26 POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES 



obversely lanceolate, obtuse or subacute. — ^Branches erect, 

 glabrous. — Stem contains a milky sap. 



Toxic Principles.— STROVUANTHm, INCINE. 



. . . the high wind sings 

 Fanning the hairs, who wave like feather' d wings. 



Shakespeabe: " Venus and Adonis." 



TANGHINEA VENENIFERA. 

 CERBERA TANGHIN {Madagascar). 47. 



ORDEAL-TREE — POISON TANGHIN. 



Apocynacece. — (The only species of the genus.) Small, 

 glabrous, evergreen tree; 20 ft. — Flowers in large, terminal 

 panicles, each supported by 2 bracts; corolla salver-shaped, 

 with pale pinkish lobes, and a green, funnel-shaped tube, 

 hairy within; stamens 5; calyx 5-fid; May. — Fruit purplish 

 tinged with green, consisting of a pyriform, ellipsoid, double 

 drupe, 2-3 ins. long, enclosing an acuminated, fillimentaceous, 

 woody nut. — Leaves alternate, smooth, lanceolate, thick; 

 6 ins. ; clustered towards points of branches, directed upwards. 

 — Stem contains a milky sap. 



Toxic Principles.— UMlGUmiN, CERBERIN. 



The blood-like blossom, the dull red fruit : 

 Though the heart yet sickens, the lips yet sv)eet. 

 With sullen savour of poisonous pain. 



Swinburne: " The Triumph of Time.^' 



ANTIARIS TOXICARIA (Java, Borneo, Sumatra, 

 Philippines). 48. 



UPAS-TREE — ANTSJAR — POHON UPAS — HYPO — MALAY ARROW 



POISON. 



Urticacece. — Tree; 100 ft. before the branches; (lowlands 

 and dark valleys). — Wood, light, white, hard, milk-bearing ; 

 bark deeply scarred where leaves have fallen. — Flowers poly- 

 gamous, male in dense heads, receptacle fungus-like, downy, 

 turbinate, pedicellate; female flowers small, sessile, without 

 bracts; anthers 4; no pistils, ovary adheres to involucre. 



