Monday, July 15, 2013



 Giant potato (Ipomoea mauritiana )

               This is use for Ayurvedic treatments (Constipation, Infertility, Impotence, Skin diseases, Dysurea, Liver diseases, Fevers, Asthma). It’s Fmily name is “Giant potato”.It is the stems woody below, herbaceous near the tips, glabrous. Leaves palmately lobed with (3-) 5-7 (-9) lobes, rarely entire, 5-8 cm long, glabrous or scattered trichomes. Inflorescences of few-flowered to many flowered cymes. Flowers with pedicels 9-25 mm long; corolla reddish-purple to rose pink, 4-6 cm long. Fruits capsular, 1.2-1.4 cm long, glabrous; seeds black.











Tiger foot mornig glory (Ipomoea pes-tigridis )

                       It’fmily name is “CONVOLVULACEAE “.
 It is Vines. Leaves palmately 7 – 9 lobed, often almost to the base of the blade, 10.5 cm long and 13 cm white in outline, the lobes narrowly oval to obovate, narrowed above and below, subacute apically, thinly pubscent to strigose on both surfaces. Inflorescence of few-flowered, flowers subsessile. Fruits capsuler, brown, ovoide,glabrous. Seeds black,gray pubscent.










 Purple heart glory(Ipomoea sepiaria )

                    It’s Fmily name is “CONVOLVULACEAE”. It is has Leaves ovate-cordate, triangular, oblong-triangular or lanceolate, 1 – 12 cm long, truncate, sagittate, hastate or with rounded lobes at the base, apically acute to acuminate, glabrous except for the margins which are often pubescent. Inflorescent few to many-flowered, often subumbollate-cymose. Fruits capsular, globose, 6 – 7 mm long, glabrous. Seeds pale, densely tomentose and often also with long trichomes at least along the margins.








Scientific name:  ( Plectranthus rotundifolius)

  This is a small plant. It’s Family name is “LAMIACEAE”. This plant ues for Ayurvedic treatments. Coleus  rotundafolius. Cheval. & Perr. Innala Herb perenating by means of lateral, tuberous roots, tubers globose-ovoid,to 5 x 3 cm; young stems to 23 cm high.Leaves 3.6-6.6 x 2.6-6 cm; petioles 0.8-3 cm long. Racemes simple, to 20 cm long; verticals 6-14-flowered. Floral leaves 3 x 2.5 mm long; pedicels 1.5-2 mmlong, pinkish-purple. Corolla 9-12 mm long, tube 4-5 long, dotted with yellowish oil globules, pale mauvish-pink, 4-5 mm long.

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