718 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
value, 129-8 to 149*03 ; lteichert-Meissl value, 0-0 ; refraction at 40°, 65*2 ; acid 
Value, 0 70 to 20-02 ; optical activity in 200 m.m. tube + 4' to + 14' ; fatty 
acids, per cent. 95'4 ; solidifying point, 16°; neutralisation value, 190. 
The saturated fatty acids contained in this oil consist of palmitic and 
stearic acids. Le Suenr found the liquid fatty acids to be oleic and linolic 
acids. Tylaikoff confirms the presence of oleic and linolic and linolenic acids. 
Lewkowitsch determined the amount of unsaponifiable matter in several 
samples to be 1*5 percent., and the true acetyl value he found to be 161, 12-85 
and 12-78. (Agricultural Ledger 1911-12— No. 5). 
689 — Dicoma tomentosa, Gass., h.f.b.i., hi. 387 . 
V ern.: — Navananji-cha-pala (Bel gaum). 
Habitat: — North-West India ; Dhoulpoor ; Scind ; Western 
Peninsula ; from the Concan southwards, in gravelly places. 
An erect annual, 10-18in. high, much branched, clothed with 
white cottony wool ; branches terete. Leaves sessile, linear or 
linear ovate, obtuse or acute, quite entire, l-3in., glabrate or 
cottony above, nerves obscure. Heads many, subaxillary, glab- 
rous. Spines of involucre-bracts yellowish, shining. Bracts £-|in. 
subulate, straight, glabrous. Corolla £in., outer pappus elastic, 
shining, bristles slender, inner £in. long, narrowly subulate, 
lanceolate, pale-brown, strongly ribbed, membranous and hyaline, 
margins undulate. Achenes broad and short, yin. long, turbi- 
nate, densely silky. 
Use : — The herb is strongly bitter, and is used in the neigh- 
bourhood of Belgaum as a febrifuge, especially in the febrile 
attacks to which women are subject after childbirth (Peters). 
690 — Gichorium Intybus, Linn., h.f.b.i., iii. 391 . 
V ern .: — Kasni (H.) ; Kasbini-virai (Tam.) ; Kdsini-vittulu 
(Tel.) ; Hand, gul, suchal, k&sni (Pb.) ; Kasani (Guz.). 
Habitat : — Nortb-West India; Kumaun. 
Perennial herbs. Root fleshy, tapering, Stems and leaf nerves 
beneath hispid. Stem l-3ft., angled and grooved. Branches 
rigid, spreading. Leaves runcinate, oblong-lanceolate, upper 
cordate, amplexicaul. Heads l-l^in. diam. solitary and terminal 
and axillary, clustered. Peduncle thickened in the middle. 
