14 POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES 



big as an apple, pink, at first brownish-yellow; September- 

 October. — Leaves opposite, solitary, oblong, three-nerved, 

 acuminate, on short petioles; hooks opposite, solitary. 

 Toxic Principles.— STBYCHNTNE, BRUCINE. 



. . . this apple-hlossom^ s part 

 To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art. 



RossETTi: " Barren Spring.'^ 



STRYCHNOS COLUBRINA. 

 STRYCHNGS LIGUSTRINA {Java, Timor, Coromandel). 22. 



EAST INDIAN SNAKE-WOOD. 



Loganiacece. — Climbing tree; 15 ft. (lowlands, in the sun- 

 shine), 12 ins. diameter. — Wood bitter, heavy, hard, mottled. 

 — Flowers greenish-yellow, small ; in terminal, solitary cymes ; 

 calyx five parted; stamens 4-5. — November-December. — 

 Fruit, "prune reine," "prune Claude"; usually only one 

 matures at end of cyme; pulp yellow, succulent, containing 

 2-8 scattered seeds. — Leaves opposite, glabrous, ovate or 

 elliptic, shortly petioled, obtusely acuminate, three-nerved, 

 no stipules; tendrils lateral, becoming ligneous. 



Toxic Principles.— STRYCHNINE, BRUCINE. 



Too sweet in the rind, say the sages. 

 Too bitter the core. 



Swinburne: " Dolores.^* 



FAGR^EA LANCEOLATA. POTALIA LANCEOLATA. 

 NICANDRA LANCEOLATA {Java). 23. 



Loganiacece. — Tree ; (3,000 ft. above sea). — Flowers in 

 terminals, solitary or 3-5; calyx cut in 4 divisions, conical, 

 persistent; stamens 5 ; strongly smelling; white. — Fruit 

 glabrous, green spotted, with a sticky style at apex; pericarp 

 transparent, sticky; pulp soft, bitter, nauseous, containing 

 many small ovoid seeds. 



Toxic Principles.— STRYCHNINE, BRUCINE, AKAR- 

 GINE (?). 



Plants at whose names the verse feels loth. 

 Prickly and pulpous and blistering and blue. 

 Livid, and starred with a lurid dew. 



Shelley: " The Sensitive Plant. ^^ 



