ha ha[?] wonder if he smoked it? and had visions!!! like timothy leary and his gang.
can you quickly (not spending too much time) track its origin may be you would know how to do it ... who named it .. or first described it etc usha di On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > DIMAG KHOLNE WALA !!!! CRANIOTOME...... may be this plant enlightened the > author so much that he named it like that, but surely thats a funny name > for this plant. Thanks for pointing Usha mam. > Pankaj > > > On Saturday, 9 May 2015 13:42:27 UTC+8, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >> >> *Craniotome furcata* (Link) O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 516. 1891. >> syn: *Craniotome* *versicolor* Reichenb. >> >> Perennial herb up to 1 m tall, branched in upper part; leaves opposite, >> broadly ovate, 6-10 cm long, crenate-serrate, acuminate, base rounded to >> cordate; Verticillasters lateral as well as terminal, on short peduncles; >> flowers creamish when opening, turning pink and finally purple; pedicel up >> to 15 mm long; calyx hardly 1.5 mm in flower, glandular hairy, elongating >> to 2.5 mm in fruit; corollaup to 4 mm long, upper lip hardly visible >> flat-truncate, lower 3-lobed, midlobe largest; nutlets pale brown about 0.8 >> mm long. >> >> Photographed from Mussoorie Chakrata Road >> >> 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/ >> >> >> -- > 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. > -- Usha di =========== -- 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.
