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Vol. ix.] BOMBAY. [No. 4. 



THE POISONOUS PLANTS OF BOMBAY. 



By Surgeon-Major K. R. Kirtikar, i.m.s., f.l.s., 



Civil Surgeon, Thana. 



PART XII. 



(With plate N.) 



(Continued from Vol. IX., page 258.) 



PLUMBAGO ROSEA— (Linn). 



Natural Order — PiUMBAGiNEiE. 



MARATHI— asis Rnrer. 



An evergreen perennial shrub, 2—4 feet high, " very rarely annual," 

 (Boissier). The plant when grown in gardens and in conservatories 

 is much more handsome than when it grows under a blazing sun, 

 whereby its leaves invariably suffer in form and substance. 



STEM.— Suffruticose, procumbent near the root, sometimes scandent, 

 jointed where the leaves are inserted ; woody below, herbaceous 

 above ; thin, long, roundish, longitudinally striated ; near the joints 

 the green colour of the stem is darker green, lined with red ; usually 

 not much branched. Sometimes instead of a single stem a number of 

 branches shoot out direct from the tortuous roots. Some of these 

 branches are erect, others procumbent, trailing along the ground. 



