Ethnobotany in South Asia/edited by J.K. Maheshwari. 1996, 459 p., col. plates, $63.
Contents: 1. New vistas in ethnobotany - editorial/J.K. Maheshwari. 2. Diversity, ecology and ethnobotany of the Zingiberaceae of Bangladesh/M.A. Rahman and M. Yusuf. 3. Some traditional folk formularies against dysentery and diarrhoea in Bangladesh/Jasim Uddin Chowdhury, M.K. Alam and M.A. Hassan. 4. Useful pteridophytes of India--a gift of nature to human beings/H.B. Singh & M.V. Viswanathan. 5. Indian medicinal plants : I. Achyranthes aspera L./M. Hemambara Reddy. 6. Ethnobotany of genus Sterculia L. from India/Anuradha Upadhye & M.S. Kumbhojkar. 7. Seabuck thorn (Hippophae spp.)--a less known wonder plant of ethno-medico-botanical importance in cold desert of India/S.S. Duhoon, M.N. Koppar & Umesh Chandra. 8. Ethnobotanical studies of the genus Euphorbia L. (Euphorbiaceae)/M.S. Binoj Kumar & N.P. Balakrishnan. 9. Ethnobotanical uses of RRL-herbarium-III/S.K. Kapur & T.N. Srivastava. 10. Traditionally important medicinal plants of Bhaderwah hills (Jammu Province) Part-II/S.K. Kapur. 11. Traditionally important medicinal plants of Bhaderwah hills Jammu Province III/S.K. Kapur. 12. Traditionally important medicinal plants of Bhaderwah hills Jammu Province-IV/S.K. Kapur. 13. Traditionally important medicinal plants of Udhampur district (Jammu Province) Part-I/S.K. Kapur & Paviter Singh. 14. Traditionally important medicinal plants of Udhampur district (Jammu Province) Part-II/S.K. Kapur & T.N. Srivastava. 15. A note on some commonly occurring medicinal weeds of Udhampur district (J&K)/Ajai Swami & B.K. Gupta. 16. An ethnobotanical study of Indus Valley (Ladakh)/Brahma Singh, O.P. Chaurasia & K.L. Jadhav. 17. Distribution and uses of some important dendrological components of Garhwal-Kumaon Himalaya/M.P. Sharma. 18. New traditional medicinal uses of plants from Jalaun district, Uttar Pradesh/K.K. Khanna, G. Shukla and V. Mudgal. 19. Unreported ethnomedicinal uses of plants from Mirzapur district, Uttar Pradesh/K.K. Khanna, V. Mudgal, G. Shukla & P.K. Srivastava. 20. Noteworthy medicinal plant uses from rural folklore of Raebareli district, Uttar Pradesh/K.K. Khanna, P.K. Srivastava & V. Mudgal.
21. A medico-botanical study in relation to veterinary medicines of Shahjahanpur district (Uttar Pradesh)/S.C. Sharma. 22. Ethnobotanical studies on food-stuffs of tribals of Tarai region, Uttar Pradesh/Kaptain Kishor Bajpayee & Gopal Dixit. 23. Observations on ethnobotany of the Kol tribe of Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh, India/K.K. Singh & Anand Prakash. 24. Ethnobotany of Tharus of Basti district, Uttar Pradesh/D.C. Saini. 25. Ethno-medicinal plants used for venereal and gynaecological diseases in Rajasthan (India)/V. Singh & R.P. Pandey. 26. Medico-ethno-botanical value of Saurashtra weeds/Goutam Bhattacharyya. 27. Ethnobotanical study of western Maharashtra/Jayanand Tosh. 28. Ethnomedicinal observations on some asteraceae of Bundelkhand region, Madhya Pradesh/Suman Bhalla, J.R. Patel and N.P. Bhalla. 29. Some interesting ethnomedicinal plants used by Sahariya tribe of Madhya Pradesh/R.M. Painuli & J.K. Maheshwari. 30. A note on ethno-myco-medicines from central India/Brajesh Kumar Rai, Shivshanker Ayachi & Arvinder Rai. 31. Plants used for skin diseases, cuts, wounds and bruises by the tribals of western M.P./Swati Samwatsar & V.B. Diwanji. 32. House and household of tribals of western M.P. : an ethnobotanical study/Swati Samwatsar & V.B. Diwanji. 33. Plants used in snake, scorpion and insect bites/stings by Adibasis of Jhabua (M.P.) India/Swati Samwatsar, V.B. Diwanji. 34. Some ethnomedicinal plants of the Murias of the Indravati Tiger Reserve, Bastar, (Madhya Pradesh)/Anand Kumar. 35. Ethnobotanical documentation of primitive tribes of Madhya Pradesh, India/J.K. Maheshwari. 36. Native phyto-therapy for snake bite in Nallamalais, Eastern Ghats, India/M. Hemambara Reddy, K. Vijayalakshmi & R.R. Venkata Raju. 37. Herbal plants in Mannanur forest, Mahaboobnagar district, Andhra Pradesh/T. Pullaiah & Dharmachandra Kumar. 38. Hepatic stimulant plants of Andhra Pradesh, India/A. Rajendran, N. Rama Rao & A.N. Henry. 39. Ethnobotany of Kurnool district - some wild plants used as food/P. Saiprasad Goud & T. Pullaiah. 40. Ethnobotany of Soligas in Biligiri Rangana, Karnataka, Southern India/V.B. Hosagoudar & A.N. Henry.
