Observations on some Economic Plants of Mizoram

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.