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pale, polymorphous, inner sometimes as if compressed, of 4 
thick ribs, outer slightly curved and flattened, with a thick 
ventral and several thick dorsal ribs, all smooth and obs- 
curely uneven. Pappus |-|in., very; diciduous, hairs very 
straight, soft and of nearly equal length. 
Use : — In the Southern Punjab, the plant is used medicinally 
in sharbat (Stewart). 
700. L. pinnatifida (lass, h.f.b.i., iii. 416. 
Vern. : — P&thri (Bomb.); Ban-kahu (Sind.) ; Almirao (Goa). 
The juice known as khee khowa (Sind). 
Habitat : — Sandy coasts of India, from Bengal to Ceylon, 
Madras and Malabar. 
Perennial glabrous herb, juice yellow. Leaves runcinate 
pinnitifid or sinuate, toothed or lobed, l-3in., rarely more, 
teeth rarely white and cartilaginous. Flowering stems 
procumbent, long, flagelliform, rooting and leafing at the 
nodes, l-3ft. long, arching from node to node. Heads at 
the nodes solitary or clustered, I’m. long, usually with 
bracteate peduncles. Involucre-bracts almost 3-seriate, with 
white membranous margins, outer short, immediate longer, 
inner linear; midrib at the base hardening in fruit. Achenes 
columnar, very thickly ribbed, much shorter than the soft white 
straight deciduous pappus, T ' 2 in. pale, set with a few very thick 
rounded ribs, usually obtusely 4-gonous, pappus { i n 
Uses : — Used at Goa as a substitute for Taraxacum. In 
Bombay, it is given to buffaloes to promote the secretion of milk 
(Dymock). 
The juice is used as a soporific for children, in doses of half 
a massa, and is externally applied in rheumatic affections, 
combined with the oil of Pongamia glabra or the juice of the 
leaves of Vitex leucoxylon. (Murray. f 
N. 0. GOODENOVIA.iE. 
701. SccBvola Koenigic , Vahl h.f.b.i., hi. 421 
Roxb. 177 ( under S. Taccada). 
Vern. : — Bhadrak (Bomb.). 
