LOGANIACEAE NUX VOMICA FAMILY 



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cymose clusters ; calyx of 4 to 5 parted sepals ; corolla gamopetalous, 4 to 5 

 parted; stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla or alternate with them; 

 fruit follicles or drupes. 



About 30 genera and 400 species, in warmer regions, several of them very 

 poisonous. Strychnos Nux-vomica, native to India and the islands of southern 

 Asia, is a small straggling tree, in its native country known as the Koochia 

 tree. The fruit resembles an orange, but with a hard rind and numerous flat 



Fig. 394. Strychnos (Strychnos Crevauxiana) . A curare plant of French 

 Guiana. (After Faguet.) 



