THE POISONOUS PLANTS OF BOMBAY. 226 
REMARKS, 
By far the most accurate description I have seen of this plant is 
that given by Brandis (p. 222, Forest Flora of North-West and 
Central India). I have therefore tried to follow him and Wight and 
Arnott as much as possible in the description given above, and the 
remarks that are to follow. 
There is one thing striking about the venation of the leaves of the 
tree. Half-way between the midrib and the margin of the leaf, the 
main lateral nerves on either side of the midrib suddenly swell out 
into longish irregular nodules, assume a deeper crimson tint and 
develop more abundant hair. This is more marked on the older 
green leaves than on the earliest tender crimson ones, So far as I 
am aware this peculiarity has not been specially noted by any observer 
before. 
The observation of Roxburgh, that there are two opposite glands on 
the upper side of the apex of the petiole and sometimes near the base, 
is not borne out by the experience of Wight and Arnott and Brandis. 
I have myself failed to find the glands Roxburgh speaks of, although 
I have examined several specimens in the plains and hills of Thana, 
and at Matheran, Clarke, in Hooker’s Flora of British India, in 
referring to the supposed occurrence of glands on the leaves of 
Terminalia bellerica, says that they are often on the petiole, or near 
the base of the midizb beneath. (The italics are mine.—K. R, K.) 
When Clarke speaks of glands on midrib, and on the under-surface 
of the leaf, just near the apex of the petiole, he was evidently thinking 
of or had before him the leaf of An (Terminalia tomentosa) instead of 
the leaf of Behedé (Terminalia bellerica). I have a specimen of each 
of these plants before me as I am writing this paper. 
DeCandolle says that the petioles are glabrous. Roxburgh also says 
the leaves are glabrous. It is not so. The whole organ is essentially 
tomentose ; so is the flewer ; so is the fruit. An ordinary magni- 
fying glass is enough ,to show the fine, white or buff coloured hairs or 
down on the petiole, midrib, nerves and their minuter ramifications ; 
on the upper and under-surfaces of the leaf, several weeks after the 
foliage appears. As the leaf gets. older and assumes a brighter green, 
the down on the leaf shrivels. It may then disappear and perhaps the 
oldest and most mature leaves may appear glabrous. That is the only 
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