POISONS ACTING ON THE HEART 19 



black ; tasteless and odourless. — ^perennial. — mauve with 

 crimson centres. 



Toxic Principles.— ESERmE, CALABARINE, ERYTHRO- 

 PHLCEINE, MUAWINE, also contained in ErythrophlcBum 

 Guineense. 



. . . flowers 

 Fierce at the heart with fire that half comes through. 

 But all the flower-like white stained round with blue. 



Swinburne: '^ Anactoria.^^ 



PILOCARPUS PENNATIFOLIUS {Brazil). 31. 



JABORANDI. 



Rutacece. — Shrub ; 4-6 ft. ; Branches erect. — Leaves alter- 

 nate; without stipules; IJ ft.; leaflets opposite; in 2-5 pairs 

 and 1 terminal. — Flowers small; on short pedicels; arranged 

 round an erect raceme, 18 ins. long, which terminates a branch - 

 let. — Fruit composed of 5 carpels, spreading round a hard axis. 

 —Seed solitary; black. — Spring and early summer; violet. 



Toxic Principle.— TILOCAKPJNE. 



. . . all was well ; 

 Old circumstance resumed its former show 

 And on my head the dews of comfort fell 

 As ere my woe. 



Thomas Habdy: "^4 Wasted Illness. 



RUTA GRAVEOLENS {Cultivated in Britain). 32. 



COMMON RUE — COUNTRYMAN'S TREACLE — AVE GRACE — HERB 

 OF GRACE — HERB OF REPENTANCE. 



J?wtocecB.— Herbaceous shrub; 2 J ft.— Leaves alternate; 

 persistent; compound; lower tripinnate; upper pennate; 

 leaflets linear-oval.— Inflorescence a terminal, corymbrose, 

 irregularly trichotomous cyme. Flowers on long stalks; 

 petals alternating with, and exceeding sepals.— Fruit hard; 

 rough; roundish; 5-lobed.— Seeds ovoid-angular; testa black; 

 rough. — perennial. — greenish-yellow. 



Toxic Principles.— OIL OF RUE, EUODIC ACID. 



. . . the old rue-bush 

 Shudders as he pulls. 



Cowpeb: " The Salad.'" 



