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strophanthus

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strophanthus

Any of a group of tropical plants belonging to the dogbane family, native to Africa and Asia. Seeds of the handsome climber S. gratus yield a poison, strophantin, which is used on arrowheads in hunting, and in medicine as a heart stimulant. (Genus Strophanthus, family Apocynaceae.)
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But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.
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