POISON TREE OF JATA. 13 



Prêvious to the season of flowcring, about 

 the bci^inning of June^ the tree sheds its Icaves, 

 which rc-appear when the male flowers have 

 completed the office of fecundation. It delighfs 

 in a fertile and notvery elevated soil, and is only 

 found 'm the hirgest Foresfs. 1 first met with it 

 (the Antshar) in the Province of Poegar on my 

 way to Banjoowangee ; in the province of 

 Biambangan I visited four or five different trees, 

 from which this description bas been made, 

 while two of them furnished the jiiice for the 

 preparation of theOopas. — The largest of these 

 trees had, where the obliqiie appendages of the 

 stem entered the ground, a diameter of at k^ast 

 ten feet^ and where the regularlj round and 

 straight stem began, the extent of at least tea 

 feet between the points of two opposite append- 

 ages at the surface of the ground, its diameter 

 %vas fuU three feet. I have since found a verj tall 

 tree in Passooroowang, near the baiindary of 

 Malang, and verj latei)' I have discovered several 

 youn^^ trees in the Forests of Japara, and one tree 

 in thevicinity of Onarang. In all these places, 

 though the Inhabitants are unacqnainted with the 

 preparation and effoct of the poison, they dist- 

 inguish the tree b y the name of Antshar. From 

 the tree I found in the Province of Passooroo- 



