EUPHOHBIAOEM. 167 



the Antilles and on the continent of Sonth America, a tree which 

 has been the subject of a large number of fables and whose fatal 

 effects are only felt when wo bring the acrid juice, contained in the 

 organs of vegetation, in contact with the skin or digestive organs. 

 Men and certain animals are still oftener poisoned by the sarcocarp 

 of its fruit, very analogous, it is said, in aspect, to a small red apple, 

 and containing, even in a state of maturity, a certain quantity of this 

 latex.' Exccecaria Agallocha'- (fig. 204-206), common on the sea- 

 shore of the tropical countries of the old world, owes to the same 

 properties its name of " Blinding tree." Ophthahnohlapton macrophyl- 

 lum^"^ from the neighbourhood of Eio Janeiro, has the same proper- 

 ties. The same might be said of many species of Excoecaria which 

 have been designated by the name of Sapium, as E. Laurocerams *, 

 and E. higlandulosa^^ from tropical America, E. mauritiana^'' and in 

 Asia E. indica^ haccata,^ and oppositifolia!-^ The juice of some species 

 of Hunt, is also very dangerous ; i" also that of Hycenanche (//obosa,^^ 

 from the Cape, equally venemous in the fruit and seeds, and em- 

 ployed to poison ferocious animals. Many other EupJioi'hiacece with 

 caustic juice are employed in America to kill game. Others are 

 mentioned as intoxicating fish when thrown into watercoui'ses. The 



iii. 200.— H. Bn. Eiiphorb. t. 6, fig. 12-20; in dulosmn M. Arg. in Litmcea, xxxii. 116.— .S. 



Diet. Encijcl. Sc. Med. scr. ii. iv. 481. — M. Aug. prunifoUnni Kl. — Stillinffia higlaiidiilosa H. Bjf. 



Frodr. 1200. — Mancaiiilla Plum. Ocn. 49, t. 30. inAdaiisonia, v. 320. 



— Maiicindln venenata Tuss. Fl. Ant. iii. 21, ^ Stilliiigia mauritiana "B.. Bx. in Adaiisonia, 



t. 5. (Noytr vine'neii.r, Arbre-poison, B. dc mart, ii. 27. — Snpinm lineatum Lamk. Diet. ii. 734, n. 



Figuier v^n^neux.) 2. — S. Uevigntiim Lamk.— 5. obtusifoUum La.mk. 



' The same jiroperties are attributed to M. {Gluttier rctye, G. lisse.) 



spinom L. {Sj'ec. ed. 3, 1432 ; — Descoukt. Fl. ^ M. Arg. in Limiiea, xxxii, 123. — Sapium iti- 



Ant. loe. eit.; — Guib. op. cit. ii. 344, fig. 44G ; — diciint W. Spec. iv. 372. — Rosenth. up. cit. 822. 



Maiiehiel/ii afjuifolii foliis Plum. Gen. 50 ; Ic. t. — 5. bingyriciim RoxB. MSS. — S. Hiirmals Ham. 



71, fig. 1 ; — iSapiiim iUcifoVmm W. Spec. iv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 229. — Trugia eUiptiea 



573), a rare plant, incompletely known, and Hochst. MSS. (ox M. Aho. Prodr. 1216). — 



may be only a form oi H. mancinclla. Sclerocroton ellipliens Hocusr. in Flora (1845), 



2L. Spec. 1451.— M. Aro. Frodr. 1220, n. 44. 85.— H. Bi^.Fup/inrbiac. t. 8, fig. 17 (Hoorooa of 



— H. Bn. in Adansonia, vi. 324. — E. Camcttia Bengal). 



W. Spec. iv. 864.— £. oveilis Endl. Prodr. Fl. ^ M. Arg. Frodr. 121, n. I'A.—Sapium bac- 



Norfolk, 83. — Arbor excoecans Rumph. Herb. catnm Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 694. — S. hcxandrum 



Ainboin, ii. 237, t. 79, 80. — Commia coc/iinchinen- Wall. Cat. n. 7965. — S. Dacdeee Wail. loc. cit. 



sis laovv.. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), 006. — Stil. — *'. iJo;;«7i/b&OT Wight, Jfo». 1. 1950. — Stillin- 



lingia Agallocha H. Bn. Eiiphorb. 618, t. 7, fig. gia paniculata MiQ. 



31-34. {Agalhehe, false Calambuc, fuUe Calam- » Jack, in Cale. Journ. of Nat. Hist. iv. 386. — 



bouc wood, false black Santal.) JI. Arg. Prodr. 1219, n. 40. 



:' Allem. in Guaiiab. (1844).— II. Bn. Eu- i" Soe p. 103, note 6. 



phorb. 5i7 ; in Adansonia V.3H.— 0. brasiliense l' Lamb, et Vahl, Descr, Cinch, el Myeen. 



Wali'. Ann. iii. 362; 658 {Santa-Lucia). Lend. (1797), 52, t. 10.— H. Bn. Euphorb. t. 23, 



* 51. Arg. Prodr. 1202. — Sapium Lauro- fig. 29-39. — Jatnpha glubosa Omuts. Fruct. u. 

 cerasHsDrnT. Cat. Llort. Par. gA..Z, iii, ill.— 122, t. 109, fig. 2.— Toxicodendron capeim 

 Stillingia Laurocerasm H. Bn. Euphorb. 613, t. Thunb. in Act. ffolm. (1796), 188, t, 7. — W. 

 6, fi . 1-9. Spec. iv. 821. 



* M. Aro. Prodr. 1204, n. 6.- Sapiwn biglan- 



