Thank you very very much Prasanta ji, for help with the names. About ghorakukra, we will go by trusting Hasan Mehedi's compilation of names. He has clearly put Santali in brackets next to ghorakukra. Regards. Dinesh
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Prasanta Hembram <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Santali name(s) of Hellenia speciosa (J.Koenig) S.R.Dutta To: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> Respected Sir, The transcription in Santali language is as follows; orop : ᱚᱨᱚᱯ Ghorakukra: ᱜᱷᱚᱨᱟᱠᱩᱠᱟᱹᱨᱟ On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 12:27 PM Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Prasanta ji, > Please help me with the following Santali names ... > > *orop* ... for the synonym *Costus speciosus* (J.Koenig) Sm. ... A > Santali-English dictionary > <https://archive.org/details/cu31924096339464/page/462/mode/2up?q=Costus+speciosa> > by A. Campbell, of the Santal mission > *ghorakukara* ... for the synonym *Cheilocostus speciosus* (J.Koenig) > C.D.Specht ... Flora - Mehedi Voice > <https://mehedivoice.blogspot.com/p/flora.html> ... a blogspot by Hasan > Mehedi > > Regards. > Dinesh > I don't know Bengali so i can't guarentee it's correct for the native name of *Cheilocostus speciosus* as ghorakukara from the reference, reads like native Santali though. -- Thanks with best regards Prasanta Hembram -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CABSQqC2c54oRarXStRu6pp%2B59sB0sDzb724vgv62p1Yk49DSQQ%40mail.gmail.com.
