EUl'HOHBlACE^. 



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

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

 effects are only felt when we 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 sareocarp 

 of its fi-uit, 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.' Excivcaria Agallocha- (fig. 204-206), common on the sea- 

 sho]"e of the tropical countries of the old world, owes to the same 

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

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

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

 have been designated by the name of Sajmwi, as U. Laurocerasus *, 

 and JE. biglandulosa,^ from tropical America, E. mauritlanu^ and in 

 Asia E. indica^ haccata^^ and oppositifolia.'^ The juice of some species 

 of Hura is also very dangerous ; ^^ also that of Hyœnanche glohosa,'^^ 

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

 ployed to poison ferocious animals. Many other Euphorliaeeœ with 

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

 mentioned as intosicatino; fish when thi'own into watercoui'ses. The 



iii. 200.— H. Bn. Euphorb. t. 6, fig. 12-20 ; in 

 Diet. Encijd. Sc. Méd. sér. ii. iv. 481. — M. Akg. 

 Prodr. 1200.— Mancaiiilla Plum. 6eii. 49, t. 30. 

 — Maiieiiiella venenata Tuss. Fl. Ant. iii. 21, 

 t. 5. {Noijer véne'neii.r, Arbre-poison, B. de mort, 

 Figuier vé/iêieii.v.) 



' The same properties are attributed to S. 

 spinosa L. {Spec. ed. 3, 1432 ; — Descourt. Fl. 

 Ant. loc, cit. ; — Guib. op. cit. ii. 344, fig. 446 ; — 

 Maiiclnella aquifoUi foliis Plum. Gen. 50 ; le. t. 

 71, fig. 1 ; — Sapium ilicifoHum W. Spec. iv. 

 573), a rare plant, incompletely known, and 

 may be only a form of S. maneiiiella. 



-'L. Spec. 1451.— JI. Ajua.Prodr. 1220, n. 44. 

 — H. Bn. in Adansonia, tî. 324. — E. Camettia 

 W. Spec. iv. 864.— .E. ovalis Endl. Prodr. Fl. 

 Norfolk. 83. — Arbor exceecans Rumph. Serb. 

 Amboiii, ii. 237, t. 79, SO.~Coinmia cochinchiiieii- 

 sis LouK. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), 600.— S^i^ 

 lingia Agallocha H. Bn. Etiphorb. 518, t. 7, fig. 

 31-34. [Agalloehe, false Calambac, false Calam- 

 botw wood, false black Santal.) 



3ALLEM. in Giianab. (1844).— H. Bn. Eu- 

 phorb. 547 ; in Adansonia v. 344. — 0. brasiliense 

 Walp. Ann. iii. 362; 658 {Santa-Lucia). 



* M. Arq. Prodr. 1202. — Sapium Lauro- 

 cerasm Desf. Cat. Sort. Far. ed. 3, 342, 411.— 

 Stillingia Lauroccrasns H. En. Euphorb. 513, t. 

 6, fi . 1-9. 



' M. Arg. Prodr. 1204, n. 6.- Sapium blglan- 



dulusum M. Aro. in Limuta, xxxii. 116. — <S'. 

 prunifolium Kl. — Stillingia biglandulosa H. Bn 

 in Adansonia, v. 320. 



' Stillingia mauritiana H. Bn. in Adansonia, 

 ii. 27. — Sapium lineatum Lamk. Diet. ii. 734, n. 

 2. — S. tavigatum Lamk. — iS. obtiisifolium JjAmk, 

 {Gluttier rayé, 6. lisse.) 



7 M. Arg. in Linncea, xxxii. 123.- — Sapium in- 

 dicum'W. Spec.iY. 572. — Eosenth. op. cit. 822. 

 — S. bingijricum Roxb. MSS. — S. Surmais Ham. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soe. xvii. 229. — Tragia elliptica 

 HocHST. MSS. (ex M. Arg. Prodr. 1216).— 

 Sclerocroton ellipticus Hochst. in Flora (1845), 

 85.— H. Bn. Euphorbiac. t. 8, fig. 17 {Soorooa of 

 Bengal) . 



* M. Arg. Prodr. 121, n. 19. — Sapium bac- 

 catum Roxb. Fl. Lnd. iii. 694. — /S. hexandrum 

 Wall. Cat. n. 7965. — 8. Dacdcce Waxl. loc. cit. 

 — S. populifolium Wight, Leon. 1. 1950. — Stillin- 

 gia patdculata MiQ. 



9 Jack, in Calc. Journ. of Nat. Sist. iv. 386.— 

 M. Aro. Prodr. 1219, n. 40. 



1» See p. 163, note 6. 



1' Lamb, et Vahl, Peser. Cinch, et Myœn. 

 Lend. (1797), 52, t. 10.— H. Bn. Euphorb. t. 23, 

 fig. 29-39. — Jatrnpha globosa GiERTN. Frtict. ii. 

 122, t. 109, fig. 3, — Toxicodendron capense 

 Thunb. in Act. Holm. (1796), 188, t, 7.— W. 

 Spec. iv. 821. 



