Lonchocarpus. Lonchocarpus violaceus.

Botanical name: 

Lonchocarpus. Lonchocarpus violaceus (Jacq.) H. B. K. Stinkwood.—The wood of this papilionaceous tree is said to be used by the natives of Surinam as a fish poison. (Ph. Cb., xxxix, 282.)


The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.