Nelumbo - The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India

U. Shukla ¹, A. K. Baishya ¹, S. Ali ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Allahabad, IN

Abstract

A note on the bamboos particularly flowers of Bambusa tulda which threatens a famine next year, and other 59 species of flowering plants of economic importance are dealt. About a dozen genera having interesting distribution are discussed. Mantisia with 3 species seems confined to this State. Drosera peltata Smith an insectivorous plant and Monotropa mifiora L. a ischolar_main parasite also occur here.

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A. K. Baishya ¹, P. J. Bora ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Arunachal Pradesh Circle, Sankie View, Itanagar 791 111, IN

Abstract

The communication enumerates the result of ethnobotanical surveys carried out in Dibru-Saikhowa Biosphere Reserve, Assam. Information on ethno-medicinal uses and other economic and traditional uses of 121 species belonging to 107 genera and 66 families gathered from four ethnic communities viz. Mishing, Moran, Assamese and Bengali are documented.

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