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PLANTS OP CHUTIA NAGPUR 
502. Gnaphaliam luteo-album Linn. 
503. Gnaphalium indicum Linn. ^ 
Sirguja, 1,500 — 2,000 teet; on dry grassy (maidan) open 
ground ; flowers white. 
504. Gnaphalium pulvinatum Del. 
505. Caesulia axillaris Roxb. 
Pitorea, 2,000 — 2,500 feet, on the east hill, dry ; granitic 
gneiss, rocky j Jaspurnagar, 2,000 — 2, 500 feet j in wet 
rice fields. 
Vern — Ghetia-kena (Jaspur) ; not eaten. A similar 
plant, if not the same, is used as a vegetable (sag) for 
food, but it grows on the maidan and so is dry. 
506. Vicoa auriculata Cass. 
Jabra, Hezaribagh, 1,000—1,500 feet ; Jaspur, 2,000 — 2,500 
feet. 
507. Pulicaria angustifolia DC. 
Jaspur, 2,000—2,500 feet, on jungle ground. 
Vern — Hurhuria. This plant has milky juice when on 
cultivated ground. 
508. Xanthium strumarium Linn. 
509. Siegesbeckia orientalis Linn. 
Jaspur, 1,500 — 2,000 feet. 
Vern. — Bhuseri. 
510. Eclipta alba 
Jaspur. 
Vern.^Bengana. Flowers white. 
51?. Wedelia Wallichii 
Santalia (Campbell & Watt). 
512. Blainvillea latifolia DC. 
513. Spilanthes Acmella 
Ranchi. 
Vern. — Barbari'a. 
514. Guizotia abyssinica Cass. 
Bulrampur, Manbhum 500 — 1,000 feet ; grown in fields 
largely, to 2,500 feet. 
Vern. — Sirguja ; sirgujia ; ram til ; kala til ; ginjeri : this 
last is the local name in the State of Sirguja itself. 
An oil-seed — ^ Black Niger’ of commerce. 
515. Glossocardia linearifolia Cass. 
516. Cosmos sulphureus Cav. 
517. Bidens pilosa Z/«;z. 
Var. bipinnata. 
Mahretta Tea State Hazaribagh, 2,000—2,500 feet. 
