Very nice pictures, Gurcharan ji! Regards
Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Swertia alata* (G. Don) Clarke in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4:125. 1883. > syn: *Agathotes* *alata* D.Don ; *Ophelia* *alata* (G. Don) Griseb. > > Annual herb up to 40 cm tall, 4-angled; cauline leaves sessile to > subsessile, ovate-cordate, 3-6 cm long, usually 5 nerved (3-7 nerved); > flowers 4-merous in panicles; calyx lobes 4-6 mm long, narrowly ovate; > corolla greenish yellow with one rounded depression at base of each lobe, > minutely pubescent or glabrous; filaments 4-6 mm long. > > Photographed from Chakrata Deovan Herbal Garden in September. > > -- > 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > >
