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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
long, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, white, 
opaque. 
Use. — The, fresh leaves are bruised and applied to the wound 
under a rag. 
The authors of the Pharmacographia Indica write that 
“ other species (of Anaphalis) are used on the Nilgiris for cut 
wounds.” 
643. Gnaphalium luteo-album, Linn, h.f.b.i., 
nr. 288. 
Syn. G. orixense and G. albo-luteum, Roxb. 600. 
Vern. : — Bal-iaksha (Pb.). 
Habitat : — From Kashmir and Sikkim throughout India. 
A woolly, very variable annual, 4-12in. high. Stem 
corymbosely branched above. Leaves woolly on both surfaces, 
sessile l-2in. long, rarely more than |in. broad, oblong- 
spathulate, obtuse ; upper lanceolate acute, half-amplexicaul. 
When leafless, there are instead dense corymbose clusters of 
glistening heads, whitish yellow or brown. Involucre- bracts 
oblong obtuse. Achenes tubercled, or with minute curved 
bristles. 
Use : — The leaves are said to be officinal in the bazaars of 
the Punjab (Watt). 
644. Inula racemosa, Hook. /. h.f.b.i., iii. 292. 
Vern. : — Rasan (Arab.) ; Zanjabil-i-Shami (Pers.). Poshkar 
(Kashmir). 
Habitat : — Western Himalaya ; on the borders of fields, &c., 
Kashmir and Piti. 
Tall stout herbs, 1 -5ft., stem grooved, scabrid. Leaves 
scabrid above, densely tomentose beneath, crenate, radical 8-18 
by 5-8in., narrowed into a petiole as long, elliptic-lanceolate ; 
cauline often deeply lobed at the base, oblong, |-amplexicaul. 
Heads many, very large l|-2in. diam., racemed. Outer 
involucre bracts broad, with recurved triangular tips ; lignles 
