Artinusia. SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA, 4i9 
3. A. Indica, Willd, iii. ¥B46. 
Herbaceous, erect. Leaves pinnatifid, villous underneath. 
Panicles terminal, flowers drooping, female florets ten, ob- 
liquely truncated, the hermaphrodite ones ten, with gibbous 
tubes; receptacle naked. 
Sans. Dona, or Dana. 
_ Hind, Gund-mar. 
_ Beng. Dona. 
Pers, Arlemasaya. 
Is common in the gardens of the Hindoos throughout 
India, Flowering time the cold season. 
Root ramous, perennial, Stems several, erect, sub-ligneous, 
sometimes biennial; base ramous, striated ; tender parts vil- 
lous ; from four to eight feet high. Leaves alternate, pinnati- 
fid, pretty smooth above, a little downy underneath, but not 
woolly and white as in A, vulgaris ; lobes lanceolate, some- 
what gashed, though generally entire. Floral leaves entire, 
and linear-lanceolate. Panicles terminal, with the ramifica- 
tions and flowers all drooping. /lowers small, globular, nu- 
merous. Hermaphrodite florets about ten in the centre, five- 
cleft, with stamens hid in the gibbous tube. /emale ones 
about the same number in the circumference, obliquely trun- 
cated, and so small as to be with difficulty ee from 
_ the style. Receptacle naked, convex. 
The leaves possess a slightly aromatic smell and bitterish 
taste, similar to those of the common Mugwort which it re- 
sembles in habit, though not in the white woolly covering of 
the under side of the leaves nor in the inflorescence. The 
Hindoos employ it eeseag sd _ also in their eo ce- 
‘remonies, 
A. vulgaris is ais a native of India, said common in gar- 
dens about Calcutta, where it is known to the Hindoos by 
the name Magadana, which is also its Sanscrit appellation. 
Tt must also, I imagine, be a native of Japan, and China, as 
the one I have now described, (A, indica,) has not any of 
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