N. O. COMPOSITE. 
711 
‘Diosoorides affirmed that the seeds being drunk are a remedy 
for infants that have their sinews drawn together, and for those 
that be bitten of serpents ; and we find in a record of old Saxon 
remedies, that' this wort, if hung upon a man’s neck, it setteth 
6nakes to flight.’ [Sowerby’s Eng. Bot., V., p. 5]. 
680. Sassurea obvallata, Wall., h.f.b.i., ill. 365- 
Fern. : — Bergandu tongur (Kutnaon) ; Kanwal, Birm-kanwal 
(Pb.) 
Habitat : — Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim. 
A simple pubescent, or glabrate herb. Root very thick, 
crowned with blackened remanis of petioles. Stem simple, 
leafy, 6-lSin., as thick as a little finger or less, terminated by 
the curved bladdery veined, translucent leaves, which form a 
pale head 3-Gin. diain. Leaves 4-oin., glabrous, obtuse toothed, 
lower petioled, elongate-obovate, cauline, sessile, J-amplexicnul 
oblong concave, floral cymbiform membranous, enclosing 2-6 
sessile or shortly ped uncled glabrous heads. Heads Lf in. 
diam., hemispheric. Corolla -Jin.; anther-tails very shot t, b.ci- 
niate. Achenes ovoid, flattened, glabrous, ribbed. Pappus 
brown, £in., outer bristles scabrid or 0. 
Use : — The root is used for application to bruises and cuts 
(Duthieh 
681. S. candicans, Clarke, h.f.b.i., hi. 373. 
Vern. : — Batula ; Kaliziri (Pb.). 
Habitat : — Subtropical and Temperate Western India and 
the Himalaya, from the Salt Range, Hazara, and Kashmir to 
Bhotan. 
Herbs, with 2-5ft. stem, simple below. Inflorescence cottony. 
Leaves sometimes 18 by 5in., oblong or ovate-oblong, entire 
or sinuate-toothed, or lobulate at the base, or lyrate-pinna- 
tifid, glabrous or pubescent above, cottony or white tomentose, 
rarely glabrous beneath. Heads 1-l^in. diam, long, peduncles 
in large, open, panicled corymbs. Involucre-bracts, cottony or 
pubescent, lanceolate, acuminate. Receptacle bristles long. 
Corolla upward of £in. loDg, anther-tails lacerate. Achenes sin., 
