A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Strychnos L.(s.f.II)) [gen. sg. strychni]: gender = Tokyo Code 1994: 62.1. [> L. strychnos,-i (s.m.II) of Pliny; also called by him trychnos,-i (s.m.II) > Gk. strychnos, ‘a kind of nightshade’, Pliny (Lewis & Short)]; Loganiaceae or Strychnaceae.

Strychnon (s.n.II), also strychnos (s.m.II), + an epithet, was the name of various plants, including Physalis Alkekengi; Solanum nigrum; Datura Stramonium, Withania somnifera, used by Theophrastus, Pliny, Dioscorides (Liddell & Scott). TO DO

Strychnos nux-vomica, source of strychnine (a poison); Strychnos ignatia ("St. Ignatius bean" for Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Catholic Jesuit order, the beans concain strychnine and brucine. Strychnos toxifera source of curare; The ripe seeds of Strychnos potatorum “can be ground and used as a coagulant to purify water; or they may be rubbed against the inside walls of the earthenware water containers.”

- recipe strychninae grani partem vicesimam (Bennitt): take of strychnine 1/20 part of a grain.

Nux vomica: nux,gen.sg. nucis (s.f.III): a nut: the seed of Strychnos Nux-vomica (Bennitt)

Strychnina,-ae (s.f.I): (pharm.) strychnine.

Strychnia (Eng. noun), pl. Strychnias: “(archaic, chemistry) strychnine” (Wiktionary Mar2019).

“Strychnos Nux Vomica, the poison-nut or Koochia of Hindustan, has become well known to every one, from its fearful and fatal powers. The seeds of this plant contain two distinct principles, the one called Strychnia and the other Brucia; both are acrid narcotic, but the former the most energetic in it’s action, although tbe latter is likewise a very potent poison.... Strychnia has been detected in other species of this genus, as in S[trychnos] Sancti Ignatti, S. Tieute, &c.; the latter of which affords the formidable Upas tieute, one of tbe fearful Java poisons. Strychnia is also present in tbe Ourari or Woorara, tbe equally destructive poison of Guiana, which in not improbably prepared from some unknown species of this genus, or of one nearly allied to it” (Burnett).