The paper deals with 26 exotic plants species used by the tribals inhabited in Purulia district of West Bengal. These plants belong to 24 genera and 17 families.The ethnobotanical uses recorded in this paper are unknown or less known to the outside world. So, it may be useful for further investigation.

In the present paper ethnomedicinal uses of 32 species of pteridophytes under 25 genera and 24 families, found in erstwhile Bastar, Chhattisgarh, have been discussed.

The paper highlights the diversity of ethnomedicinal uses of 41 species among tribals of two adjacent districts of Kheri and Bahraich. The study is based on comparision of uses of the same plant or the plant parts in different diseases, ailments and other complaints by the Tharus (tribals) and local people of these two districts. They use these species to cure several other problems with their traiditional and indigenous recipes.