Many thanks Gurcharan ji for the Tamil name, will put it into the notes. Very keen on getting the Hindi and Bengali names of this plant.
Regards. Dinesh On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 !! >>> >> >> > > > >
