Well captured, Rajesh ji. Some extracts from Wikipedia link (for pictures & more details, click on the link): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemidesmus_indicus
*Indian Sarsaparilla* (*Hemidesmus indicus*) is a species<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species>of plant that is found in South Asia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia>. It is a slender, laticiferous<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laticiferous&action=edit&redlink=1>, twining, sometimes prostrate <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostrate> or semi-erect shrub <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub>. Roots are woody and aromatic. The stem is numerous, slender, terete, thickened at the nodes. The leaves are opposite, short-petioled, very variable, elliptic-oblong to linear-lanceolate. The flowers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers> are greenish outside, purplish inside, crowded in sub-sessile axillary cymes<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyme> . It is used to make beverages and also used in traditional medicine. In Ayurveda <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda> it goes by the name of * ananthamoola* or *Anantmula*. It is also called the False Sarsaparilla<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla>. The plant enjoys a status as tonic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic>, alterative<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alterative&action=edit&redlink=1>, demulcent <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demulcent>, diaphoretic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaphoretic>, diuretic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diuretic> and blood purifier. It is employed in nutritional disorders, syphilis<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis>, chronic rheumatism<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chronic_rheumatism&action=edit&redlink=1>, gravel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel> and other urinary diseases<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Urinary_diseases&action=edit&redlink=1>and skin affections. It is administered in the form of powder, infusion or decoction <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoction> as syrup<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrup>. It is also a component of several medicinal preparations. It is one of the Rasayana plants of Ayurveda, as it is anabolic in its effect. It stimulates the flow of bile and removes toxins from the body. It is a good diuretic and increases flow of urine three to four times. When used with *Tinospora*, the herb's effect is enhanced further. It relieves inflammation of urethra and burning micturition and is also helpful for third or fourth stages of syphilis. It is sometimes confused with other Ayurvedic herb called white *sariva*. The root is a substitute for Sarsaparilla (the dried root of the tropical species of *Smilax <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilax>*, Smilacaceae<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilacaceae>; in India <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India> *Smilax aspera* L., and *Smilax ovalifolia* Roxb.).It should be distinguished from American Sarsaparilla * Smilax* *aristolochaefolia* Mill and Jamaican Sarsaparilla *Smilax ornata*Hook.f. (Puri 2003) Chemical analysis of the root showed the presence of coumarins, volatile oil the chief component of which is p-methoxy salicylic aldehyde, two sterols and a pregnane glycoside (Puri 2003). It is occurring over the greater part of India, from the upper Gangetic plain <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangetic_plain> eastwards to Assam<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assam>and in some places in central, western and South India. 2009/4/25 Rajesh Sachdev <[email protected]> > > > On the way to chinchoto water fall, I came across this flowering climber. > Very tiny, hard to spot. 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