BUPHORDIATS. 79 SPURGEWORTS. 
A. incisa Linneus.—(The Breap-rruit TREE.) , 
ayes pinnatifid, sinuated, seabrous, downy on the under side; male 
 eatkins nodding. oe 
Habitat. Islands of the Pacific, and Indian : | 
Archipelago. | 
. The large fruit nutritious when sliced Af: 
and dried; filled with a tenacious white 
milk before becoming ripe. 
. 
Antiaris. Leschenault, 
Males on a mushroom-like receptacle, 
with 3 or 4 sepals, and as many 
sessile anthers. emales solitary, 
becoming fleshy drupes. 
1. A. tovicaria Leschenault.—(The Upas 
Tree.) Fig. 119. 
Leaves oval-oblong, acute, hairy on both 
sides, especially on the main veins, 
slightly serrated ; male receptacles 
stalked. 
Habitat. East Indies, 
Quanity. Juice an acrid poison ; emetic ; causes 
convulsions. 
Uses. Poisons weapons ; its fibre woven into 
coarse linen, 
N.B—The fables current concerning the |; 
action of the plant are a mixture of truth ]- 
connected with distinct natural pheno- 
mena in Java, and the real properties 
of the plant. That its emanations are 
Occasionally noxious is an undoubted 
fact, though excessively exaggerated. 
THE EUPHORBIAL ALLIANCE 
(V.K., p. 272.) 
Natural Order, Spurgemarts ; Euphor- 
biacee (V.K., p. 274.) 
Frevailing Quality. Acrid; emetic. 
Evrenorsia. Linneus. 
Monecious, Flowers naked ; males monandrous, surrounding a 3-coccous eC 
_ Stalked female ; the whole placed within a cup-shaped invaluere.. 
_ Fig. 119.—Leaf of Antiaris toxicaria, == 
