This treatise is intended to be a helpful guide to the undergraduate and post-graduate students of Botany. During the time of Botanical excursions at places far and near, the students usually collect many plants which can be identified form the book with the help of their teachers. Moreover, the students will beable to learn the vegetative and reproductive characters of the flowering, short ecological notes, vernacular names and currently accepted botantial names of the identified plants. It contains short descriptions of a total number of 835 flowering plants. The plants are arranged in 129 families following the Bentham and Hooker’s system of classification. The fioral formulae of all the families have been mentioned at proper places. The book will also be useful to foresters, ecologists and other persons interested in taxonomy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.N. Sanyal
Dr. M.N. Sanyal (b. 1931 ) obtained B.Sc. degree from the Calcutta University in 1952. He worked as a Demonstrator and then as a Lecturer in Botany in St. Columbas College. Hazaribagh. Bihar for more thank five years and obtained his M.Sc. degree from the Bihar University. Ranchi in 1960. He joined Ramananda College, Bishnupur (bankura), West Bengal in 1960 as a Lecturer in Botany. He was awarded D. Phill. Degree by the University of Calcutta in 1971 for his taxonomic work on the flora of Bankura district, West Bengal. He made comprehensive botanical tours over different parts of West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar (especially Chotanagpur), Orissa Delhi, eastern part of Rajasthan etc. and collected a good number of plants. Besides, he botanically explored and district of Bankura intensively and extensively for more than six years. His long experience in taxonomy has helped him in all respects in all preparation of the present treatise.
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