320 COMPOSITE. 
requires watching, as like senna it causes griping and like aloes 
tenesmus. Dr. Landry suggests its combination with manna, 
anise and carbonate of magnesia; or with stimulants and 
aromatics, (Pharm. Journ., Sept 1888.) This weed is common 
in many parts of India in fields and cultivated places. 
Some plants of minor importance used medicinally and 
belonging to this Order are :— 
Echinops echinatus, DC., the Utéti of Sanskrit 
writers and the Utkatara of the bazars, It is a thistle-like . 
plant 1 to 2 feet high, with pinnatifid spinous leaves, the 
under surface of which is cottony. The flower heads are 
about 1 inch in diameter and armed with many stout spines. 
The root is tapering and of a whitish brown colour. The 
drug is considered to be tonic and diuretic. It is bitter and 
appears to usto have much the same properties as the Carduus 
benedictus of Europe. 
Dicoma tomentosa, Oass., Wight Ic., t.1140. Vern.— 
Navananji-cha-pala (Belgaum). hn erect much-branched 
annual, 10 to 18 inches high, clothed with white cottony wool ; 
leaves sessile linear or. linear-obovate, obtuse or acute, quite 
entire, cottony, 1 to 3 inches long; heads sub-axillary, in- 
volucre bracts, 4 to 3 in., subulate, 2 ain: straight, glab- 
rous, shining ; achenes broad and short, $ in. long, turbinate, 
Getisely silky ; pappus shining, elastic, bensh-Riles The herb 
y bitter, and is used in the neighbourhood of Belgaum 
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as a Febrifuge, especially in the febrile attacks to which women ~ : 
are subject after childbirth. Dr. Peters, of the Bombay 
Medical Service, first brought to notice the use of this plant 
medicinally by the natives. 
Notonia grandiflora, DC., Deless. Ic. Sel. iv., t. 61; 
Wight Ic. t. 484. Syn.—Cacalia Kleinia; Herb. Madras. The 
Wander-rott of the Mahrattas, was named by DeCandolle 
after Mr. Benjamin Noton of Bombay, who first met with it 
on the Nilgiriss it is also found upon high rocky precipices- 
in the Deccan. In 1860, Dr. A. Gibson brought forward | this: 
plant asa preventive of oe The mode of admin= _ 
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