28 POISONOUS PLANTS. 



STROPHANTHUS KOMBE (Western Africa). 



WHITE-WOOLY KOMBE BEAN. — GABOON ARROW POISON. 



ApocvnacecB. — A woody climber. 6ft. — Petals united ; ovary 

 2 style. Corolla-lobes 4in. long, peduncles terminal, 2-4 flow- 

 ered, pmk. — June. — Stamens five or more upon the corolla. — 

 Seeds oval ; arrow-like, with comose appendices ; 100-200 

 contained in long follicles. — Leaves approximate, obversely 

 lanceolate, obtuse or subacute. — Branches erect, glabrous. — 

 Stem contains a milky sap. 



Toxic ^wzf/^/<?j.— STROPHANTHIN, INCINE. 



TANGHINEA VENENIFERA; 

 CERBERA TANGHIN {Madagascar). 



ORDEAL-TREE.— POISON TANGHIN. 



A ^ocyitacecB. — (The only species of the genus.) Small, 

 glabrous, milk-bearing, evergreen tree ; 20ft. — Flowers in 

 large, terminal panicles, each supported by 2 bracts ; corolla 

 salver-shaped, with pale pinkish lobes, and a green-funnel- 

 shaped tube, hairy within ; stamens 5 ; calyx 5-fid ; May. — 

 Fruit purplish tinged with green, consisting of a pyriform, 

 ellipsoid, double drupe, 2-3in. long, enclosing an acuminated, 

 fillimentaceous, woody nut. — Leaves alt., smooth, lanceolate, 

 thick, 6in. ; clustered towards points of branches, directed 

 upwards. — Stem contains a milky sap. 



Toxtc principles.-— 1kViQ:B.mm, PRUSSIC ACID (7). 



ANTIARIS TOXICARIA (Java, Borneo, Sumatra, 

 Pliilippines). 



UPAS-TREE. — ANTSJAR. — POHON UPAS. — HYPO. — MALAY 

 ARROW POISON. 



Urticacem. — Tree ; looft. before the branches ; (lowlands 

 and dark valleys). — Wood, light, white, hard, mills-bearing ; 

 bark deeply scarred where leaves have fallen. — Flowers poly- 

 gamous, male in dense heads, receptacle fungus-like, downy, 

 turbinate, pedicellate ; female flowers small, sessile, without 

 bracts, anthers 4, no pistils, ovary adheres to involucre, 

 monoecious ; June-Sept. Green.— Fruit a drupe, fleshy, one- 

 seeded. — Le.aves alt., with deciduous stipules, simple, oblong, 

 unequally cordate, very entire, often lobed, smaller ones hairy. 



Toxic principle.~KWnKV,V&^. 



