N. 0. COMPOSITE. 
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petioled obovate, toothed or senate, rarely lobulate. Heads £in., 
in sliort axillary cymes and collected in terminal spicifonn 
panicles, rarely corymbose. Involucre-bracts narrow, acuminate, 
hairy. Receptacle glabrous. Corolla yellow, lobes of herma- 
phrodite flowers nearly glabrous, pappus white. Achenes sub- 
4-gonens, not ribbed, glabrate. 
Uses : — The fresh root held in the mouth is said to relieve 
dryness (U. 0. Dutt). 
Mixed with black pepper it is given in cholera (Watt). 
The expressed juice of the leaves is a useful anthelmintic, 
especially in cases of thread-worm, either internally or applied 
locally (Surg. J. Anderson, Bijnor). Used by many Hospital 
Assistants and highly thought of by them as a febrifuge and 
astringent. Is an invaluable remedy in Tinea Tarsi (Asst.- 
Surg. Bollye Chand Sen, Campbell Med. School, Sealdah), 
in Watt’s Dictionary. 
The expressed juice of the leaves, mixed with black pepper, 
is given in bleeding piles. 
It is also given in retention of urine 
636. B. erianthn, DC., h.f.b.i., t it 266. 
Vern. : — Nimurdi (Mar.). 
“ Under the names of Bhamburdi Mar.) Kalara and Chan- 
chari-mari, 1 flea-killer ’ ( Gaz .), several kinds of Bhumea are 
used indiscriminately by the natives of Western India ” (Phar- 
macographia Indica, Vol. II., p. 255). 
Habitat : — The Concan ; Banda. 
A prostrate or decumbent herb, pubescent or tomentose, or 
clothed with scattered long hairs, rarely silky, villous. Stems 
lft., very slender, dichotomously divaricately branched from 
the base. Leaves l-3in., acutely irregularly toothed, the teeth 
often subspinescent ; lower leaves petioled, obovate, obtuse, upper 
sessile, obovate or oblong-acute. Heads small, £-|in. mostly, on 
the long slender peduncles of dichotomous cymes, rarely. fasci- 
cled. Peduncles and involucre clothed with long, silky, hairs, 
receptacle glabrous, pappus white, achenes very minute, 
angles minute, sparingly silky. 
