SUBSTANCES REPUTED MEDICINAL. Igl 
78. Indigofera enneaphylla, Zinn. ; N.O., Leguminosz, B Fl. ii., 
196. 
An infusion of the whole plant is diuretic, and as such is given 
in fevers and coughs in India. (Ainslie.) It is not endemic in 
Australia. 
South Australia, New South Wales and Northern Australia. 
79. Ionidium suffruticosum, G7ug., (Syn. Pigea Banksiana, DC. ; 
Fiybanthus enneaspermus, F.v.M.); N.O., Violacee B.FI. i., 
101; H. enneaspermus in Muell. Cens., p. 6; see also Muell. 
Fragm., x. 81, where no less than eighteen synonyms of this 
species are given. 
Mr. F. M. Bailey (Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., 1883, p. 3) 
points out that the roots of this species are used in India in diseases 
of the urinary organs, and the leaves as an external application. 
Other species are used medicinally in various parts of the world, 
and there is no doubt that the Australian species possess medicinal 
properties. This particular species is widely spread over tropical 
Asia and Africa. 
North and South Australia, New South Wales and Queens- 
land. 
8>. Ipomeca Pes-capre, Roth., (Syn. I. maritima, R.Br.; J. dzloba, 
Forsk.; Convolvulus pes-caprae, Linn.; C.marttimus, Dest. ; 
C. bilobatus, Roxb.; C. brastliensts, Linn.) ; N.O., Convolvu- 
lacez, B.FI. iv., 419. 
The boiled leaves are used externally as an anodyne in cases 
of colic, and in decoction in rheumatism ; the juice is given as a 
diuretic in dropsy, and at the same time the bruised leaves are 
applied to the dropsical part. (Dymock, Materta Medica of 
Western India.) 
Western Australia, New South Wales and Northern Australia. 
81 Justicia procumbens, Zzu., (Syn. 7. juncea, R.Br.; F. 
media, R.Br.; $. adscendens, R.Br.; Rostellaria (Rostel- 
lularia) procumbens, Nees; R. media, Nees; KR. juncea, 
Nees; R. pogonanthera, F.v.M.); N.O., Acanthacex, B.F1., 
iv, 549 
