34 POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES 



auricles at base; no tendrils; lobed and undulated. — Glaucous 

 everywhere. — Flowers unisexual; stalked; 1 or 2 ins.; axillary 

 peduncle. — Fruit oblong-ovoid; J-3 ins.; pendent; capped by 

 withered flower. — Pericarp thick; white inside; filled with 

 juice, in which lie numerous pale-brown seeds; when ripe 

 suddenly separating from stalk, and violently expelling con- 

 tents through orifice. — perennial; pale yellow, centres green. 

 Toxic Principle.— "ElATEBm, 



. . . ay, his word 

 Was " run the cucumber into a gourd. 

 Drive Trent into Apulia.'' 



Bkowning: " SordelloJ' 



ERYTHROPLEUM GUINEENSE {Sierra Leone). 6L 



CASCA BARK — SASSY BARK — ORDEAL BARK. 



Leguminosece. — Tall tree ; common in water- valleys. — Leaves 

 alternate; pinnate. — Flowers numerous; small; growing on 

 peduncles. 



Toxic Principle.— ACRID JUICE. 



/ met the grey mist. Death, . . . 



He reached me flowers as from a withered hough. 



Death / what hitter nosegays givest thou ? 



Meredith: " Past Meridian.'" 



GARCINIA CAMBOGIA {Siam and Cochin China). 62. 



GAMBOGE TREE. 



Guttiferce. — Tree; 25-50 ft. — Branches many; spreading. — 

 Leaves opposite; on short petioles without stij^ules; oval; 

 midrib prominent beneath. — Flowers dioecious; coming from 

 leaf -axils of previous years; pale yellow. — Fruit the size of a 

 crab -apple; spherical; depressed at top; surrounded at base 

 by 5 persistent sepals; 4-celled; fleshy; yellow-green. — Seeds 

 1 to each cell. 



Toxic Principle.— CAMBOGJN, 



That in the mortar ? — Fou call it a gum ? 



Ah ! the hrave tree whence such bright oozings come. 



Browning: " The Laboratory,''^ 



