292 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. |[N.S., XV, 
Loc —Lab-i-Baring, No. 43; alt. 1,600’. 
Local name.—Pair y,asly 
Distrib.— India, West hail Arabia, Africa (excepting the 
Cape), and Spain 
Grows in the stony desert. The Seistanis scoop out the 
fruit and fill it with milk, which they leave standing in it over 
night. The milk is then used as a medicine for stomach-ache. 
The dried pulp of the fruit freed from the seeds is the Colocyn- 
thidis pulpa of the British Pharmacopoeia. 
XXIV. Compostrar. 
48. Pulicaria, Gaertn. 
P. pr pares Boiss, probably. Fl. Br. Ind. iii, 
299 ; ge FI. Or. iii, 
‘Strabonia caaahiiaden: ‘DC. Prod. v, 481. 
Loc.—Lab-i-Baring, No. 70; alt. 1600’. 
Distrib.—Western Tibet, Afghanistan and Persia. 
49. Artemisia, Linn. 
A. ee Waldst et Kit. Fl. Br. Ind. iii, 323; 
Boiss. "a. Or. iii 
Loe. —Lutak, NG. 81. 
ocal name, —Daruna S90 
istrib.—U pper India, Western Tibet, Afghanistan to cen- 
tral temas 
Eaten by pets goats, etc. 
68. A. sp. near A. herba-alba, Asso. Boiss. Fl. Or. iii, 
365 ; Musch. Fl. Egypt, ii, 1012. 
‘Loc.—Lab- -i-Baring, No. 34; alt. 1,600’. 
Dis trib. —Western Asia, North Africa and Spa 
Grows in stony desert and has a strong souks “The Seis- 
tanis dry and powder it by hand and at night put the powder 
into on which they drink the first ey in the morning. 
This draught is said to be good for the heart 
69. A., sp. 
Loc.—Ma kki, Afghan-Baluch Frontier, No. 94; alt. 2,500’. 
Very abundant in stony desert, perhaps the most abun- 
dant in the western part of the Nushki desert. Smell very 
strong. 
50. Launaea, Cass. 
L. spinosa, Sch. Bip. in Webb and Berth Canar ii, 
428 ; awk Fl. Egypt, ii, 1061. 
‘Zollikojeria spinosa, Boiss. Fl. Or. iii, 826. 