41. Ethnobotany of Gowlis of Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka/M.J. Bhandary, K.R. Chandrashekar & K.M. Kaveriappa. 42. Ethnobotanical review : wild fibre yielding plants of Kolli hills, Tamilnadu/S. Geetha, G. Lakshmi & P. Ranjithakani. 43. Medicinal plants among the Irulars of Attappady and Boluvampatti forests in the Nilgiri biosphere reserve/P. Balasubramanian & S. Narendra Prasad. 44. Ethnobotany of Kadars, Malasars and Muthuvans of Anamalais in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India/V.B. Hosagoudar & A.N. Henry. 45. Ethnobotanical studies among some tribals of Nilgiri district, Tamilnadu/S.K. Mandal & S.K. Basu. 46. Ethnobotany of tribes Irular, Kurumban and Paniyan of Nilgiris in Tamilnadu, Southern India/V.B. Hosagoudar & A.N. Henry. 47. Less known uses of plants of Kollimalai (Salem Dt., Tamilnadu) in South India/P. Dwarakan & A.A. Ansari. 48. Plants used by Kattunayakkas for stupefying fishes/M. Cyrilnayagam, R. Ravi & R. Kandasamy. 49. Ethno-veterinary medicinal plants of Kolli hills, Tamilnadu/S. Geetha, G. Lakshmi & P. Ranjithakani. 50. Ethnobotany of the Kanikkars of South Tamil Nadu-I/P. Nagendra Prasad, A.J.A. Ranjit Singh, L.M. Narayanan & C.R. Natarajan. 51. Folk plants of food, medicine, adornment and repellent used by the Paniyar community in North Kerala/A. Nazarudeen, S. Seeni, K.C. Koshy & P. Pushpangadan. 52. Traditional uses of wetland plants of Eastern Orissa/H.S. Das, P.C. Panda & S.N. Patnaik. 53. Medicinal uses of some flowers by santhals of West Bengal/Archana Banerjee. 54. Ethnomedicine in Bankura district, West Bengal/Ashis Ghosh, Sarathi Maity & Malaty Maity. 55. Ethnobotany of the practice of piggery by the Savars in the district of Purulia in West Bengal/Ramsankar Basu & Prasanta Kumar Mukherjee. 56. Some ethnobotanical claims from the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal/H.A. Molla & B. Roy. 57. On the domestic use of some unreported plants of West Dinajpur district (West Bengal)/R.N. Banerjee & Chhabi Ghora. 58. Ethnomedicine of the tribe Kharia of Midnapore district, West Bengal/Dipak Kumar Mishra, Godhuli Samanta & Tapan Kumar Mishra. 59. Plant use - a recent perspective from Eastern Himalayas/S. Panda. 60. Ethnobotany of certain underground parts of plants of north-eastern region, India/M. Islam.
61. An ethno-medico-botanical study of Golaghat district, Assam : native plant remedies for jaundice/Ashok K. Pandey, H.R. Bora & S.C. Deka. 62. Ethnobotanical studies on the mishing tribes of Assam with special reference to food and medicinal plants-I/J. Singh, T.C. Bhuyan & A. Ahmed. 63. Less known wild food plants of Assam/H.R. Bora & A.K. Pandey. 64. Some important medicinal plants of the tropical, subtropical and temperate region of Siang, Sabansiri and Tirap districts of Arunachal Pradesh/K.C. Tiwari & V.P. Tiwari. 65. Plants used in medico-sexual purposes by Meitei community in Manipur state, India/B.K. Singh Huidrom. 66. Superstition in botanical folklore with reference to Meitei culture/P. Kumar Singh & H.B. Kumar Singh. 67. Ethnobotanical observation on the preparation of Choarak (a local wine) in Tripura state, India/B.K. Singh Huidrom. 68. Ethnomedicinal plants of bay islands for skin care/B.K. Sinha, Vinod Maina & P.M. Padhye. 69. Ethnobotanical studies of the Nicobarese of Chowra island of Nicobar group of Islands/H.S. Dagar & J.C. Dagar. 70. Ethnobotanical wealth of Chhotanagpur plateau- IV. Some medicinal plants used against intestinal worms/Ashwini Kumar Mahato & Pushpa Mahato. 71. Roots--a vital plant part to cure body ailments among tribal/rural folklore of Western Bihar/Gyanesh Shukla & B.K. Verma. 72. Leaves and flowers utilized as supplementary vegetables in Darbhanga (North Bihar) and their ethnobotanical significance/Vidyanath Jha, Sunita Mishra, A.N. Kargupta & Abha Jha. 73. Ethno-medico-botanical survey of Chaibasa, Singhbhum district, Bihar/S.P. Jain. 74. Traditional practice for oral health care in Nepal/Narayan P. Manandhar. 75. Ethnobotanical observations on ferns & fern allies of Nepal/Narayan P. Manandhar. 76. Medicinal plants of the Terai of Eastern Nepal/M. Siwakoti & S.K. Verma. 77. Ethnobotany of Mizoram--a preliminary survey/J.H. Lalramnghinglova.
"The present volume contains an editorial review article - new vistas in ethnobotany alongwith 76 other articles written by eminent ethnobotanist working in various scientific research and academic institutions in South Asia. Ethnobotany of tribals/traditional uses of plants in different parts of South Asia and ethnobotanical uses of herbarium have been dealt with in this work besides many other useful articles. This work provides a glimpse of rich ethnobotanical heritage of South Asia." (jacket)