Rampa agency constitutes hilly northern part of East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh State, India. The major tribes of the study area includes, Kondareddis,Valmiki’s Konda kapus, Koyas, and Konda kammars. The present paper reports 62 ethnomedicinal plants, along with the plants that are of use for fiber, timber value, house construction, house hold purposes, etc.

An account is given on 77 taxa of wild edible plants used by tribal and rural people of Saurashtra. The tribal and rural people of Saurashtra have a fair knowledge of plants and their uses.The wild edible plants have served as supplement diet for tribal and rural people apart from main diet, during working hours and field trips. The tribes interrogated were Maldhari (Rabari), Bharwad, Aahir, Koli, Vaghri, Bhil and Kangsia of Saurashtra region.

Singrauli is a large Tehsil in district Sidhi of Madhya Pradesh with 1904 sq km area, with 56% of land under forest cover. There exists a remarkable diversity in its floristic elements, with several medicinally and  economically important herbs, which are becoming endangered due to rapid urbanisation and development  of mines and power projects. An effort has been made to record the traditional  uses of 25 species of herbs used by local people. Ethnobotal'lical notes with distribution of these herbs in this area along with status of rarity in the region, have been recorded  in  this  paper.

During the ethnobotanical field studies at Bankura district a good number of angiospermic plants have been identified as source of non-conventional oil both edible and non-edible. In this paper eleven such plants like Aphanamixis polystachya, Argemone mexicana, Azadirchta indica, Butea monosperma, Ceiba pentandra, Celastrus paniculatus, Hibiscus sabdariffa, Holoptelea itegrifolia, Schleichera oleosa, Shorea robusta & Xanthium strumarium have been discussed.

This article highlights a research on integral aspects of plants and plant use among the tribe Kadars of Tamil Nadu and Sahariyas of Madhya Pradesh. This study will enable to access the diversity of plant resources used, but also to establish whether they use the same plant and or influence each other in the  adoption and use of certain plants.

Pus samples were collected from ear-disease  patients  and they were  investigated for the presence of fungal pathogens. Four fungal pathogens were identified and isolated. The predominant fungus Aspergillus flavus was selected for the following study. The antifungal activity of the medicinal plants Allium sativum, A. cepa, Cleome viscosa, Eclipta p •ostrata, Piper betle, Sansevieria roxburghiana and Solanum trilobatum were studied. Allium sativum and A. cepa showed significant activity  against A. flavus.

Typha elephantina Roxb. is a tall, hardy, perennial marshy herb, cultivated in a large scale in West Bengal. The immense ethnic potentialities of this species to the people of West Bengal have been investigated and presented in this paper.

Kerala faces a two-way depletion with regard to its indigenous knowledge capital and phytodiversity due to modernisation in the food and living habits and also due to various biophysical pressures. This is particular among Kanikkar-the major tribal community in Thiruvananthapuram district. The use of unique herbal heals and plant based foods once prevalent among this tribal group is fast vanishing. Such ‘mouth to ear’ knowledge capital with regard to the folk use of 30 wild plants collected from among this tribal group as a part of our survey based studies on the economically useful wild plants of Kerala is communicated.