268 | - COMPOSITE. 
The following prescription is used in the Concan for teta- 
nus :—Maka Juice 1 tolé, juice of Lewcas seylanica (Tamba) 
}tol4, Ginger juice 2 tolds, juice of Vitew trifolia 1 tol, leaf 
juice of Sesbania grandiflora 3 tolfs; to be boiled with four 
times the quantity of cocoanat juice and a little rice and treacle 
to form a Khir, to be given twice a day. 
Description.—Z. alba is a small prostrate or ascending — 
plant, stem reddish; leaves linear or oblong-lanceolate, atten- — 
uated at the base, with waved edges, 1 to 4 inches long. The 
whole plant is rough to the touch from the presence of nume- 
rous adpressed white hairs; the structure of these is peculiar, 
the base is red and turned upwards, and upon it is attached a 
conical, white, glandular hair. The flower heads are in 
pairs, axillary or terminal, + to } of an inch in diameter, white 
or rarely yellow, one rai a peduncle twice as long as 
the other; the receptacle is flat, and furnished with bristle- 
like scales between the florets, ray-florets fertile or sterile ; 
dise-florets fertile, tubnlar;*achenes of the ray-florets 
ge eee aes ee eA 
triqnetrons, those of the dise i ala pappus toothed 5 
or 2-aristate. 
Wedelia calendulacea hasa eases, glabrous ow : 
scabrid stem, 6 to 18 inches in length, rooting at the lower nodes ; 
leaves 1 to 3 inches: long, variable in breadth, sub-sessile,, 
linear-oblong or oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, entire or sub-. — 
crenate, hairs on both sides scattered, adpressed, rigid, white. 
Heads solitary, yellow, on long slender axillary _peduneles, F 
1 to 14 inches in diameter, outer involucre bracts large, oblong- 
obtuse, herbaceous, much longer than the disc-florets ; outer , 
florets ligulate,. central tubular ; achenes of the ray triquetrous, | 
those of the disc Nibpeinnad: pappus of toothed or — 
scales. 
Chemical shia ithe —In addition to a Sees amount of : 
resin, an alkaloidal principle was detected in E. alba, which 
we failed to obtain im a crystalline form. It afforded no 
special colour reactions. The sulphate was slightly soluble in 
ether. We provisionally call this alkaloid Eeliptine. — : 
