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means of the alkali it contains, as soda carbonate has been 

 given with good results. 

 Dichapetalum cymosum (Fig. 51), known to the Dutch as 



Fig. 50. — Yellow Tulp (Davy). 1. Flowering Stem; 2. Corm ; 3. Raceme; 

 4. Flower laid open ; 5. Style and anther, showing style-tips. 



Gift-Blaar (which only means poison leaf), is a plant common 

 in certain parts of the Transvaal, and exceedingly poisonous 

 to cattle, but not to horses as far as our observations go. 



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