Author: Franchet, A. [R.]
Title: Etude sur les Strophanthus de l'Herbier du Muséum de Paris.
Description: Paris, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, 1882. Large 4to (31.3 x 25.0 cm). 79 pp., 11 lithographed plates. Disbound. = A rarely seen paper by the French botanist Adrien René Franchet (1834-1900). Published in the Museum's Nouvelles Archives. "Strophanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae. It is native primarily to tropical Africa, extending to South Africa, with a few species in Asia from southern India to New Guinea and southern China. The genus includes vines, shrubs, and small trees. Several African tribes used Strophanthus as the principal ingredient in arrow poison. After dipping the arrows of their hunting weapons into a strong concentration of the ingredient, the effect was to stun their prey"" (Wikipedia). First text leaf detached, otherwise good, the plates clean. Not in Stafleu and Cowan.

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