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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Habitat. — North-Western India ; Banda ; Western Peninsula ; 
common in fields. 
Annual or biennial herbs, l-4ft. high, with radical leaves, tall, 
glabrous. Stem hollow below, often very stout and much branch- 
ed. Radical leaves 6-12in., very irregularly pinnatifid, teetb 
cartilaginous ; these leaves are narrowed at the base. The upper 
leaves are runcinate pinnatifid, finely spinulose or ciliate-tootlied, 
membranous. The cauline leaves few, narrower, 4-amplexicanl, 
auricled. Flowering stems slender, branches erect. Heads fin. 
long, solitary or fascicled ; fascicles distant, spiked or sub- 
racemose ; rarely peduncled, bracteate. Inner involucre-bracts, 
with thickened ribs in fruit. Achenes ^in., oblanceolate, then 
suddenly contracted, shortly beaked, muricate, black, half the 
length of the flexuous silver persistent pappus. 
Use. — It is used as a substitute for Taraxacum, and is called 
by the Portugese Taraxaco (Pharmacographia Indica, Yol. II., 
p. 319). 
694 — L. remotiflora, DC. h.f.b.i., iii . 403 . 
Vern. : — Undira-cha-kan (Mar.). 
Habitat — Banda and Sind. 
A smaller and more delicate plant than the preceding, 
with smaller obovate and nearly entire rarely pinnatifid radical 
leaves. Flowering stems less branched. Heads usually solitary 
on the naked branches, distinctly peduncled. Achenes 4-in., 
nearly as long as the soft silvery persistent pappus. 
Use : — The whole plant is used as a substitute for Taraxa- 
cum at Goa, and is called by the Portuguese, Taraxaco ( Dy- 
mock). 
695 — L. Scariola, Linn., h.f.b.i., hi. 404 . 
Syn. : — L. Sativa. Roxb. 593. 
Eng. : — The garden lettuce, cultivated throughout India. 
Vern. : — Kahoo, Salid, Kbas (H.) ; SAlAd , Kahu (B.) ; 
Habitat : — Western Himalaya, from Murree to Kunawar., 
