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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
The very woolly white undersurfaces of the leaves, which, 
however, Kurz unites with balsamifera, perhaps as Clarke thinks 
rightly, but the Corolla-lobes in this are hairy, and very glan- 
dular in balsamifera. 
Use : —The juice of the plant is administered as a carmina- 
tive, and the herb used along with the leaves of Vitex Negundo 
and Careya arborea for fomentations. A warm infusion is given 
as a sudorific in catarrhal affections, cold it is considered to be 
diuretic and emmenagogue. 
637. B. densiflora, DC., h.f.b.i., iii. 269. 
Syn. : — B. grandis, D.C ; B. Milnei, Seem. 
Vern. : — Pung-ma-theing (Burm.). 
Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya ; Sikkim ; Assam ; Mishmi 
and Naga Hills, and Khasia Mountains. 
Herbs with a stout stem. Panicles and leaves beneath dense- 
ly tomentose, or clothed' with thick white felted wool. Leaves 
very large, 8-18in., broadly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, narrow- 
ed into a long, winged, sometimes appendaged, petiole, pube- 
rulous above serrate-toothed or pinnatifid. Heads £in. diam ; 
sessile, in rounded clusters, in a large branched panicle. Invo- 
lucre-bracts narrow, rather rigid. Receptacle narrow, glabrous. 
Corolla-lobes of hermaphrodite flowers hairy. Pappus red. 
Achenes 10-ribbed, pubescent (J. D. Hooker). 
Use : — A few years ago, Mr. E. O’Riley prepared camphor 
from this plant which was pronounced identical with that im- 
ported from China (Watt). 
638. B. balsamifera, DC. h.f.b.i., iii. 270. 
Syn. : — Conyza balsamifera, Linn. Roxb. 601. 
Vern. : — Kakaronda (H.) ; Kalahad (Guz.) ; Bhamburda 
(Mar.). 
Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya ; Nepal and Sikkim, Assam, 
Khasia Mountains, Chittagong, and the Eastern Peninsula. 
An erect, green, short-lived shrub, or small tree, branches, 
