. The elements of botany embracing organography, histology, vegetable physiology, systematic botany and economic botany ... together with a complete glossary of botanical terms. Botany. DIPOTYLEDONES. 203 orange-like fruit, containing large flattish seeds, the latter being the poisonous drug Nux-vomica. From these two alkaloids, Strychnia and Brucia are obtained, the sul- phate of the former being kept in the shops. The poison variously known as Curare, Ourari, or Woorara, is obtained from S. toxiferd of South America. A Japanese Climber (S. Tieute) furnishes Upas TieutS, or Tjettek, which the
. The elements of botany embracing organography, histology, vegetable physiology, systematic botany and economic botany ... together with a complete glossary of botanical terms. Botany. DIPOTYLEDONES. 203 orange-like fruit, containing large flattish seeds, the latter being the poisonous drug Nux-vomica. From these two alkaloids, Strychnia and Brucia are obtained, the sul- phate of the former being kept in the shops. The poison variously known as Curare, Ourari, or Woorara, is obtained from S. toxiferd of South America. A Japanese Climber (S. Tieute) furnishes Upas TieutS, or Tjettek, which the natives use to poison their arrows. 10. Asclepiadaceae. The Milkweed family com- prises woody or herbaceous plants, with a milkj' juice, which is generally acrid and poisonous; ovaries two, but with a single common stigma; peculiar flowers and poUinia, adapted for pollination by insects. This large family (about thirteen hundred species) is mostly tropical, but of slight economic import- sis ance. Of the ornamental plants, the Wax-plant of India {Hoya carnosa. Fig. 318) is the most common. Our common Milkweeds (Asdepias) belong to this family. 11. Apocynacese. The Dogbane family is much like the preceding, but the pollen is granular and the corolla convolute. There are about nine hundred, mostly tropical, species. The tough fibrous bark of our native species of Apocynum was used by the Indians for making cordage, nets, etc. Caoutchouc is obtained from species of Siphonia of South America, of Vahea and Urceola, natives of Madagascar, Borneo, etc. The Ordeal-tree of Fig. 318. Wax-plant {Baya carnosa).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kellerman, William Ashbrook, 1850-1908. Philadelphia, J. E. Potter and Company
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