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decoction of the root and leaves, with. cumin and butter i 
milk, is given on the Malabar Coast in dysuria, and in diar= be 
rhoea and dysentery, Ainslie calls it Prickly-leaved Elephant’s 
Foot, and remarks that Sloane and Browne, in speaking of this 
plant, say, it is accounted a good vulnerary, and grows in the — 
woods of Jamaica very plentifully; the leaves are frequently — 
ants of the French West India Islands. The plant has a 
fibrous root; the leaves are chiefly radical and spread flat upon — 
the ground; they are oblong, wrinkled, crenulate and very . 
hairy ; the flower stalk is branched, about a foot high, bearing — 
a few small leaves and heads of flowers with pale purple 
florets. The plant is mucilaginous and astringent. The ver- 
nacular names are Gobhi (Hind.), Gojialata (Beny.), Ci 
(Mar.), Ana-shovadi (Tam.), Hakkariké (Can.). ; 
Lamprachenium microcephalum, Benth., je 
plant of Western India called Aja-dandi and Brahma-dandi — 
in Sanskrit, and Brahmadandi in Marathi and Canarese. It i” 
_ has flowers which smell like chamomile, and a branched, s¢a-_ : 
brous pubescent stem; leaves petioled, elliptic-acuminate, — 
gradually attenuated iatio the petiole, pubescent above, hoary 
and tomentose beneath ; heads of flowers small, solitary at . 
the. apex of the elie ce 3 scales of the involucre squariose, | 
hoary and tomentose beneath, exterior ones lanceolate acumi- 
nate, bristle-pointed, ciliated ; seeds smooth, shining, without 
ribs. The plant is used medicinally as an aromatic ity but 
is of little importance as a medicine. 
Ageratum conyzoides, Linn., has a strong, aromatic, 
and rather disagreeable smell; it has a reputation among the 
Hindus as an external application in agues, and is also worn ~ 
asa charm against ague when dug up on Sunday with the — 
proper ceremonies. The juice is said to be a good remedy ie 
prolapsus ani. It is freely applied and the gut replace 
Corre and Lejanne state that the plant i is used as a sudorific 1 = 
Réunion under the name of Herbe & boue. A. con pis 
' sometimes confounded by the natives with Vernonia cinerea, 
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