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tomentose beneath. Scapes 1, or more, 4-10in., tomemose ; bright 
yellow, drooping in bud, 1-1A in. Flowers, female, multiseriate, 
fertile ligule narrow, spreading. Disk-flowers hermaphrodite, 
sterile, tubular, limb-elongate 5-fid. Involucre campanulate or 
cylindric ; bracts 1-seriate, equal, with a few very small outer 
ones. Receptacle flat, naked. Anther-bases entire, or subauricled, 
style-arms of hermaphrodite flowers entire, obtuse. Achenes 
of female flowers linear, 5-10-ribbed, with soft snow-white 
pappus. 
Uses : — The leaves are sometimes applied to wounds (Ste- 
wart). In Europe, they are smoked like tobocco, as a domestic 
remedy for asthma. 
Pliny records its being used for smoking, and recommends, 
it as a remedy for obstinate colds and coughs, and recommends 
both the roots and leaves. 
Dr. Cullen recommends the use of the leaves in scrofula. 
According to him, the expressed juice of the fresh leaves, taken 
to some ounces every day, occasioned the healing up of scroful- 
ous sores; a strong decoction of the dried leaves seems to have 
answered the same purpose. 
670 . Doronicma Ilookeri, Clarke Mss., h.f.b.i., 
hi. 332 . 
Vern. : — Darunaj-akrabi (Pb.). 
Habitat Sikkim Himalaya ; Lachen and Tungu. 
A robust herb, l-2ft. high. Radical leaves 0, or soon 
withering; cauline 4-6 by l-2in., often unequal-sided. 
Leaves all narrowed into short, | atnplexicaul, petioles oblong or 
elliptic lanceolate, obtuse or acute, entire or irregularly toothed. 
Heads 2^in. diam. Involucre bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. 
Ligules about half as long. Achenes rife ; not seen, says Hooker. 
Pappus short, reddish. 
Use : — The root is an aromatic tonic, said to be used to pre- 
vent giddiness on ascending heights. (Baden-powell). 
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