The upas of Singapore is also said to contain with strychnine a glucoside similar to antiarin. |
She emanated poison as nightshade emanates it, the upas tree. |
One writer has likened the whole modern system to the upas tree. |
On another street in this city is another branch from the upas tree. |
But it was now far away, or at least no longer to be dreaded from the poison of the upas. |
The upas does not grow as a gregarious tree, and is nowhere found in numbers. |