EtJPHOEBIAOE^. 167 



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 digestiye 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.^ ExGcecaria 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." Ophthalmoblapton 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. Laurocerasus *, 

 and E. liglanduhsa^ from tropical America, E. mauritiana,^ and in 

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

 of Hura is also very dangerous ; ^^ also that of Hycenanche globosa^^ 

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

 ployed to poison ferocious animals. Many other EuphorUacece with 

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

 mentioned as intoxicating fish when thrown into watercourses. The 



iii. 200. — H. 'Bs. Eriphorb. t. 6, fig. 12-20; in dulostm, M. Aug. in Linnaa, xxxii. 116. — 8. 



Diet. Encycl. So. Med. ser. ii. iv. 481. — M. Arg. prunifoliwm Ki. — StiUingia biglcmdulosa H. Bn. 



Frodr. 1200. — Mancanilla Pltjm. Qen. 49, t. 30. in Adcmsonia, v. 320. 



■^Maneinella venenata Tubs. Fl. Ant. iii. 21, ^ StiUingia mauritiana H. Bn. in Adansonia, 



t. 5. {Noyer v^n^neux, Arbre-poison, B. de mart, ii. 27. — Sapiian limeatwm Lamk. Diet. ii. 734, n. 



Figuier v£n£neax.) 2. — 8. lisvigatum Lamk.— iS. obtmifolium Lamk. 



' Tlie same properties are attributed to S. (Gluttier rayi, G. lisse.) 



spinosa L. {Spee. ed. 3, 1432 ; — Descoukt. Fl. 1 M. Aeg. in Linneea, xxxii. 123. — 8apium in- 



Ant. he. eit. ; — GruiE. op. cit. ii. 344, fig. 446 ; — dic<tm W. 8pec. iv. 672. — Eosbnth. op. cit. 822. 



Maneinella aqttifolii foliis Plum. Gen. 50 ; le. t. — S. bingyricum Eoxb. MSS. — 8. JETurmais Ham. 



71, fig. 1 ; — 8cipivm iUeifoliitm W. Spec. iv. in Trans. Xinn. Soc. xvii. 229. — Tragia eUiptiea 



573), a rare plant, incompletely known, and Hoohst. MSS. (ex M. Aeg. Prodr. 1216). — 



may te only a form oi S. maneinella. Selerocroton elliptieus IB^ocbst. in Flora (1845), 



2 L. Spec. 1461.— M. Aeg. Frodr. 1220, n. 44. 85.— H. Bn. Buphorbiac. t. 8, fig. 17 (Soorooa of 

 — ^H. Bn. in Adansonia, vi. 324. — F. Camettia Bengal). 



W. Spec. iv. 864. — F. ovalis Endl. Prodr. Fl. * M. Akq. Prodr. 121, n. 19. — Sapium bac- 



Norfolk, 83. — Arbor exccecans Eumph. Herb. cation Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 694. — S. hexoMdrvm 



Amioin, ii. 237, t. 79, 80. — Gommia eochinehinen- Wall. Cat. n. 7965. — S. Dacdece Wall. loe. cit. 



sis LouK. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), 606. — Stil- — 8. populifoHum Wight, Icon. 1. 1960. — Stillin- 



lingia Agallocha H. Bn. Fttphorb. 618, t. 7, fig. gia pa/nieulata Miq. 



31-34. {Agalloehe, false Calambao, false Calam- 9 Jack, in Gale. Jown. of Nat. Sist. iv. 386. — 



bouc wood, false blach Santal.) M. Aeg. Frodr. 1219, n. 40. 



3 Allem. in Guanab. (1844).— H. Bn. Eu- w See p. 163, note 6. 



phorb. 647 ; in Adansonia v. 34;4. — 0. brasiliense i' Lamb, et Vahl, Descr. Cinch, et My an. 



Walp. Ann. iii. 362; 668 {Sdnta-Zucia) . Lond. (1797), 62, t. 10.— H. Bn. Fuphorb. t. 23, 



* M. Aeg. Prodr. 1202. — Sapium Lawo- fig. 29-39. — Jatropha globosa GjEktn. Friict. ii. 



cerasus D-zss. Oat. Sort. Par. ^.Z, Zi2, ill. — 122, t. 109, fig. 3. — Toxicodendron capense 



StiUingia Zaurocerasus H. Bn. Fuphorb. 513, t. Thdnb. in Act. Sohn. (1796), 188, t, 7. — ^W. 



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



5 M. Arg. Prodr. 1204, n. 6.— Sapium biglan- 



