Many thanks Surajit ji for validating these names. Very helpful corrections. Regards. Dinesh
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:41 AM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for further discussions & corrections in the matter > please. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: surajit koley <[email protected]> > Date: 16 June 2012 21:47 > Subject: flowers of India > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > > Good evening Garg Sir, > > Now, it's something else. But before i proceed i would humbly like to add > that i know you must be receiving thousands mails daily to take care of. > So, it is not necessary to reply me back for all mails i write/forward to > you. I just wish that our group, or any other website maintained by Indians > should always display zero error data on everything they put on web for > world wide view. > > I noticed some discrepancies in the Flowers of India > site<http://www.flowersofindia.net/>regarding Bengali names of species. > Presently i would like to draw you kind > attention regarding two species - > > 1. *Tamarindus indica* - > http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Tamarind.html > The Bengali name of the above is TENTUL ( তেঁতুল ), never AMLI, though > some Hindi speaking people of West Bengal use IMLI. > > 2. *Combretum indicum* (syn. *Quisqualis indica*) - > http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Rangoon%20Creeper.html > The Bengali (also in Assam) name of the above is MADHABI LATA ( মাধবীলতা > ), it is the common name we use for the same. But there is another Bengali > name, BRAHMOLATA, which no one uses here. I am attaching an image file, > recorded from the book "Plant Groups" (a college text book by H. Mukherji), > here for your perusal. > > 3. *Hiptage benghalensis* - > http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Madhavi%20Lata.html > For the same reason as in point 2. this plant cannot be MADHABILATA in > Bengali. I do not know its Bengali name, i think it is uncommon in West > Bengal. > > Regards, > > Surajit Koley > > > > -- > 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 1870 members & > 1,18,000 messages on 31/5/12) 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'. > >
