COMPOSITE, oye 
4 Setippu (Tam. ), Chemanti (Tel.), Jevanti-puva oe ), Shyavan- 
: Beabare (Can.), Shevanti-cha-phula (Mar.). | 
-Centipeda orbicularis, Lour., Wight Ic. 1610, a native 
of the plains of India and Ceylon, is used as a mechanical 
_ Sternutatory by the natives; it is administered to relieve 
the sneezewort of the English. In Sanskrit it is called | 
Chikkana or Chhikika, which is equivalent to sneezewort, and 
the vernacular names have a similar meaning. According to 
Roxburgh this plant appears during the latter part of the cold 
Season, on cultivated land, The whole plant does not cover a 
Space more than about 6 to 8 inches in diameter. The root 
is simple, the stems several, branchy, pressing on the earth; 
all are somewhat woolly; leaves numerous, sessile, wedge- 
shaped, deeply dentate, villous; flowers axillary or in the 
divisions of the branches, solitary, sessile, sub-globular, 
hermaphrodite, florets from 10 to 12 in the centre with the 
border 4-toothed, coloured and expanding; the female ones ° 
very numerous in the circumference, most minute, with the 
border seemingly 3-toothed, — the toothlets incurved, 
_- Receptacle naked. 
ANACYCLUS PYRETHRUM, DC. 
Fig.— Woodville, t. 20; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 999; 
f fieut. and Trim, t. 151. Spanish Pellitory (Hng.), Salivaire 
- d@’Espagne (Fri ye2 = 3: 
Hab.—North Africa. The root. 
: Vernacular.—Akarkara, Akalkara ( ind, Bea Mayr. ); Akki- <s 
_ rakaram (Tam.), Akala-karra(Tel.), Axkikaruka es ), Alcala : 
kari (Can.), Akarkaro (Guz2,). S 
: . History, Uses, &c.—Pellitory root, in Sanskrit Akaré- 
karabha, is only mentioned by the later writers, as 
Sarangadhara and the author of the Bhavaprakasa, 
doubtless derived Shes knowledge 
Mahometans, who in their 
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