The Himalaya, a richest source of plant wealth and abound in innumerable interesting plant species. The floristics of this region is however not fully worked out. The book deals with the Polygonaceae of the Himalayas. Systematics of Polygonaceae continues to be a vexed question owing to the variability among the taxa of this family. The book presents a comprehensive account of 10 genera and about 70 species of the Polygonaceae with an over all assessment of the ...