SUBSTANCES REPUTED MEDICINAL. 195 
The Cochin-Chinese place this amongst their medicinal plants 
believing the fruit to be deobstruent and emmenagogue. In 
Bombay the leaves are used as a healing application to wounds 
and ulcers, and are administered internally as a tonic and febri- 
fuge. (Dymock.) 
, 
Queensland and Northern Australia. 
92. Mucuna sisantea, DC., (Syn. Carpopogon giganteum, Roxb.); 
.N.O., Leguminose, B.FI. ii., 254. 
Used in India in rheumatic complaints. The bark for this 
purpose is pulverised, mixed with dry ginger, and rubbed over the 
parts afflicted. (Rheede.) 
New South Wales to Northern Australia. 
93- Myriosyne minuta, Zess., (Syn. AL Cunninghamil, DC.; 
Centipeda orbicularis, Lour.; C. Cunninghami, F.v.M.; 
Spheromorphea centipeda, DC.; S. Russelliana, DC. ; 
Cotula minuta, Forst.; C. cuneifolia, Willd.; Grangea 
cunetfolia, Poir.; G. minufa, Poir; G. decumbens, Desf. ; 
Ariemista minima, Thunb.); N.O, Composite, B.FI. iii., 
553; Centipeda orbicularis and C. Cunninghamt, as distinct 
species, in Muell. Cens., p. 84 See also Muell. Fragm. viii., 
143, 
“ Gukwonderuk” of the aboriginals at Lake Hindmarsh Station, 
Victoria. ‘*‘ Sneezeweed” of Southern New South Wales. 
The following letter from the Rev. Dr. Woolls (then of Rich- 
mond), to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, appeared in 
that journal on Christmas Day, 1886. I give it in full, as if this 
plant only partially realizes the expectations formed of it, it will be 
a valuable addition to our indigenous vegetable materia medica. 
Following is Dr. Wooll’s letter :—‘‘Some weeks since, the 
Rev. S. G. Fielding, of Wellington, called my attention to a weed 
(known to botanists as Myriogne minuta, of the composite order,) 
