A survey was carried out during 1994-2000 in forest areas and plains of Andhra Pradesh for information on wild edible plants and personal interviews were conducted with various tribals and local villagers. A total of 419 wild species belonging to 100 families are used for edible purpose, of which 157 species are fruits, 160 species leaves, 38 spp. tender shoots and shoot tips, 37 spp. stem and root tubers, 27 spp. seeds and grains, 8 whole plant, 15 flowers and flower buds, 1 radicle, seedlings, 2 gums, 3 tender buds, 2 bulbils. These plants are used in normal period or in times of scarcity

A new species, Ruellia sivarajanii has been described from Kerala.

Seven new combinations are proposed under the segregate genus Chamaesyce S.F. Gray for the taxa of Euphorbia subg. Chamaesyce (Euphorbiaceae) from India.

Hylodesmum repandum (Vahl) H. Ohashi & R.R. Mill belonging to Fabaceae – Papilionoideae is recollected from Andhra Pradesh after a gap of more than a century. It is collected from Paderu, in Vishakapatnam district and from Rampa, in East Godavari district. This species is distingu-ishable in having brick red flowers and crescent shaped pod. Detailed description and photo-graphs are provided to facilitate identification

Thirty one plant species belonging to 23 families employed ethnomedicinally in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh by tribal and rural people for treating jaundice are reported along with local names of the plant species, method of preparation, mode of administration and dose-regime

Cissus xavierensis sp. nov. is described from Tamil Nadu allied to Cissus quadrangularis L. but differs from having flat stem and acute calyx lobes

The new species Globba rahmanii Yusuf (Zingiberaceae) sp. nov. from Bangladesh is described and illustrated. The species grows in shady moist hill slopes at high altitude, 1200 m, in Chittagong and Hill Tracts districts of Bangladesh. Diagnostic morphological characters from closely related taxa are discussed.

Hippocratea parkinsonii Chakrab. & Gang. is reinstated to specific rank.