rOISON TREE OF JAVA. « 



The account of this author is too extensive 

 tobeabridged in this place, it concentiates all 

 thathastill hic\y been published on this sub- 

 ject; bilt the relation is mixed with many 

 assertions and remarks of a fabuleus nature^ and 

 it is high! ƒ probable that it was consulted in the 

 fabrication of Foersch's story. It is, however, 

 highly interêsting, as it gives an account of the 

 eiFects of the poisoned darts, formerly employed 

 in the wars of the Eastern Islands, on the humaa 

 system, and of the remedies by which their effect 

 was counteracted and cured. 



The simple gap of the Arbor Toxlcaria 

 (according to Rumphuis) is harmless^ and re- 

 quires the addition of ginger and several sub- 

 stances analogous to it, such as Ledoory and 

 Lampoegang, to render it active and mortal. 

 In so far it agrees with the Antshar^ which ia 

 its simple state is supposed to be inert, and before 

 being used as a Poison, is subjected to a prrpara- 

 tion which will be described after the history 

 of the tree. The same effervescence and boiling 

 which occurs on the mixture of the substances 

 added to the milky juice by the Javanese in 

 Blambangan, has been observed in the prepara- 

 tioa of the Poisoaof Macassar^ and in proportioa 



