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TEPHROSIA CANDIDA 



It is advisable to record that a number of these plants are 

 poisonous. For instance, in Tahiti is found Tephrosia 

 piscatorla, which, though eaten greedily by cattle, is 

 poisonous to poultry. Lanessan informs us that the 

 branches and leaves of this species, when thrown into 

 streams, kill the lish, acting on them in the same way as 

 digitaline, but without rendering them inedible. 



In Senegal there occurs Teplirosia linearis: in Guiana 

 Tephrosia piscaturia is known as Toxicaria, and in Senegal 

 as Vogelii. The properties of these three are the same. 



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Fig. 32. — Branch of the Wild Indigo Plant of Anjouan (Comoros). 



M. Advisse Desruisseaux communicates to us that in 

 Anjouan a wild indigo plant is found which lives for several 

 years. The stem attains a diameter of 3 to 4 cm. and turns 

 a reddish brown. In dry situations this plant onlv lives for 

 one year. It forms a thick blanket, sprouting at the com- 

 mencement of the rains and disappearing some time after the 

 dry season. 



