322 CAMP ANULACEZ. 
Anaphalis neelgerriana, DC., Prodr. vi. 272, and’ 
other species are used on the Nilgiris for cut wounds. The 
leaves are covered with woolly down, and are called by the : 
natives Kaat-plaster or country plaster. The fresh leaves are 
bruised and applied to the wound under a rag. 
The flowers of Carduus nutans, Jinn. Reich. Ic. Fi. 
Germ. t. 146, Vern.—Kanchari, are employed as a febrifuge in 
Sind and in the Panjab. 
Calendula officinalis, Zinn. The pot Marigold (Fng.), 
Souci des jardins (f’r.), Bot. Mag. t. 3204,a native of the 
Mediterranean Coasts, formerly esteemed as a domestic remedy, 
is found as a weed of cultivation in Northern India, 
CAMPANULACEA 
‘LOBELIA NICOTIANAFOLIA, Heyne. 
Fig.——Wight Ill., t. 185. Wild Tobacco (Eng). 
Hab.—Bombay to Travancore, Ceylon. The plant. 
Vernacular.—Dhavala (Mar.), Kattu popillay (Tam.), Adavi- 
pogaku (Tel.), Kadahogesappu (Can.). — . 
History, Uses, &c.—This Lobelia was first described 
by Heyne, who found it near Bangalore. We have met with 
no mention of the plant in native medical works, but the Marathi 
name appears to be of Sanskrit origin and to signify “ white,” 
probably in allusion to the colour of the flowers. Graham 
(Bombay Plants) states that the dried stalks, which are hollow 
in the centre, are sold in the bazar at Mahableshwar, and used 
as Koluri horns for collecting herds of cattle and scaring 
wolves. In the Concan a kind of rustic pipe called qfar (panva) 
is made from them. In the Pharmacopeia of India an infusion 
of the leaves is said to be used as an antispasmodic. The dry 
throat and nostrils. It is called w 
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