Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1892 — Deadly Flowers. [ARTICLE]

Deadly Flowers.

There are few flowers whose perfume is actually deadly. The flowers of the kali mujah, or death plant, found in the islauds of Java and * Sumatra. emit a perfume so powerful as to overcome, if inhaled for any length of time, a full-grown man, and killing all forms of insect life approaching it.