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Herbaceous plant 2-4 ft. high in marshy meadows and damp 
places, root conical, apparently annual, stem with crowded leaves 
at the base, Angola (Hiern, 1.c.). 
Blumea aurita, DC. has been mentioned as having similar 
properties to B. lacera, but according to Watt (Dict. Econ. Prod. 
India) it does not appear to have any known economic property. 
Kef.—'' The Essential Oils of Blumea lacera and Sphaeranthus 
indicus,” Dymock, in Pharm. Journ. [3] xiv. 1884, p. 985.—— 
** Blumea lacera," in Dict. Econ. Prod. India, i. 1889, p. 459. 
SPHAERANTHUS, Linn. 
Sphaeranthus hirtus, Willd.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 334. [S. 
indicus, Linn]. 
Iil.—Rheede, Hort. Mal. x. t. 43; Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. Pl. 
ii. t. 164 (S. indicus); Lam. Encycl. t. 718, f. 1 (S. hirtus), 1. 2 
(S. indicus); Wight. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. iii. t. 1094 (S. hirtus). 
Vernac.  names.—Lookidge (Gambia, eor Koksim 
(Calcutta, Mus. Kew); Mundi, Gorakmundi, Munditika, Mur- 
muria, Kottak-Karandai (India, Dymock). 
Kontagora, Zungeru and West Africa in general extending to 
Mozambique, also in India, Malay Islands and Australia. 
Various medicinal uses attributed to the flowers, bark, root 
An erect or ascending, branching plant 2-3 ft. high; or an 
annual prostrate herb with ascending branchlets, fragrant 
(Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. iii. p. 558) with a rose-like perfume 
( ock). Found in Kontagora in fields and damp spots in 
bush (Dalziel, No. 189, Herb. Kew). 
Puzrcarra, Gaert. 
Pulicaria crispa, Benth. § Hook.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 366. 
Vernac. name.—Bilbila (Katagum, Dalziel). 
Niger, Katagum, Kontagora, Borgu. Occurring also in Sene- 
gambia, Nile Land, Arabia, Egypt, India, etc. 
The dried plant bruised and applied as a vulnerary to bruises, 
etc., of bullocks, India (Dict. Econ. Prod. India). 
Herbaceous plant 1-21 ft. high, found in fields and on waysides, 
Kontagora (Dalziel, No. 201, 1905, Herb. Kew). 
Ecureta, Linn. 
Eclipta alba, Hassk.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 373. 
Ill.—Bettfreund, Fl. Argent. ii. t. 68 (var. longifolia); iii. 
t. 113 (var. elliptica). 
