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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
of the urine in (Joses of 180 grains mixed with salt (Dr. Peters, 
in Watt’s Dictionary). 
650 . Wedelia calendulacea, Lees, h.f.b.i., HI 306 . 
Syn. :-*-Verbesina calendulacea, Linn; Roxb. 606. 
Sans. : — Pfta-bliringi ; Bhringaraja. 
Fern.: — Bangra, Kesaraja (B.) ; Bhanra (H); Pivala bhan- 
gra (Bomb.) ; Pivalamaka (Mar.). 
Habitat : — In wet places, Assam, Silliet, and the Eastern 
and Western Peninsulas. 
A scentless, tasteless perennial herb. Stem short, 6-18in., 
procumbent at base and rooting at the nodes, then ascending, 
cylindrical, slightly rough, with adpressed hair. Leaves l-3in., 
variable in breadth, opposite, nearly sessile, oblong, strap-shaped, 
or oblong-oval, tapering to base, acute, sparingly and shallowly 
serrate or entire, slightly rough with adpressed, rigid, white hair 
on both sides. Heads yellow, solitary, few, on very long, erect 
axillary (apparently terminal) peduncles, about fin. diam. Bracts 
few, 5-8, fin., leafy oblong, obtuse, inner 2 or 3 much smaller. 
Receptacle flat, with a linear, acute, hyaline, ciliate bractlet to 
each flower. Ray-flowers 8-12, spreading, about equalling' bracts, 
broad, deeply 2-3ft. toothed; disk-flowers about 20, short, narrow- 
ed acute, recurved. Achene nearly cylindric, pubescent, shorter 
than bractlet, crowned with a shallow ring of short, scarious, 
ciliate scales (Trimen). 
Uses : — The leaves are used in dyeing grey hair and in pro- 
moting the growth of hair. They are considered tonic, alter- 
ative and useful in cough, cephalalgia, skin diseases and 
alopecia. The juice of the leaves is much used as a snuff in 
cephalalgia. (Dutt). The seeds, flowers, as well as the leaves, 
are used in decoction, in the quantity of half a teacupful twice 
daily, as deobstruent (Ainslie). 
In decoction, the plant is used in uterine hiemorrhage and 
menorrhagia (S. Arjun). 
