COMPOSITZ. 941 
Royle (Antiquity of Hindu Med., p. 82,) mentions the use of 
Hardwickii, Wail., for medicinal purposes in Nepal. 
allich (Pl, As. Rar., p. 40), speaking of the same plant, 
ys: ‘ Nomen omnium specierum in Napalia, Chamaha.” 
COMPOSITA. 
VERNONIA ANTHELMINTICA, Willd. 
Fig.—Burm. Thes. 210, t. 95 ; Rheede Hort. Mal. ti., t. 24. 
Hab.— Throughout India. The fruit. 
Vernacular.—Kali-jiri, Somraj, Bakchi (Hind.), Somraj 
(Beng.), Kadvo-jiri (Guz.), K4ttu-shiragam (Tam.), Kéralyé 
(Mar.), Adavi-jilakara (Tel.), Kadu-jirage (Can.). 
History, Uses, &c.—The Sanskrit names of this com- 
id water, after perspiration has been induced by exercise or 
€xposure to the sun. The diet should consist of milk and rice, 
Tn Ramgelge a decoction of emblic care and catechu 
8s paste, oil, &c. Vdkuchiis described in the Nighantas as 
Sweet, pungent, digestive, bitter, alterative, astringent, cold, 
cardiacal, dry, antiphlegmatic ; a remedy for cough, fever, and 
intestinal worms. The author of the Makhzan-el-Adwiya de- 
ribes Kali-jiri, and states that it is given internally to remove 
I = and worms from the intestines, and that a Pe 
