BAHIA

[Lasgac.] (Lat.), n. f. Ba-e’a’, From the Brazilian name. A genus of composite plants of the tribe Helenioideæ. [B, 42.|—B. a rach no idea (Fischer, Meyer]. The butterfly-plant; à Caiifornia species, a foot to 2 feet high, woody at the base, loosely floccose, and with a broadly campanulate or hemispherical involucre surrounding small, bright-yellow flower-heads. It is used as a bitter tonic for consumptives and persons convalescent from fevers and in cases where the digestive power is impaired. [* Proc. of the Am. Pharm. A oc.,” xxvii, p. 608 (B).|—B. artemisizefolla [Lep.], B. confertiflora [De Candolle]. Two California species enumerated among the medicinal Henle of the State. [** Proc. of the Am. Pharm, A oc.,” xix, p. 297(B).]—B. powder. Ger.,. See ARAROBA.