706 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



671. Emilia sonchi folia, DC. Var. Sonchifolia 

 proper, h.f.b.i., hi. 336; Roxb. 597. 



Vern. : — Sadi-modi (B.) ; Muel-schevi (Mai.) ; Sadhi-mandi 

 (Bomb.). 



Habitat : — Common throughout India. 



A slender somewhat glaucous herb, 10-18 in. high, glabrous puberulous or 

 scabrid. Stems erect, or diffuse and often rooting afc the nodes, more or less 

 branched. Leaves li-4 in. long ; lower petioled, lyrate-pinnatifid or obovate, 

 entire or sinuate ; upper smaller, amplexicaul, with acute or obtuse auricles. 

 Heads | in. long, solitary or laxly corymbose ; peduncles very slender, nodding 

 when young. Invol-bracts nearly equalling the flowers, linear-oblong, acute, 

 narrowly margined. Corollas pinkish-violet or white. Style-arms |-cylindric, 

 the tip conic. Achenes § in. long, with 5 scabrid ribs. (Duthie). 



Uses : — In Malabar, a decoction of the plant is said to be a 

 febrifuge. Mixed with sugar given in bowel complaints 

 (Rheede). 



In Travancore, pure juice of the leaves is poured drop by 

 drop into the eyes in night-blindness. The natives consider the 

 juice as cooling as rose-water and prescribe it in eye inflamma- 

 tions (Drury). 



672. Notonia grandiflora, DC. h.f.b.i., hi. 337. 



Vern. : — Wander-roti (Mar.) ; Gaidar (Bomb.) 



Habitat : —Hilly districts of the Western Peninsula, from 

 the Concan southwards. 



A small shrub, 2-3ft. high, very fleshy. Branches very stout. 

 Leaves 3-5 by l-3in., subsessile or petioled, obovate, or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, quite entire. Flowering peduncles 6-12in. 

 long, stout, erect, naked. Corymb of few or many heads, f-lin. 

 long. Achenes iin. long, glabrous. Pappus bairs very slender, 

 terete. 



Uses:— The plant was brought forward in 1860, by Dr. A. 

 Gibson, as a preventive of hydrophobia. The mode of admi- 

 nistration is as follows : — About 4 ounces of the freshly-gathered 

 6tems, infused in a pint of cold water for a night, yield in 

 the morning, when subjected to pressure, a quantity of viscid 



