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Rh petioled obovate, toothed or serrate, rarely tabulate. Heads ⅓in., in short axillary cymes and collected in terminal spiciform panicles, rarely corymbose. Involucre-bracts narrow, acuminate, hairy. Receptacle glabrous. Corolla yellow, lobes of hermaphrodite flowers nearly glabrous, pappus white. Achenes sub-4-gonens, not ribbed, glabrate.

Uses : — The fresh root held in the mouth is said to relieve dryness (U. C. Dutt).

Mixed with black pepper it is given in cholera (Watt).

The expressed juice of the leaves is a useful anthelmintic, especially in cases of thread-worm, either internally or applied locally (Surg. J. Anderson, Bijnor). Used by many Hospital Assistants and highly thought of by them as a febrifuge and astringent. Is an invaluable remedy in Tinea Tarsi (Asst.- Surg. Bollye Chand Sen, Campbell Med. School, Sealdah), in Watt's Dictionary.

The expressed juice of the leaves, mixed with black pepper, is given in bleeding piles.

It is also given in retention of urine

Vern. : — Nimurdi (Mar.).

" Under the names of Bhâmburdi (Mar.) Kalara and Chân-chari- mari, ' flea- killer ' (Guz.), several kinds of Bhumea are used indiscriminately by the natives of Western India " (Pharmacographia Indica, Vol. II., p. 255).

Habitat: — The Concan ; Banda.

A prostrate or decumbent herb, pubescent or tomentose, or clothed with scattered long hairs, rarely silky, villous. Stems 1ft., very slender, dichotomously divaricately branched from the base. Leaves 1-3in., acutely irregularly toothed, the teeth often subspinescent ; lower leaves petioled, obovate, obtuse, upper sessile, obovate or oblong-acute. Heads small, ¼-⅓in. mostly, on the long slender peduncles of dichotomous cymes, rarely fascicled. Peduncles and involucre clothed with long, silky, hairs, receptacle glabrous, pappus white, achenes very minute, angles minute, sparingly silky.