Telanthera Ficoidea

Telanthera Ficoidea

Family – Amarantaceae.

A small plant. Its leaves take a fine crimson colour from July to September.
A favourite edging plant in the gardens. Native if Triopical America.

Tagetus Patula

Classification of Tagetus Patula

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Tageteae
Genus:	Tagetes
Species:	T. patula
Binomial name
Tagetes patula

A smaller plant than the above with smaller flowers. Propagated by seeds.

Tagetus Erecta | Marigold | Zendu | Makhamal

Classifdication of Tagetus Erecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Tagetes
Species:	T. erecta
Binomial name
Tagetes erecta

Common Names :- Marigold; Zendu; Makhamal.

A small plant with erect stem and erect branches. Flowers, handsome, showy, yellow.
There are many varieties some with flowers as large and as double as ordinary sized Dahlias. Flowers in Sept. – Nov.

Swertia Decussata | Kadu

Classification of Swertia Decussata

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Gentianaceae
Genus:	Swertia L.

Common Name:- Kadu.

An erect annual; stem densely leafy, more or less 4-Winged. Leaves broadly ovate, flowers very numerous, white with blue veins, in dense clusters. Flowers October – January. Western Ghats, Mahabaleshwar, Panchagani.

Sesamum Indicum | Til

Classification of Sesamum Indicum ( Til)

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Pedaliaceae
Genus:	Sesamum
Species:	S. indicum
Binomial name
Sesamum indicum

Common Names:- Til.

A pretty annual, bearing large tubular, while or rose coloured flowers
. It deserves a place in the ornamental gardens, though it is cultivated on a large scale for its oily seeds.
Flowers Aug. – Sept.

Saponaria Vaccaria | Sabani

Classification of Saponaria Vaccaria

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Caryophyllaceae
Genus:	Saponaria

Common Names :- Sabani.

A tall robust annual; flowers in corymbose dichotomous cymes, sepals with 5 broad green veins, petals, clawed, rosy. Flowers Feb. A weed of cultivation.
Ornamental when grown in clumps and blossoming in great profusion.

Portulaca Grandiflora

Classification of Portulaca grandiflora

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Portulacaceae
Genus:	Portulaca
Species:	P. grandiflora
Binomial name
Portulaca grandiflora

A very low growing fleshy herb.
There are many varieties both with single and double flowers, and also the brilliancey and variety of colours.
Nothing is more beautiful as an overhanging for plant tubs. Propagated by seeds.

Petunia Violacea

Petunia Violacea

Family – Solanaceae.

An annual of compact habit, with small purplish violet flowers.
These two species are natives of Argentine, grown in gardens all over.
They are the originals of the many double and brightly coloured garden forms which are in cultivation in gardens.
Propagated by seeds , sets or layers.

Petunia Nyctaginiflora

Petunia Nyctaginiflora

Family – Solanaceae.

An annual of compact habit, with white flowers about 5 cm. in expansion, sweet-scented.

Paracarium Malabaricum | Kala-nisurdi

Paracarium Malabaricum

Family – Boraginaceae.

Common Name :- Kala-nisurdi.

An erect branched herb, 0.3 – 1.0 m. high. Leaves radial and cauline; flowers small, uniform blue in many terminal racemes fonning a dense corymb. Flowers Oct. – Nov.