UPAS OF JAVA
\jˈuːpəz ɒv d͡ʒˈɑːvə], \jˈuːpəz ɒv dʒˈɑːvə], \j_ˈuː_p_ə_z ɒ_v dʒ_ˈɑː_v_ə]\
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(Bot.) Antiaris toxicaria [L.] ord. Artocarpese, a tree allied to the fig, having poisonous secretion ; in no way connected with the poisoned valley of Java, in which carbonic acid gas, fatal to all life, is continually emitted. The frequent rhetorical allusion to the "deadly upas tree" is, therefore ridiculous.
By Henry Percy Smith
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