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STRYCHNOS TIEUTE (/am). 



FALSE UPAS TREE. — UPAS RADJA. — POKROE. — TSHETTIK. 



Loganiacea. — Large, climbing, shrub ; 120ft., branched above. 

 — Root woody, thick as a child's arm. — Flowers Jin., peduncu- 

 late, corymbose, axillary, in lax cymes, greenish white, stamens 

 five, jasmine-smelling^ June-July. — Fruit big as an apple, pink, 

 at first brownish-yellow; Sep.-Oct. — Leaves opp., solitary, 

 oblong, three nerved, acuminate, on short petioles ; hooks opp., 

 solitary. 



Toxic ;!5;/;z67>)/cj.— STRYCHNINE, BRUCINE. 



STRYCHNOS COLUBRINA, 



STRYCHNOS LIGUSTRINA (Java, Timor, 

 Coromandel). 



EAST INDIAN SNAKE-WOOD. 



Loganiacem. — Climbing tree; 15ft. (Lowlands, in the sunshine), 

 i2in. diameter. — Wood bitter, heavy, hard, mottled. — Flowers 

 greenish-yellow, small ; m terminal, solitary cymes ; calyx five 

 parted ; stamens 4-5. — Nov.-Dec. — Fruit, "prune reine," 'prune 

 Claude " ; usually only one matures at end of cyme ; pulp yel- 

 low, succulent, containing 2-8 scattered seeds. — Leaves opp. 

 glabrous, ovate or elliptic, shortly petioled, obtusely acuminate, 

 three nerved, no stipules ; tendrils lateral, becoming ligneous. 



Toxic principles.— ^I'^XCWAm^, BRUCINE. 



FAGR-(EA LANCEOLATA. 



POTALIA LANCEOLATA. 



NICANDRA LANCEOLATA (Java). 



LoganiacecB. — Tree ; (3,000ft. above sea) — Flowers n termin- 

 als, solitary or 3-5 ; calyx cut in four divisions, conical, 

 persistent ; stamens five ; strongly smelling ; white. — Fruit 

 glabrous, green spotted, with a sticky style at apex ; pericarp 

 transparent, sticky ; pulp soft, bitter nauseous, containing many 

 small ovoid seeds. 



Toxic principles -STRYCHNINE, BRUCINE. 



