N. 0. COMPOSITE. 677 



petioled obovate, toothed or serrate, rarely tabulate. Heads £in., 

 in short axillary cymes and collected in terminal spiciform 

 panicles, rarely corymbose. Involucre-bracts narrow, acuminate, 

 hairy. Receptacle glabrous. Corolla yellow, lobes of herma- 

 phrodite flowers nearly glabrous, pappus white. Achenes sub- 

 4-gonens, not ribbed, glabrate. 



Uses : — The fresh root held in the mouth is said to relieve 

 dryness (U. C. Dutt). 



Mixed with black pepper it is given in cholera (Watt). 



The expressed juice of the leaves is a useful anthelmintic, 

 especially in cases of thread-worm, either internally or applied 

 locally (Sarg. J. Anderson, Bijnor). Used by many Hospital 

 Assistants and highly thought of by them as a febrifuge and 

 astringent. Is an invaluable remedy in Tinea Tarsi (Asst.- 

 Surg. Bollye Chand Sen, Campbell Med. School, Sealdah), 

 in Watt's Dictionary. 



The expressed juice of the leaves, mixed with black pepper, 

 is given in bleeding piles. 



It is also given in retention of urine 



636. B. eriantha, DC, h.f.b.i., hi. 266. 



Vern. : — Nimurdi (Mar.). 



" Under the names of Bhamburdi Mar.) Kalara and Chan- 

 char i- mar i, ' flea- killer ' (Guz.), several kinds of Bhumea are 

 used indiscriminately by the natives of Western India " (Phar- 

 macographia Indica, Vol. II., p. 255). 



Habitat: — The Concan ; Banda. 



A prostrate or decumbent herb, pubescent or tomentose, or 

 clothed with scattered long hairs, rarely silky, villous. Stems 

 lft., very slender, dichotomously divaricately branched from 

 the base. Leaves l-3in., acutely irregularly toothed, the teeth 

 often subspinescent ; lower leaves petioled, obovate, obtuse, upper 

 sessile, obovate or oblong-acute. Heads small, i-^in. mostly, on 

 the long slender peduncles of dichotomous cymes, rarely fasci- 

 cled. Peduncles and involucre clothed with long, silky, hairs, 

 receptacle glabrous, pappus white, achenes very minute, 

 angles minute, sparingly silky. 



