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UNDER this heading Prof. A. K. Macbeth refers in NATURE of April 28, p. 649, to a probable Derris species, the native name of which he gives as Tua or Tuva. Without any philological gymnastics, this name is evidently a variant on the Malay name Tuba, applied to various Derris species. In Polynesia I believe that the word is also softened to Duva or Tuva.
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DURHAM, H. A New Guinea Fish Poison. Nature 133, 762 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133762b0
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