Good morning Sir, I do not have the pod length right now, hope to submit the stat by this evening.
Thank you very much. Regards, surajit On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Surajit ji > For arriving at exact name please mention the fruit length of your plant: > > If twiner longer than 2 m, pod longer than 30 cm it is V. unguiculata > subsp. sesquipedalis (L.) Verdcourt > > If erect or trailing shorter than 1 m, pod pendulous, 15-30 cm long....it > is V. unguiculata subsp. unguiculata (V. sinensis (L.) Hassk.) > > If erect or trailing shorter than 1 m, pod erect or spreading, shorter > than 15 cm, it should be V. unguiculata subsp. cylindrica (L.) Verdc. (V. > catiang (Burm.f.) Walp. > > -- > 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/ > > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:57 PM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Good morning >> >> One interesting practice The Plant List maintains is grading of >> "Confidence level" <http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/ild-3613>, >> what GRIN doesn't<http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?41645>! >> >> Before we label this plant as *Vigna unguiculata* subsp. *unguiculata*(L.) >> Walp. please read the following - >> >> Page 389, partly, Bengal Plants, David Prain :- >> >> VIGNA Catjang Endl. ; F. B. I ii. 205 ; E. D. V, 116. Dolichos Catjang F. >> I. iii. 303. >> In all the provinces, cultivated. >> A suberect herb. *Hind*. Lobia, ransa; *Beng*. Barbati; *Santal*. >> Ghangra. >> >> >> Page 205-206, partly, F. B. I. ii. :- >> >> 4. V. Catiang, Endl.; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 188; annual, suberect or >> twining,' stipules large attached above the base, leaflets membranous >> ovate-rhomboidal entire or slightly lobed, racemes few-flowered >> long-peduncled, pod very long many-seeded. Dolichos Catiang, Linn.; DC. >> Prodr. ii. 399; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 303; Wall Cat. 5549. D. sinensis, Linn.,; ; >> DC. loc. cit.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 302; Wall. Cat. 6550; Bot. Mag. t. 2232; >> W. & A. Prodr. 250. Vigna sinensis, Endl.; Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 386. >> Dolichos tranquebaricusm Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii. t. 70. D. monachalis, >> Brot.; DC. Prodr. loc. cit, >> Native and universally cultivated in the tropical zone. - DISTRIB. >> Tropics of old world. >> Low and sub-erect (V.Catiang) or tall and voluble ( V. sinensis), always >> glahrous or nearly so. Stipules 1/3-1/2 in. long, attached and persistent >> as in Phaseolus § Strophostylis; leaflets membranous, 3-6 in. long, acute, >> very variable in shape, broad or narrow ovate, or ovate-rhomboidal, with >> the two sides below the middle prolonged into obtuse lobes. Peduncles often >> exceeding the leaves, 3-6-flowered ; pedicels very short. Calyx glabrous, >> under 1 in ; teeth lanceolate or deltoid- cuspidate. Corolla yellow >> or reddish, twice the calyx. Pod in some of the cultivated forms 1 or even >> 2 feet long, under 1/2 in. broad, edible ; seeds 10 to 20. >> >> SUBGEN. 2. Plectrotropis. Keel prolonged into a distinct beak, so >> that this group connects *Vigna proper* with *Phaseolus*. >> >> >> These pictures are of BARBOTI in Bengali, a vegetable extensively used >> these days in mid-day meal scheme in schools as per GoI order. >> >> A cultivated plant recorded on 15/11/12, in Hooghly >> >> Thank you & Regards, >> >> surajit >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > > --
