(ἀντί), a Greek preposition, which forms part of many compounded words, meaning against or opposite; sometimes it refers to place, as Antiparos, sometimes to character, as Antichrist.

ANTARINE, and ANTARIS. The last is the name of a genus of poisonous plants, to which the noted upsas tree of Java belongs. Antiarine is the chemical constituent of this poison, which is obtained from the inspissated juice of the plant in shining whitish crystals, soluble in water. The fables relating to the upsas tree may be seen in the notes to The Botanic Garden, of Darwin; the real history of the plant in Dr Horsfield's paper in vol. 7, Botanical Transactions, and Raffle's Java, vol. i. 44. The native name of this tree is anchor. It is a monoeious plant, growing with a stem to the height of 70 or 80 feet. The bark is whitish, and on being wounded, yields the yellowish-white poisonous juice in large quantity. The stem sends off a few stout branches nearly horizontal, which subdivide into an irregular hemispheric crown. It is only found in deep forests in fertile soils. The inner bark is fibrous; and when long steeped in water is formed into coarse cloth, like the finer bark of the Morus papyrifera, but it is apt to inflame the skin when worn, unless thoroughly beaten and long soaked in water.