Thanks, Tapas ji On 21 Dec 2016 10:05 p.m., "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 >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> 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 https://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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
