Toxifera

Twenty years after Waterton walked across the Guianas, the botanist Robert Schomburgk confirmed that the curare of the Macusi Indians was derived from Strychnos toxifera. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)

Calabash curare usually consisted of Strychnos toxifera as the main ingredient. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)

The collections included three species of moonseeds, Chondrodendron iquitanum, C. tomentosum, and Sciadotenia toxifera, as well as Strychnos toxifera, which the Quichua Indians considered a minor ingredient. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)

Strychnos toxifera tree, which yields also the drug nux vomica, which you, Dr. Leslie, have mentioned. ❋ Unknown (1908)

[413] L. 10 oorali: a drug extracted from Strychnos toxifera; It acts by paralysing the nerves of motion, whilst those of sensation are left unimpaired. ❋ Unknown (1890)

_S. toxifera_ yields a frightful poison called Ourari or ❋ William Saunders (1861)

_Strychnos toxifera_, though it does not contain any trace of strychnine. ❋ James Orton (1853)

The Indian, when preparing to concoct this deadly compound, goes into the wilds where grows a vine -- the strychnos toxifera. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Its principal ingredient is derived from the Strychnos toxifera tree, which yields also the drug nux vomica. " ❋ Unknown (1908)