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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
671. Emilia sonchifolia, 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, glabrons puberulons or 
scabrid. Stems erect, or diffuse and often rooting at the nodes, more or less 
branched. Leaves 1^-4 in, long; lower petioled. lyrate-pinnatifld or obovate, 
entire or sinuate ; upper smaller, araplexicaul, with acute or obtuse auricles. 
Heads I in. long, solitary or laxly corymbose ; peduncles very slender, nodding 
when young. Invol-bracts nearly equalling the flowers, linear-oblong, acute, 
narrowly marginod, Corollas piukish-violet or white. Style-arms J-cylindrio, 
the tip conic. Acbenes | in. long, with 5 scabrid ribs. (Dutbie). 
Uses : — In Malabar, a decoction ot the plant is said to be a 
.febrifuge. Mixed with sugar given in bowel complaints 
(Rhetede). 
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 hairs very slender, 
terete. 
Uses: — The plant was brought forward in 1860, Jby 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 
