Satish ji Your note above prompted me to check some literature, and first thing I discovered what you wrote. In Flora of China it is clearly written and illustrated that unlike other species whether glands are generally present at the tip of petiole (or say base of leaf blade) in T. bellirica the two glands are present at about the middle of petiole.
http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=94420&flora_id=2 http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200014745 Now coming to the presence of the species in India, The Flora of British India differentiates two varieties (rather three of which we ignore one right now). var: typica (syn: T. eglandulosa) No glands at the apex of petiole var. belerica, two glands at apex of the petiole beneath the leaf unfortunately no mention is made about the places of distribution of two varieties. Faced with this confusion I rushed to the Herbal Garden in Punjabi Bagh (6 km away) and a garden in our area whether this tree grows, and found that there is no trace of any glands any where on the petiole in our area. We should as such be looking at three variants (whether they have any taxonomic status or not be ignored) 1. The common Indian form with no glands at all 2. The form with two glands at the tip of petiole as mentioned in FBI 3. The form with two glands in the middle of petiole as mentioned in Flora of China. It would be interesting to know if this form grows in India also. I also read an old article from Transanctions of Linnaean Society Vol. 17, 1837, a commentary by Hamilton, in which two forms of Bahara (perhaps meaning Baheda) (T. bellirica) are recognised: Greater bahara or Bahara major with larger fruits and Smaller bahara or Bahara minor with smaller fruits, described from Duriapur and Domdoho, respectively (wonder what are these places). http://books.google.co.in/books?id=KBwhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&dq=Glands+in+Terminalia+bellirica&source=bl&ots=NFhrgPXI1H&sig=BGIsCB4D-xBKR714AC75LG4cBIg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1oyST-vCEI3irAeKoL3rBA&sqi=2&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Glands%20in%20Terminalia%20bellirica&f=false Perhaps some one can throw some more light on this important medicinal plant of India. -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday I happen to attend a slideshow/presentation where a botanist(Not > active on Net) showed a series of Terminalia leaves from different species. > She had tried to document the differences and characteristics of glands > indifferent individual species. What I learnt was T. bellerica often has > glands which are not at the base of the leaves but in the petiole itself > which appears slightly swollen midway in its length. It stimulated my > curiosity which made me write yesterday's request to Surajit.This is > something different than what Neil ji's observations. When I checked > elsewhere in whatever data available to me what I got is No glands in T. > bellerica. I will check with her again and if possible will try to collect > those pictures for opinion. > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Vijayasankar Raman (Google Docs) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> [image: Document] I've shared Terminalia bellirica page from >> FPB<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dpgVclesA4TroBoOy1jaCFx6vq3Y9C5xAfAIRx_gEBA/edit> >> Click to open: >> >> - Terminalia bellirica page from >> FPB<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dpgVclesA4TroBoOy1jaCFx6vq3Y9C5xAfAIRx_gEBA/edit> >> >> >> Terminalia belli(e)rica page from Cooke’s Flora of Presidency of >> Bombay_Vol. 1 >> >> (line 8 in the description para). >> >> >> Google Docs makes it easy to create, store and share online documents, >> spreadsheets and presentations. >> [image: Logo for Google Docs] <https://docs.google.com> >> > > > > -- > Dr Satish Phadke >
