Satish Ji, The inflorescence looks like Celosia argentea, but the leaves in the second pic point to a different plant. I may be wrong but to me there seems a mix up.
On 11/30/11, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com> wrote: > A herb observed on Sinhagad fort 25th Nov 2011. > Overall the flowers were fairly similar to *Celosia argentia* but the > spikes were much much smaller. The leaves are green bigger. > There were other *Celosia argentia* plants not very close but nearby which > had larger spikes and mostly leafless as against this plant with globular > inflorescence. > > -- > Dr Satish Phadke > -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh Department of Botany I.B. (PG) College Panipat-132103 Haryana Ph.: 09416371227