viḍaṅga, mfn. clever, able, skilful, L.; m. and (ā), f. Embelia Ribes, L.; n. the fruit of the above plant (a vermifuge), L.
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