Erythrophlaeum, a genus of leguminous trees (sub-order Mimoseæ). The red juice of the bark of E. guineense is administered in ordeals and used for arrow-poisoning by the natives of Guinea and the Gold Coast.
Erythrophlaeum
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 419
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