714 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



cobwebby or cottony above thickly white, tomentose beneath ; 

 long or short-petioled lobes or segments contiguous, broad, 

 sometimes crisped, teeth acute or mucronate. Heads 3-30, 

 |-1 in. diam., sessile or shortly peduncled. Peduncles* stout, 

 tomentose, often cottony at the base. Involucrai bracts f-liin., 

 scabrid or smooth, erect, scarious ; outer involucrai bracts ovate 

 lanceolate ; inner elliptic-lanceolate, long, acuminate. Receptacle 

 bristles very rigid, much shorter than the achenes united into 

 laciniate cups. Anther-tails lacerate. Corolla 1-1 Jin. Achenes 

 large, cuneate, obovate, unequally 4-5-angled, tubercled, i-fin., 

 curved, compressed, truncate, ashy grey. Pappus copious, lin., 

 brown hairs cohering at base. " The roots, called Dhup, are 

 collected and used by Hindus as incense (Aitchison). 



Use : —The bruised root is applied to eruptions, and a 

 decoction is given in colic. It is also considered cordial and 

 given in puerperal fever (Dr. Stewart). 



685. Tricholepis glaberrima, do. h.f.b.i, hi. 381, 



Vern.\ — Brahmadandi (M.). Motabor (Bom). 



Habitat : —Central India, Merwara, the Concan, and the 

 Deccan. 



An annual, slender, unarmed herb, quite glabrous, erect, rigid. 

 Branches slender, angled and ribbed, quite smooth. Leaves 

 sessile, 2-3in. long, linear oblong, or lanceolate, acute, entire or 

 serrate, scaberulous and covered with raised points, prominently 

 nerved ; base simple or auricled. Heads small, ovoid J-fin. diam. 

 Involucre-bracts subulate from a lanceolate base, sub-erect. 

 Receptacle bristles narrowly linear, exceeding the pappus. 

 Achenes oblong, faintly ribbed, twice as long as the pappus. 



Use : — Believed to be a nervine tonic and an aphrodisiac, 

 and used in seminal debility. (S Arjun.) 



686. T. montana, Dalzell and Gibson, h.f.b.i., 

 hi. 383. 



Vern. : -Utakatara (M.). 

 Habitat :— The Western Ghauts. 



