223 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. VIII. 
THE POISONOUS PLANTS OF BOMBAY. 
By SurcEon-Masor K,. R. Kirtikar, LM.S., F.L.S. 
PART VI. 
(With Plate #1.) 
(Continued from page 106.) 
TERMINALIA BELLERICA.—(Roatd.) 
(Natural Order—ComBrETacE.) 
MaratHI—BEHEDA ¥eagt, 
A very large tree with rusty pubescence on young branchlets and 
calyx ; attains a height of 60—100 feet; trunk tall, erect, regularly 
shaped; branches spreading, forming a coppery-tinted bright, broad, 
massive crown when young; bright green when old. Youngest 
offshoots beautifully crimson. 
Srmm.—‘ Bark 4 inch thick, dark grey, uneven, and tessellated by 
broad longitudinal furrows crossed by short narrow transverse wrinkles, 
the old bark exfoliating in dry corky scales. Wood lightly grey, or 
yellowish, open and coarse grained, easily worked but not durable ; no 
distinct heartwood.” —(Brandis.) The girth of the stem is 6—~10 feet, 
at times 10—20 feet. 
LeAves.—Uxstipulate, alternate, crowded about the extremities of 
branches ; crenulate, pubescent ; when quite young, of a bright reddish 
or copper colour, tinged with bright crimson ; older leaves bright green, 
pale beneath ; broad elliptic or ovate elliptic, 3—8 inches long, 2—3 
inches broad ; base often unequal ; the lower margin of the leaf tapering 
as it approaches the petiole, and finally merges into the upper margin of 
the petiole, leaving the petiole slightly grooved on the ventral aspect. 
Apex of the leaf obtuse, retuse usually ; sometimes acuminate, especially 
in the larger leaves ; margin of the leaf entire ; main lateral nerves 
arcuate, prominent, 58 on either side of the midrib ; often reddish, 
Prriote.—Roundish, longer than 4 length of the leaf. The tree 
sheds its leaves from January to March. 
FLowers.—Small ; male and hermaphrodite mixed on solitary 
simple spikes which are sometimes erect, sometimes bent, sometimes 
drooping ; spikes 3—6 inches long, arising from the axils of fresh 
leaves just before or about the same time as the year’s tender leaves 
shoot out. Sometimes the spikes shoot out from below the insertion 
