The very woolly white undersurfaces of the leaves, which, however, Kurz unites with balsamifera, perhaps as Clarke thinks rightly, but the Corolla-lobes in this are hairy, and very glandular in balsamifera.
Use : —The juice of the plant is administered as a carminative, and the herb used along with the leaves of Vitex Negundo and Careya arborea for fomentations. A warm infusion is given as a sudorific in catarrhal affections, cold it is considered to be diuretic and emmenagogue.
637. B. densiflora, DC, h.f.b.i., iii. 269.
Syn. : — B. grandis, D.C ; B, Milnei, Seem.
Vern. : — Pung-ma-theing (Burm.).
Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya ; Sikkim ; Assam ; Mishmi and Naga Hills, and Khasia Mountains.
Herbs with a stout stem. Panicles and leaves beneath densely tomentose, or clothed with thick white felted wool. Leaves very large, 8-18in., broadly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed into a long, winged, sometimes appendaged, petiole, puberulous above serrate-toothed or pinnatifid. Heads ¼in. diam ; sessile, in rounded clusters, in a large branched panicle. Invo- lucre-bracts narrow, rather rigid. Receptacle narrow, glabrous. Corolla-lobes of hermaphrodite flowers hairy. Pappus red. Achenes 10-ribbed, pubescent (J. D. Hooker).
Use :— A few years ago, Mr. E. O'Riley prepared camphor from this plant which was pronounced identical with that imported from China (Watt).
638. B. balsamifera, DC, h.f.b.l, iii. 270.
Syn. : — Conyza balsamifera, Linn. Roxb. 601.
Vern. : — Kakarondâ (H.) ; Kalâhâd (Guz.) ; Bhamburdâ (Mar.).
Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya ; Nepal and Sikkim, Assam, Khasia Mountains, Chittagong, and the Eastern Peninsula.
An erect, green, short-lived shrub, or small tree, branches,
