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Physostigma venenosum
Physostigmine Phy`so*stig"mine, n. (Chem.) An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; -- formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.
Physostigma venenosum
Calabar Cal"a*bar, n. A district on the west coast of Africa. Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant (Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.

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- Physostigma venenosum, the Calabar bean or ordeal bean, is a leguminous plant, Endemic to tropical Africa, with a seed poisonous to humans. It derives...
- Physostigma coriaceum Merxm. Physostigma cylindrospermum (Welw. ex Baker) Holmes Physostigma laxius Merxm. Physostigma mesoponti**** Taub. Physostigma...
- Peteria Petteria Phaseolus Phylacium Phyllodium Phyllota Phylloxylon Physostigma Pickeringia Pictetia Piptanthus Piscidia Pisum Plagiocarpus Platycelyphium...
- humans, however, and many wild animals are adapted to eating its fruit. Physostigma venenosum calabar beans, ordeal beans Fabaceae The toxin in the seeds...
- of present-day Nigeria, would administer the poisonous Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum, known as esere in Efik), which contains physostigmine, in...
- calabar bean. Julian also extracted stigmasterol, which took its name from Physostigma venenosum, the west African calabar bean that he hoped could serve as...
- harmala), which contains harmane, harmine and harmaline, and Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum) containing physostigmine. Some members of the family Convolvulaceae...
- research of physostigmine, a chemical substance found in the Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosa) of West Africa. In 1876 he published Ueber eine neue therapeutische...
- Phylacium Benn. Phyllodium Desv. Phyllota Benth. Phylloxylon Baill. Physostigma Balf. Pickeringia Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray Pictetia DC. Piliostigma Hochst...
- Oryxis A. Delgado & G. P. Lewis Oxyrhynchus Brandegee Phaseolus L. Physostigma Balf. Ramirezella Rose Sigmoidotropis (Piper) A. Delgado Spathionema...