Thank you very very much, Tapas ji.
Regards.
Dinesh

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dinesh ji,
> There is a very reliable authentic book named "Botanical Latin" by William
> T. Stearn (third revised edition, 1983). I have a personal PDF of the same
> (22 mb) which can not be shared via email.  Here I get the following
> meaning which has to be followed:
> Regards,
> Tapas.
>
> *palaris*: relating to stakes, stake-like;
>
> *radix palaris, *tap-root.
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On much of searching, I think the nearest meanings of *palum* in context
>> of the genus name are: *stake* or *pale*.
>> References: Worldnews <http://my.wn.com/search/acanthaceae?p=0&t=details>
>> (search for the word *palum* on the webpage) and the Wiktionary
>> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/palus> page of *palus*.
>>
>> Wooden stakes / pales (palings) are normally seen used for building
>> fences.
>>
>> I am assuming that the dehisced segments of persistent calyx seen in 
>> *Erythropalum
>> scandens* fruit allude to stakes. I hope so. Please validate.
>>
>> Regards.
>> Dinesh
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear friends,
>>>
>>> I searched the net and some books available with me, to find meaning of
>>> *Erythropalum*.
>>> While Greek *erytho* is well known to be mean "red", could not find
>>> what *palum* in context of the genus name stands for.
>>> *I have a feeling that it may be connected to red dehisced fruit.*
>>>
>>> *Palus*, in Latin would be plural form of *palum*. In Wiktionary,
>>> *palus* <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/palus> seems to have range of
>>> meanings: swamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen, pool ... stake, prop, post.
>>>
>>> Please help.
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>> Dinesh
>>>
>>>
>>>
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