| HABIT: Herb. |
| HABIT: Annual and perennial, slender and beautifully delicate climber- with flower-peduncle tendrils. |
| INFLORESCENCE : Umbellate cyme. |
| FLOWERS : White in few flowered umbellate cyme, peduncles slender, stiff, axillary provided beneath the cyme with 2, opposite, circinate tendrils.
Sepals 4, imbricate, outer smaller, inner larger.
Petals 4, rounded at apex.
Stamens 8, excentric, filaments unequal.
Ovary 3-celled, style very short, trifid.
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| FRUIT : Capsule membranous, trigonous, 3-celled, stalked truncate at top, winged at angles, bladdery, veined. |
| SEEDS : Rounded, smooth, black, with a small, white, heart-shaped aril. |
| FLOWERING AND FRUITING TIME : September-December |
| C. halicacabum has been used in the treatment of many disorders. |
| It is useful asdiaphoretic, diuretic, emetic, laxative, refrigerant,stomachic, antibacterial, antioxidant, Wound healing, antiinflammatory , antidiarrhoeal, antidiarrhoeal, antiulcer,nervous diseases, itching, fruits are used for boils etc. |
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