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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
able ta start bafek np country again, and could hardly express his gratitude 
for the very great relief afforded."— Louis C. Joekel. 
“ I find from a communication of Baron Mueller, that for some time past 
he has had an idea that Myrioyyue might be used for medicinal purposes, and 
that he had actually submitted it to Dr. Springthorpe, an eminent physician 
in Melbourne, for purposes of experiment The Baron, however, was not 
aware of its efficiency in simple opthalmic inflammation, and he regarded the 
discovery as interesting. I mention this as a matter of justice to Dr. Joekel, 
who, I believe, is the first medical man in Australia who has proved the 
value of /Vyriogyue, in a case of ophthalmia. This weed, growi jg as it does 
on the banks of rivers and creeks, and in moist places, is common to all the 
Australian colonies and Tasmania, and it may be regarded as almost co- 
extensive with the disease which it is intended to relieve. In the document 
reflating to the Inter- Colonial Exhibition of 1886-7, it is noticed as remarkable 
for its sternutatory properties, and recommended for the manufacture of 
snuff.” 
The Rev. Mr. Hartmann says (Brongh-Smyth’s ‘ Aborigines of Victoria,’ 
ii., 178) that this plant is used as medicine by the aborigines of Lake Hind- 
marsh, but he does not say for what complaint 
Baron Mueller prepared a snuff from This plant many years ago 
(J. H. Maiden, P. L. S., &c., Ph. J. Sept. 1, 1888, p. 178 179). 
662. Artemesia scoparia, Waldst and Kit. h.f.b.i., 
hi. 323. 
Syn. : — A. elegans, Roxb., 599. 
Vern. : — Jhan, lasaj, biur, durumga, dona, marfia, pila jan, 
king khak durunga (Pb.). Ckuri saroj ; Danti (Bazar name). 
Habitat : — Upper Gangetic Plain and westwards to Scind 
and the Punjab, Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to Lahaul. 
A faintly scented, very slender-branched, glabrous or pubes- 
cent annual or perennial herb, l-2ft., (or 3-6ft. Duthie) high. 
Stems slender, grooved, usually tinged with purple; branchlet 
often almost capillary, glabrous below, hoary or villous. Radical 
leaves l-3in. long, petioled, broadly ovate, 1-3-pinnatisect, 
segments linear, distant, spreading; cauline leaves filiform 
or setaceous. Heads sessile, or on short capillary pedicels, 
minute, jj-^in., secund in slender, panicled racemes, involucre?- 
bracts glistening oblong, obtuse scarious, with narrow green 
disks. Outer female flowers fertile, inner hermaphrodite flowers 
sterile and with larger corollas. Achenes g^in. long (“ perhaps,” 
