The paper throws light on traditional and experimental gardens and discusses their role in preservation and protection of valuable plant resources with special reference to the Experimental Garden at Barapani in Meghalaya.

During the course of present study , since last one and half decade, various parts of Barda Hills of Saurashtra region were visited and 73 plant taxa were noted for ethnobotanical uses. The information regarding plants and their uses were collected from different types of villagers and tribal people who are staying in Nesses specially the Maldharies.

This paper gives an account of the floristic composition of Berbera Reserve Forest,in Khurda district covering a total forest area of 15,240.98 hectares. The present work enumerates 63 number of tree species, 31 shrubs and 47 herbs and climbers in a ratio 12:9:6 belonging to 58 families and 123 genera. The ground herbaceous flora is rich during rainy season. The luxuriant Shorea robusta population is unlikely of a typical coastal vegetation, which provides scope for the eco-distributional studies of the species. Orchids, normally a coast-shy taxa have been recorded from Berbera. The taxa have been arranged according to the Bentham & Hooker System of classification along with their correct nomenclature and author citation.

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.

The present paper provides a glimpse on the botanical aspect and the floristic diversity of the Singalila National Park, Darjeeling district, West Bengal along with the existing threats to its flora. Dominant families and genera are listed in Table 1 to 2 for dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous flora.

Panna National Park lies in Vindhyan hill ranges of Madhya Pradesh between 24º 27' to 24º 46' North latitudes and 71º 45' to 80º 90' East longitudes, covering an area of 478.81 sq. km. The present paper deals with the topography, geology, climate, rainfall and soil in general. Floris-tically, the present investigation is primarily based on 3 years extensive tours undertaken in different seasons along with available herbarium data in BSA, BSD and CAL; critical investi-gation of these resulted in to 609 species under 394 genera and 108 families. The vegetation of the area is discussed along with seasonal vegetation, hydophytic vegetation, vegetation of special habitats and weeds of Kharif and Rabi crops. A separate chapter deals with interaction of plants and animals and their favourable habitat and also plant species used as staple food by different animals of Panna National Park. Economic aspects of the flora, viz. cultivated crops, vegetable plants, fruit yielding plants, ornamental plants, wild edible plants, timber yielding plants, fibre yielding plants, tannin and gum yielding plants and medicinal plants have been dealt briefly. Conservational aspect of the flora has also been discussed in brief for the benefit of policy makers, foresters and other plant managers.

The present paper deals with 197 vascular taxa belonging to 152 under 64 families, including 15 species of ferns. Besides the vegetation account and rare & threatened species, enumeration of taxa collected from the area have also been dealt with phenology, habitats and place of occurrence.

Orang National Park is one of the protected areas of Assam and embraces an extremely rich floristic diversity of several plant species of botanical interest and an enormous economic potential. The present paper deals with 96 species of economically important plants of park. Of these, 55 are medicinal, 24 edible, 15 timber yielding, 20 fodder resources, 5 fiber yielding, 6 used for thatching, 3 dye-yielding, 8 provide plywood and 2 spp. tannins. It also highlights the various threats and conservation measures of the rich florisitic wealth of the park.