678 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



The very woolly white undersurfaces of the leaves, which, 

 however, Knrz unites with balsamifera, perhaps as Clarke thinks 

 rightly, bat the Corolla-lobes in this are hairy, and very glan- 

 dular in balsamifera. 



Use : —The juice of the plant is administered as a carmina- 

 tive, and the herb used along with the leaves of Vitex Negundo 

 and Careya arborea for fomentations. A warm infusion is given 

 as a sudorific in catarrhal affections, cold it is considered to be 

 diuretic and emmenagogue. 



637. B. densiflora, DC, h.f.b.i., hi. 269. 



Syn. : — B. grandis, D.C ; B, Milnei, Seem. 



Vern. : — Pung-ma-theing (Burm.). 



Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya ; Sikkim ; Assam ; Mishmi 

 and Naga Hills, and Khasia Mountains. 



Herbs with a stout stem. Panicles and leaves beneath dense- 

 ly tomentose, or clothed with thick white felted wool. Leaves 

 very large, 8-18in., broadly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, narrow- 

 ed into a long, winged, sometimes appendaged, petiole, pube- 

 rulous above serrate-toothed or pinnatifid. Heads ^in. diam ; 

 sessile, in rounded clusters, in a large branched panicle. Invo- 

 lucre-bracts narrow, rather rigid. Receptacle narrow, glabrous. 

 Corolla-lobes of hermaphrodite flowers hairy. Pappus red. 

 Achenes 10-ribbed, pubescent (J. D. Hooker). 



Use :— A few years ago, Mr. E. O'Riley prepared camphor 

 from this plant which was pronounced identical with that im- 

 ported from China (Watt). 



638. B. balsamifera, DC, h.f.b.l, hi. 270. 

 Syn. : — Conyza balsamifera, Linn. Roxb. 601. 



Vern. : — Kakaronda (H.) ; Kalahad (Guz.) ; Bhamburda 

 (Mar.;. 



Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya ; Nepal and Sikkim, Assam, 

 Khasia Mountains, Chittagong, and the Eastern Peninsula. 



An erect, green, short-lived shrub, or small tree, branches, 



