Notes on Indigenous Vegetable Poisons— Seeds of the Abrus Precatorius

common plants in every part of India, and describes its botanical characters as follows. ''Flowering time at the close of the rains. Root ramous: stem ligneous, twining ; baric smooth ; young shoots with a few white depressed hairs. Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate, from two to six inches long. Leaflets opposite, subsessile, from eight to fifteen pair, linear, oblong, smooth, entire, both ends obtuse, the lower pair smalJer. Petioles, the common channelled on the upper side, and a little hairy. Stipules of the leaves lanceolate, of the leaflets minute.