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Updated: May 25, 2025
The bark is thin, the wood yellow, compact, exceedingly tough and hard, the root somewhat like liquorice; the latter is prepared by trituration and other processes, and the produce is a poison in substance and colour resembling pitch. Travellers have erroneously supposed the arrow poison of Eastern Africa to be the sap of a Euphorbium.
In the northern country the water-proofing matter is, according to travellers, the juice of the Quolquol, a species of Euphorbium. The flies are always most troublesome where cows have been; kraals of goats and camels are comparatively free from the nuisance.
Singular to relate, it was once much admired as an article of female dress! Balloons were also very generally constructed from it. A better kind of material, it appears, was subsequently found in the down surrounding the seed-vessels of a plant vulgarly called euphorbium, and at that time botanically termed milk-weed.
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