Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please.
On 1 April 2012 10:38, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Photographed Today from Vikas Puri, Delhi. Was growing outside a private > house so could net dig out for possible tuberous roots. Bracts and > bracteoles are definitely shorter than calyx lobes, flowers 5-6 cm long > blue-mauve; plants hardly 50 cm tall, leaves 5-8 cm long, long hairy > especially on petiole and young shoots, margin somewhat undulate with > prominent veins. The plant resembles one depicted as Ruellia nudiflora at > Flowers of India website. Please help in ID. > > > <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-HcKPqp3ChVY/T3fhh9mlIHI/AAAAAAAAAk8/KlQQXP_rgxU/s1600/Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas+puri-IMG_0081-Delhi-1.jpg> > Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas puri-IMG_0081-Delhi-1 > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oi8mcr9Hkw8/T3fhw1iMsyI/AAAAAAAAAlI/H6IDTcgyM4o/s1600/Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas+puri-IMG_0087-Delhi-2.jpg> > Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas puri-IMG_0087-Delhi-2 > > > > > <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-EKjcl6hpXcs/T3fiKb-L-8I/AAAAAAAAAlU/5K42pi_RlZk/s1600/Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas+puri-IMG_0084-Delhi-3.jpg> > Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas puri-IMG_0084-Delhi-3 > > > > > <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-H8eKt51QS_g/T3fiamAC0fI/AAAAAAAAAlg/9sOnM91yvmM/s1600/Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas+puri-IMG_0091-Delhi-4.jpg> > Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas puri-IMG_0091-Delhi-4 > > > Gurcharan Singh > -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1840 members & 1,10,000 messages on 31/3/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.