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pale, polymorphous, inner sometimes as if compressed, of 4 

 thick ribs, outer slightly curved and flattened, with a thick 

 ventral and several thick dorsal ribs, all smooth and obs- 

 curely uneven. Pappus i-iin., very diciduous, hairs very 

 straight, soft and of nearly equal length. 



Use:— In the Southern Punjab, the plant is used medicinally 

 in sharbat (Stewart). 



700, L. pinnatifida (lass, h.f.b.i., hi. 416. 



Vern. : — Pathri (Bomb.); Ban-kahu (Sind.) ; Almirao (Goa). 



The juice known as khee khowa (Sind). 



Habitat : — Sandy coasts of India, from Bengal to Ceylon, 

 Madras and Malabar. 



Perennial glabrous herb, juice yellow. Leaves runcinate 

 pinnitifid or sinuate, toothed or lobed, l-3in., rarely more, 

 teeth rarely white and cartilaginous. Flowering stems 

 procumbent, long, flagelliform, rooting and leafing at the 

 nodes, l-3ft. long, arching from node to node. Heads at 

 the nodes solitary or clustered, Jin. long, usually with 

 bracteate peduncles. Involucre-bracts almost 3-seriate, with 

 white membranous margins, outer short, immediate longer, 

 inner linear ; midrib at the base hardening in fruit. Achenes 

 columnar, very thickly ribbed, much shorter than the soft white 

 straight deciduous pappus, T ^in. pale, set with a few very thick 

 rounded ribs, usually obtusely 4-gonous, pappus £in. 



Uses : — Used at Goa as a substitute for Taraxacum. In 

 Bombay, it is given to buffaloes to promote the secretion of milk 

 (Dymock). 



The juice is used as a soporific for children, in doses of half 

 a massa, and is externally applied in rheumatic affections, 

 combined with the oil of Pongamia glabra or the juice of the 

 leaves of Vitex leucoxylon. (Murray.) 



N. 0. GOODENOVIAiE. 

 701. Sccevola Koenigic, Valil h.f.b.i., hi. 421 

 Boxb. 177 (under S. Taccada). 

 Vern. : — Bhadrak (Bomb.). 



