Dinesh ji Useful Plants of India (CSIR) mentions Medday keerai as Tamil name. Plus following information may be useful
Used as pot-herb; tender leaves good source of thiamine; juice of plant administered to children suffering from swellings and rheumatism. -- 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 !! >> > >
