Balkar ji You have nice close up of flowers, which I have saved on my computer, but it would be better if you upload them to the group.
-- 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 Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote: > Swertia is raining. Thanks Gurcharan Singh ji for sharing one more > interesting Swertia.. > Regards > Prashant > > > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks for this post Sir my plant also now identified >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> *Swertia chirayita* (Roxb. ex Fleming) Karsten, ; Deutsche Fl. 1025 >>> (1883) >>> syn: *Gentiana* *chirayta* Roxb. ; Swertia chirata (Wall.) Clarke >>> >>> Tall herb reaching 1.5 m, obscurely angled;cauline leaves subsessile, >>> elliptic, 4-6 cm long, 5-nerved, lower much longer and often petiolate; >>> flowers on short pedicels in large panicles, 4-merous; calyx lobes >>> lanceolate, 5-7 mm long; corolla lurid green-yellow with ovate 6-7 mm long >>> lobes, with purple veins, each lobe with 2 green glandular depressions at >>> base, each fringed by white or pink hairs; filaments free; capsule 6-9 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/ >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> >> Dr Balkar Singh >> Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology >> Arya P G College, Panipat >> Haryana-132103 >> 09416262964 >> > >
