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A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).

An arrow poison from the sap of Antiaris toxicaria and other trees of the philippines and the coast of southern asia.

A tall tree, of the island of Java, with an acrid, milky poisonous juice. See illustration in next column.

A tree common in the forests of Java and the adjoining islands whose juices are poisonous-what has been said in regard to the atmosphere surrounding it being deadly, or even deleterious, is entirely faboulous.

n. [Malay] A tree common in the forests of Java and of the neighbouring isles, the secretions of which are poisonous. It has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere surrounding it is deleterious.