Note 196 — V
Philip Askell Benton translation
Whilst the name of one variety mentioned by Foureau, Sarcocephalus esculentus, allows one to conclude that its fruit is edible (Doc. sc., i. 406), other plants of this species are repeatedly referred to as being those from whose roots arrow poison is prepared. A confirmation of this is that one regularly finds on them the caterpillars of the Daphnis Nerii, which almost everywhere live only on strongly poisonous plants such as Nerium.