722 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Habitat. — North- Western India ; Band a ; Western Peninsula ; 

 common in fields. 



Annual or biennial herbs, l-4ft. high, with radical leaves, tall, 

 glabrous. Stem hollow below, often very stout and much branch- 

 ed. Radical leaves 6-12in., very irregularly pinnatifid, teeth 

 cartilaginous ; these leaves are narrowed at the base. The upper 

 leaves are runcinate pinnatifid, finely spinulose or ciliate-toothed, 

 membranous. The cauline leaves few, narrower, \ -amplexicaul, 

 auricled. Flowering stems slender, branches erect. Heads Jin. 

 long, solitary or fascicled ; fascicles distant, spiked or sub- 

 racemose ; rarely peduncled, bracteate. Inner involucre-bracts, 

 with thickened ribs in fruit. Achenes j^'m., oblanceolate, then 

 suddenly contracted, shortly beaked, muricate, black, half the 

 length of the flexuous silver persistent pappus. 



Use. — It is used as a substitute for Taraxacum, and is called 

 by the Portugese Taraxaco (Pharmacographia Indica, Vol. II., 

 p. 319). 



694 — L. remotiflora, DC. h.f.b.l, hi. 403. 

 Vern. :— Undira-cha-kan (Mar.). 



Habitat : — Banda and Sind. 



A smaller and more delicate plant than the preceding, 

 with smaller obovate and nearly entire rarely pinnatifid radical 

 leaves. Flowering stems less branched. Heads usually solitary 

 on the naked branches, distinctly peduncled. Achenes J-in., 

 nearly as long as the soft silvery persistent pappus. 



Use : — The whole plant is used as a substitute for Taraxa- 

 cum at Goa, and is called by the Portuguese, Taraxaco ( Dy- 

 mock). 



695 — L. Seariola, Linn., h.f.b.l, hi. 404. 



Syn. : — L. Sativa. Eoxb. 593. 



Eng. : — The garden lettuce, cultivated throughout India. 

 Vern. :— Kahoo, Salad, Khas (H.); Salad, Kahu (B.) ; 

 Habitat : — Western Himalaya, from Murree to Kunawar., 



