Compendium of Indian Medicinal Plants, 1980-1984 (Vol. 3)

This detailed treatise is written for botanists, chemists and biologists as companion volume to Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants by Chopra, Nayar & Chopra and covers the five-year period 1980-84. Volume 1 (1960-69) was published during February 1990 and volume 2 in April 1991. The reprint editions of these volumes have come out in 1993 which contain a new index of chemical structures. Thus, these volumes have four indexes each. The format followed for Vol. 3 is similar to that of Vols. 1 and 2, i.e. the write-up on each plant also includes new type of data/information, viz. chemical structures of new compounds isolated and the biological work on pure constituents isolated from a plant. The first part of Vol. 3, like preceding volumes, presents the logistics of the write-up in an ‘Explanatory Introduction’, which is followed by the description of 1600 plants in 696 pages. Finally, four indexes (163 pages) comprising local names, chemical constituents, biological activities and chemical structures have been provided. The volumes will be welcomed by all those working on medicinal plants/natural products who will appreciate that such a wealth of information has been assembled in a classified manner in a single volume. Volume 4 covering the five-year period 1985-89 is under preparation.