K. Vanamala Naidu , R. S. Prakasa Rao

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The paper lists 467 species of plants collected in the Tirupati Hills during four days stay of the authors in the hills in October, 1960. Of these 429 species belong to Dicotyledons, 24 species to Monocotyledons, 2 species to Gymnosperms and 12 species to Pteridophytes. Of the 429 species of Dicotyledons listed here, 8 species are new records to the Deccan region. The time at. Which the plants were collected in the Tirupati Hills, majority of the Angiosperms were in flowering. The flower colour is given to the plants seen in flowering in the hills. This is the first attempt at listing the plants of the Tirupati Hills.

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K. Vanamala Naidu , R. S. Prakasa Rao

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The paper enumerates 328 species and 2 varieties of vascular plants collected from the Tirupati Hills and neighbourhood, inclusive of three additions to the Flora of the Presidency of Madras and nine new records for the Deccan Region. With this, 797 taxa of vascular plants are known from the Tirupati Hills at present. Of these 647 are Dicotyledones, 118 are Monocotyledones, 2 are Gymnosperms and 30 are Pteridophytes. Flower colour and locally used Telugu names are given for most taxa.

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