Overview of Indian Plants

Plant name:- Bauhinia galphinii N.E.Br. Family:-Caesalpiniaceae Description:-A semi-deciduous, sprawling, wide-spreading shrub to 10 feet tall by 15 feet wide with deeply lobed heart-shaped dark green leaves and bright brick-red or salmon-colored blooms appearing in the late summer through early winter.

Plant Name:- Aechmanthera gossypina (Wall.) Nees, Family:- Acanthaceae Description:- Herbs or subshrubs. 1.5 m tall, young stems and leaves dusky grey or whiteish villous, snowy or silvery wool, stem frutescent towards base and full of pitch, erect, 4-angular. Isophyllous, petioles 1.5 cm long, blade long ovate, 5-8 x 3-4 cm, acminate at apex, truncate, slightly unequal at base, margin irragularly cuneate, densely yellow white hairs adaxil, white wool on nerves abaxil; lateral nerves 9 each side, and convex abaxil. Flowers usually 3-fld. cymes clustered on terminal panicles. Bracts linear, 1 cm long, densely hairs. Pollen grains ellipoid, ornaments with bands.

Plant Name:- Adansonia digitata Linn. Family:- Bombacaceae Description:- Tree, Digitate leaf.

Plant Name:- Abrus Precatorius Linn. Family:- Fabaceae Description:-Abrus precatorius is a twining herb with delicate feathery leaves. Flowers are rose to purple growing at the end of a stalk. Fruits are short pods containing hard, shiny, scarlet and black seeds. Uses: Abrus precatorius roots are used for gonorrhoea, jaundice and haemoglobinuric bile. The oil extracted from seeds is said to promote the growth of human hair. Abrus precatorius is also used as an abortifacient, laxative, sedative and aphrodisiac.

Melastoma candidum D. Don Family:- Melastomaceae It is an erect shrub, Leaves elliptic to ovate, acute apex, 5-7 nerved, upper surface scabrous. Flower light pink in color.

Ervatamia coronaria (Jacq .) Stapf. Family:- Apocynaceae It is common garden plant. It is cultivated for it’s beautiful flower. Plant having white flower, 5 petals, gamopetalous., 5 sepals and gamosepalous.

Celogyne ovalis Lindley Family:- Orchidaceae It is an epiphytic orchid.