POISON TREE OF JAVA.' 17 



The lesser branches arise from the stem in 

 pairs (opposite) and are very long, slender, 

 cylindrical, divergent, orspreading, and covered 

 with a sraooth grey shining bark ; on these the 

 leaves are placed opposite, in single pairs or on 

 a common footstalk, pinnate in two or three 

 pairs ; they are egged, spear-shaped, entire^ ter- 

 minating in a long narrow point^ corapletely 

 Sïïiooth and shining on the upper surface^ with 

 a few parallel veins beneath. — The petioles are 

 short and soraewhat curved. — Towards their 

 extremity the shoots produce Cirrhi or Tea- 

 drils, which appear without any regular dis- 

 tribution opposite to the leaflets ; and some 

 branches are entirely without them : they are 

 about an inch long, slender, compressed and 

 spirally turned back (recurvati) at the end near 

 their base a small stipula is found, 



The Tshettik grows only in close, shady^ al- 

 most inaccessible forests, in a deep, black, fer- 

 tile, vegetable mould. It is very rarely met 

 with, even in the wildernesses of Blambanofan. 



Preparation Xst^ of the Antsliar. — This pro 

 cess was performcd for me by an old Javanese, 

 who was celcbrated for bis superior ski 11 in pre- 

 paring the poison. About eight ounces of the 

 juice of the Anüh'ir^ which had been collacted 



