Nelumbo - The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India

J. N. Singh ¹, V. Mudgal ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

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The edaphic conditions of the habitat of Coptis tetla Wall. have been discussed. The soils, where this species grows either under cultivation or in wild are moderately acidic to highly acidic, poor in surface porosity, very rich in silica content and possess insufficient amount of inorganic binding agents. However, the soils in cultivated fields are satisfactory in organic carbon status, water-holding ability and cation exchange capacity but inadequate presence of liming material and temperate climate adversely effect their energy materials. The 3oils at Malenja where this species is growing wild have textural limitation and anthropogenic interference. In the end the paper is concluded with suggestions. Results depict that the reasons for rarity and depletion of this species are not only anthropogenic but also environmental.

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T. K. Paul ¹, V. Mudgal ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

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Koraput (Orissa) is located between 18°48'N latitude and 82°44' E longitude. An ethnobotanical survey during the month of November-December, 1984 among the tribals namely Kondh and Paroja residing in Sunki, Metabalsa, Sitaguda, Pansumangudi, Lauri of Potangi block, Dayanidhiguda of Koraput block, Lakhimpur, Narayanpatna of Narayan-patna block resulted in gathering many unreported uses of Medicinal plants. These are presented here.

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V. Mudgal ¹, D. C. Pal ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

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Ths traditional uses of medicinal plants by tribals of Mayurbhanj (Orissa) have been compared with the biological activity reported in experimental reports. While some of the tribal claims are supported by the experimental reports some require to-be studied experimentally as well as clinically.

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Bijoy Krishna ¹, V. Mudgal ¹, G. K. Munshi ²

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN
2 Central Drugs Laboratory, Calcutta, IN

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V. Mudgal ¹, S. K. Jain ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

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G. N. Tribedi ¹, V. Mudgal ¹, D. C. Pal ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

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More thmn 100 medicinal plants belonging to 63 genera and 42 families are found in the mangrove vegetation of Sunderbans, West Bengal, India. Seved of these plant-species, e.g. Avicennia marina, Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, B. parviflora, Ceriops decandra, Nypa fruticans, etc. are restricted to the marshy deltaic estuary only. After prolonged field work, and comparison with the available published literature it is seen that medicinal uses of 43 species, and one variety such as Aegialitis rotundifolia, Blumea wightiana, Ceriops decandra, Heliotropium curassavicum are practically unknown or less known.

The specimens of these species have been exhibited in crude drug museum of Pharmacognosy Section, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah.

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A. K. Sahoo ¹, V. Mudgal ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

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Ethnobotanical studies made among the tribals of Ranchi, Gumla, Lohardaga, Palamau districts of Bihar are presented. The paper provides uses of 146 plants for medicines, veterinary medicines, food, fodder, household, house building materials, various social and religious ceremonies. A comparison with the literature reveals that 42 uses of various plants reported in the present paper are new. Besides nine plant species reported to be used by the tribals of Chotanagpur for various purposes have not been mentioned in the earlier literature.

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Sunit Mitra ¹, Subhajit Bandyopadhyay ¹, V. Mudgal ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

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K. K. Khanna ¹, V. Mudgal ², G. Shukla ³, P. K. Srivastava ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Allahabad, IN
2 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN
3 Botany Department, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, IN

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The paper deals with unreported medicinal uses of eighteen plant species (belonging to sixteen families) exploited as aphrodisiac among the folk-lores of Uttar Pradesh plains, India. The data are outcome of ethnobotanical survey of more than 300 villages of nine districts viz., Bahraich, Gonda, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Mirzapur, Pratapgarh, Raebareli, Sidharthnagar and Sultanpur. Local name of plant, part of plant used, mode of drug preparation, administration and doses are given under each species.

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V. Mudgal ¹, R. N. Kayal ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

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The diagnostic, characters of flower powders of H. rosa-sinensis and its adulterants have been worked out in the present study. The powder of the genuine drug can be identified on the basis of frequency of different types of trichomes, measurements of pollen grains and its spines, number of pores and fluorescence response under ultra-violet lamp.

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V. Mudgal ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

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Callus from ischolar_main portion of seedlings of Convolvulus pluricaulis has been cultured on a medium (BM) based on Murashige and Skoog's (1962) medium. Sucrose, 1.5%; casein hydrolysate, 1250 mg/l ; IAA, 15 mg/l ; kinetin 1.5 mg/l and GA, 0.5 mg/l, individually were found optimum for the maximum growth of callus.

Maximum hypotensive activity was noticed in the extract of callus tissue cultured on BM supplemented with a higher concentration of casein hydrolysate.

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D. C. Pal ¹, B. P. Uniyal ¹, V. Mudgal ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

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