JOURNAL 
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dlatural History Society, 
No. 3.] BOMBAY. [Vol. VII 
THE POISONOUS PLANTS OF BOMBAY. 
By Surczon-Masor K. R. Kirtigar, 1.M.58., F.L.8. 
PART VII. 
(With Plate I.) 
(Continued from page 230.) 
STRYCHNOS NUX-VOMICA.—(Linz,) 
(Natural Order—Logantace#, ) 
MARATHI—RACT 5 AIST. 
A tree over 40 feet in height, with a straight thick trunk. 
Root.—Thick and with a yellowish epidermis ; very bitter. 
Stem.—Often 12 feet in circumference. 
Brancuzs,—Dense, irregular, covered with a smooth ash-coloured 
bark. Young shoots shining and deep green, often tinged with red ; 
bark nodose, bitter, glabrous. 
PEtioLE.—}—4 inch long ; deeply grooved. 
STrPULES.—None, says Roxburgh in his “ Coromandel Plants.” 
Between the opposite leaves there is a raised line, which is perhaps a 
rudimentary interpetiolar stipule. 
Leaves.—Glabrous on both sides, shining, opposite, entire, coria- 
ceous, often decussate in an oblique manner, arising from stout nodes ; 
ovate or rotundate, sometimes elliptically oblong ; 3—5 nerved ; 
shortly acuminate or almost apiculate. 13 inches x 6 inches ; usually 
3—5 inches long. Base obtuse, somewhat unequal. 
PEDUNCLE.—}—2 inches. 
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