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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
paring antiseptic and anodyne fomentations (Ainslie, Mat. 
Ind. I., p. 483.) 
The juice of the leaves is employed as an instillation for ear- 
ache (Kinsley, in Watt’s Dictionary). 
634. Erigeronasteroid.es, Roxb. H f.b.i., hi. 254 ; 
Roxb. 603. 
Vern. — Maredi, Sonsali (Bomb ). 
Habitat. — Tropical Himalaya ; Nepal, Sikkim, Bengal and 
the Western Peninsula. 
A coarse annual, l-2ft. high, erect, or in a dwarf state, 
decumbent; pubescent or villous. Branched. Radical leaves 
obovate, petioled. Caul ine leaves i-lin., numerous, obovate or 
oblong, 5 -amplexicaul, all toothed or lobulate. Involucre- 
bracts 1-2-seriate, very narrow, with their hair points much 
shorter than the pappus. Heads J-§in., peduncled, solitary or 
corymbose. Ligules capillary, rather blue, longer than the 
dirty white or reddish pappus. Acbenes very minute, sjjin., 
nearly glabrous, flat, pale. 
Use*. — Dr. Dymock writes that he noticed it, being offered 
for sale in the bazaar as a stimulating and diuretic medicine. 
Several species of Erigeron are used as diuretic in America. 
635. Blumea lacera, DC., h. f.b.i., hi. 263. 
Syn. — Conyza lacera, Roxb. 601 
Sans. — Kukuradru. 
Vern. — Kokronda, Kukkurbanda, Jangli-mtali (H.) ; Kukur- 
sunga, bura-sfiksung (B.) ; Nimurdi (Bomb.); Jangli-kasni, 
jangli-mulli, divari-mulli (Duk.) ; Narak-karandai, Kattu- 
mull&ngi (Tam.); Karn pogaku, advi-mulangi (Tel.). 
“ Kakronda and other vernacular names are applied to more 
than one allied species of Blumea and Laggera, without much 
regard to the color of their flowers” (Moodeen Sheriff). 
Habitat : — Throughout the plains of India, from the N.-W. 
Himalaya to Travancore. 
A hairy, villous, or glandular, rarely glabrescent herb, stem 
erect, simple or branched very leafy, rarely 2ft. high. Leaves 
