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great distress, but the Chemical qualities of the plant may easïly 
account for the effect. Kot only is the odor very strong, but the 
taste is excecdingly acrid, as it is in most of the members of the 
spurge family to which it belongs. A cursory examination of the 
eyes a?id gills of fish caught by vieans of the plant would probably 
settle the qucstion,for the stellate hairs are excecdingly characteristic 
of the plant. The Concow are particularly acquaintcd with the plant, 
and use it for medicinal purposcs as well as for catching fish. The 
fresh leaves are bruised and applicd to the chest as a counterirritant 
poultice for internat pain; a decoction of the plant or somcofthe 
fresh leaves, is put into warm water which is used as a bath in 
typhoid and other f evers, and a weak decoction is taken internally 
as a cure for chills and fcver. (V. K. Chesnut 1906 l.c., p. 363). 
2. Acalypheae. 
Acalypha brasiliensis Muell. Arg.* („Mate ratos,” d. i. ratten- 
dooder, in Brazilië). De gestampte wortels als rattengift gebruikt. 
A. indica L.* („Indisches Brennkraut” (?), d.). Senega-surrogaat. 
ook als emeticum en diureticum aanbevolen. Blauwzuurhoudend. 
A. Pcckoltii Muell. Arg.* „Die Sklaven in Brasilien benutzten 
die J Vurzel zu verbrccherischcn Zwecken.” (Th. Peckolt, 1905). 
A. pruriens Nees et Mart.* („Caustico vegetal,” in Brazilië). 
Bladen en melksap scherp. 
Cnesmone javanica Bl* Bestanddeel van een Antiaris-pijlgift. 
Dalechampia capensis Spreng, f.* De bloemkelkharen prik- 
kelen op de huid. 
D. triphylla Lam.* Zaden in Brazilië giftig geacht. 
D. scandens L * var. cordofana. „A strongly stinging herb, 
beset with vehemently irritating hairs". (Welwitsch, 1. c.). Het 
geslacht Dalechampia heeft, evenals Tragia, brandharen met een 
wondende kristalnaald erin. 
D. tiliaefolia Lam.* Het versche kruid veroorzaakt sterk jeuken, 
het gedroogde niet. 
Tragia cordifolia Benth.* „ The wholc plant is beset with very 
vehemently stinging hairs which cause extreme pain, ofte?i lasting 
