8 POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES 

 CANNABIS SATIVA (Asia). 13. 



COMMON HEMP — INDIAN HEMP — BHANG — FIMBLE. 



Cannahince. — Stem 3-10 ft.; slightly woody. — Leaves 

 numerous, alternate, palmate, on long petioles, deeply serrate, 

 linear, lanceolate. — Flowers, stamens 5, stigmas protruding 

 beyond perianth. — Fruit one-seeded, supported by a bract. — 

 annual . — yellowish . 



Toxic Principles.— OIL OF HEMP, TRIGONELLINE, also 

 contained in Trigonella f oenum graecum. 



As a heart that it's anguish divine in 

 The green bud cloven . . . 



Swinburne; " Hespera." 



ANAMIRTA PANICULATA {India and Malay Peninsula). 

 MENISPERMUM COCCULUS. 14. 



COCCULUS INDICUS. 



Menispermacece. — A large woody twiner. — Bark cork-like. — 

 Leaves alternate ; on stalks thickened at both ends, and pre- 

 hensile. — Flowers small; dioecious; in pendulous, compound 

 racemes, 1 ft. long, springing from the old wood; pale green. — 

 Fruit, usually two; rounded, ovoid drupes; h in. black. — Seed 

 reniform on section. 



Toxic Principles.— FlCROTOXm, CURARINE. 



Hope grew round me like the twining vine 



And fruits and foliage not my own, seemed mine. 



Coleridge: " Dejection." 



Ill 



INEBRIANTS 



Symptoms.— Excitement of cerebral functions, and of the 

 circulation; loss of power of co-ordination, and of muscular 

 movements, with double vision; leading to profound sleep, and 

 deep coma. 



