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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
cobwebby or cottony above thickly white, tomentose beneath ; 
long or shortrpetioled lobes or segments contiguous, broad, 
sometimes crisped, teeth acute or mueronate. Heads 3-30, 
f-lin. diam., sessile or shortly peduncled. Peduncles stout, 
tomentose, often cottony at the base. Involucral bracts f-l|in., 
scabrid or smooth, erect, scarious ; outer involucral bracts ovate 
lanceolate; inner elliptic-lanceolate, long, acuminate. Receptacle 
bristles very rigid, much shorter than the ackenes united into 
laciniate cups. Anther-tails lacerate. Corolla 1-1 jin. Achenes 
large, cuneate, obovate, unequally 4-5-angled, tubercied, i-^in., 
curved, compressed, truncate, ashy grey. Pappus copious, lin., 
brown hairs cohering at base. “ The roots, called Dhup, are 
collected and used by Hindus as incense (Aitchison). 
Use: — The bruised root is applied to eruptions, and a 
decoction is given in colic. It is also considered cordial and 
given in puerperal fever (Dr. Stewart). 
685. Tricholepis glaberrima, do. h.f.b.i, iii. 381, 
Vern.: — Brahmadandi (M.). Motabor (Bom). 
Habitat : —Central India, Merwara, the Concan, and the 
Deccan. 
An annual, slender, unarmed herb, quite glabrous, erect, rigid. 
Branches slender, angled and ribbed, quite smooth. Leaves 
sessile, 2-3in. long, linear oblong, or lanceolate, acute, entire or 
serrate, scaberulous and covered with raised points, prominently 
nerved ; base simple or auricled. Heads small, ovoid ?-iin. diam. 
Involucre-bracts subulate from a lanceolate base, sub-erect. 
Receptacle bristles narrowly linear, exceeding the pappus. 
Achenes oblong, faintly ribbed, twice as long as the pappus. 
Use : — Believed to be a nervine tonic and an aphrodisiac, 
and used in seminal debility. (S Arjun.) 
686. T. montana, Dalzell and Gibson, h.f.b.i., 
iii. 383. 
Vern. : -Utakatara (M.). 
Habitat: — The Western Ghauts. 
