The book being intended for the use of those residents in Chota Nagpur who may have no previous knowledge of systematic botany, as well as for forest officers and students, the writer has endeavored to meet the requirements of all three classes. For the first, a glossary and an artificial key has been compiled, with which the approximate position of a plant in the Flora may be quickly located. The descriptions of the species usually starts with a fairly popular account of the habit and other easily perceived characters, while fuller details, useful to the student, are added in smaller type. In some genera herbs have been described which have no known economic value. Such descriptions of the plants closely allied to a useful species often more effectively prevent its mis-identification than a more particular account of the speices itself, while they add to the botanical interest of the book. A few plants have been described in virtue of their beauty alone.
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