Dear Pankaj ... many thanks for validating the author citations ... am sure there are few pair of eyes who will critically check them ... so there is no harm in attempting to put them along with the common names that are being compiled.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Coromandel is an English name given to many places ... interestingly, most of them along the sea ... am sure you know, we have Coromandel coast in the south east side of our peninsula. At Wikipedia, in the context [ *Chinese Violet*, *Coromandel*[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asystasia_gangetica#cite_note-Hawaii-1> or *Creeping Foxglove*[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asystasia_gangetica#cite_note-SANBI-2>] it must be an adjective ... thus it would mean either Coromandel Foxglove OR Creeping Foxglove. It also very well suits one of the synonym - *Asystasia coromandeliana* ... meaning Coromandel Asystasia I missed on Coromandel Foxglove !! ... many thanks, will put it in my notes. Regards. Dinesh On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > I AM IMPRESSED. Actually I peeped into author citations first and > found all of them correct and had a smile on my face :). > BTW, Wikipedia says COROMANDEL as one of the common names for this > plant which is missing from your list. I imagine why they call it so? > Thanks for sharing. > Regards > Pankaj > > > > On Mar 26, 11:02 pm, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > > via Species < > https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species>> A < > https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species/a> > > > > > *Asystasia gangetica* > > [image: Asystasia > > gangetica]< > http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdi...> > > > > [image: Flowers of > > India]< > http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flowersofindia.net%2Fcat.. > .>[image: > > Discussions at efloraofindia]< > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21searchin/indiantreepix/Asys.. > .>[image: > > more views in flickr]< > http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fsearch%2F%3.. > .>[image: > > more views on Google > > Earth]< > http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.flickr.com%2Fservices%2F...> > > > > *commonly known as*: Ganges > > primrose< > https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/g...> > > , Chinese violet< > https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/c...> > > , creeping foxglove< > https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/c...> > > • *Gujarati*: kaligharani< > https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/gujarati/...> > > • *Kannada*: ಲವಣ ವಲ್ಲಿ lavana > > valli< > https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/kannada/l...> > > • *Malayalam*: > > valli-upu-dali< > https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/malayalam...> > > • *Marathi*: लवण वल्ली lavana > > valli< > https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/marathi/l...> > > • *Tamil*: மிதிகீரை > > miti-kirai< > https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/tamil/mit...> > > > > *botanical names*: *Asystasia gangetica* (L.) T. Anderson ... > > *synonyms*: *Asystasia > > coromandeliana* Nees • *Asystasia intrusa* (Forssk.) Blume • *Justicia > > gangetica* L. • *Ruellia intrusa* Forssk. • *Ruellia zeylanica* J. Koenig > ex > > Roxb. > > > > ... *must we wonder* ? > > > > - The Latin name of this plant *Aystasia gangetica* suggests that the > > plant is to be found along the river Ganges or in the Gangetic plains > ... > > stretching along many regions of India ... yet there seems to be no > name > > known in Hindi or Bengali !! >
