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doses. St. Ignatius’ bean (the fruit of Strychnos Ignatia), 
§. colubrina, and the Upas tieute, (with which the Ja- 
vanese poison their arrows), owe their poisonous properties 
_ to the presence of Strychnia. The Upas tieute is said to be 
a species of Strychnos. The seeds of the Tanghin tree 
(Cerbera Tanghin) and C. Manghas, which grow, the first in 
Madagascar, the second in the East Indies, are powerful 
poisons. Camerarea latifolia (Bastard Manchineel) yields 
4 juice which is said to be highly poisonous. 
2. PERICOROLLE. 
Monopetalous dicotyledonous plants, with perigynous stamens. 
65. STyRAcEz. . 66. ErRicInEz. 
67. CaAMPANULACE. 
ORDER LXV. 
STYRACEAZ. 
‘Diospyree, Rich. 
 Cuaracters, — Trees or shrubs with simple alternate 
leaves without stipules, and axillary flowers and scaly 
bracteas ; calyx monosepalous, sometimes entirely free (hy- 
Pogynous), sometimes united by its base or altogether with 
the ovary, of 4 or 5 unequal divisions, persistent ; corolla 
_ imbricate in estivation, divided; stamens inserted on the 
Corolla, with the filaments sometimes irregularly united by 
base ; anthers innate ; ovary sometimes superior, some- 
times inferior or semi-inferior, generally 4-celled (3 or 
ch cell having 2 or 4 ovules, of which half are erect, the 
—: style simple, generally with a 4-lobed 
pericarp dry or fleshy, ea me in the — some. 
: with 3 oF 3 or a L-seeded peed 30 
