Please ignore the truncated line * looks to be *B. cuspidata *.* Regards. Dinesh
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Gurcharan ji, these are just my thoughts ... > > Barleria-prionitis-flower-herbal-gard-Delhi-2 and > Barleria-prionitis-Ridge-Delhi-1 seem typically *B. cuspidata* - the > upper lip with the 4 lobes recurved to a great extent, with their lobes not > ending in a point, they are blunt at their ends, and the lower lip aloof > from the upper. > > In cuspidata, the corolla tube is bent (relatively more than prionitis). > There are thorns at all nodes. > > looks to be *B. cuspidata.* > > Not sure about Barleria-prionitis-Herbal-gdn-Delhi-3. > > In case of *B. prionitis*, all the lobes seem to be equal and > overlapping, the lower lip tends to overlap the adjacent upper lobes, all > of them end to a point. Upper and lower lobes appear to recurve to equal > extent. The corolla tube is not as bent as in *B. cuspidata ...* the tube > looks fairly straight. > > Let us wait for validations; my observations are not scientific. > I hope Shrikant ji helps here. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> *Barleria prionitis* L., Sp. Pl. 636 1753. >> syn: *Barleria* *coriacea* Oberm.; *Barleria* *echinata* St.-Lag.; >> *Barleria* *spicata* Roxb. >> >> A bushy prickly shrub with 3-4 spines in leaf axils; leaves >> elliptic-ovate, up to 10 cm long, tapering at ends; flowers orange-yellow >> in terminal spikes; calyx spine-tipped. Photographed from Herbal garden, >> Rajouri Garden and Ridge in Delhi. >> >> Common name: porcupine-flower >> >> -- >> 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
