Crossword-Solution: ANTIAR 6 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

But there are times in the dank, hot nights of midsummer, when the ailantus is but a diluted upas-antiar of Macassar, tainting, albeit with no deadly essence, the muggy air that rocks its slumbering branches and rolls away thence along the parapets and in at the windows of the sleepers.

Yet there was comparative freshness in that tent-like apartment, as I entered it that night, shutting the door of mine after me, to prevent ailantus and upas-antiar from following in my wake.

Leschenault; and also a second dissertation, in manuscript (presented to the Royal Society), upon the effects of similar experiments made with what he terms the upas antiar.

This tree, according to Deschamps, is named in the country, _pohou antiar_; it frequently rises to the height of thirty or forty feet.

They have two varieties of the tree, as in Java; the one called _upas antiar_, and the other, much more violent and prompt in its action, _upas tieute_ In the preparation of the poison for use much mystery is observed by the natives, and various ingredients are mixed up with it; but as they are known to be harmless, such as onion and garlic juice, pepper, ginger, galanga, they are most probably employed to deceive the curious who might wish to ascertain the nature of this deadly composition.