The Grasses and Bamboos of India/Sunanda Moulik. 1997, 2 volumes; xvi, 700 p., 138 line drawings, bibliography, index, index to synonyms, $79 (set).
Contents: Vol. 1: Preface. Introduction. Poaceac. Subfamily 1. Centothecoideae. Subfamily 2. Bambusoideae: Tribe 1. Arundinarieae. Tribe 2. Bambuseae. Tribe 3. Oryzeae. Tribe 4. Phareae. Tribe 5. Streptogyneae. Subfamily 3. Panicoideae: Tribe 1. Arundinelleae. Tribe 2. Paniceae. Tribe 3. Andropogoneae (Unawned genera). Tribe 4. Garnoteae.
Vol. 2. Subfamily 4. Pooideae: Tribe 1. Aeluropodeae. Tribe 2. Agrostideae. Tribe 3. Aristideae. Tribe 4. Arundineae. Tribe 5. Aveneae. Tribe 6. Brachypodieae. Tribe 7. Bromeae. Tribe 8. Leptureae. Tribe 9. Lygeeae. Tribe 10. Meliceae. Tribe 11. Milieae. Tribe 12. Phaenospermateae. Tribe 13. Phalarideae. Tribe 14. Pommereulleae. Tribe 15. Sporoboleae. Tribe 16. Triticeae. Tribe 17. Zoysieae. Tribe 18. Festuceae. Tribe 19. Hubbardieae. Tribe 20. Isachneae. Tribe 21. Stipeae. Tribe 22. Thysanolaeneae. Subfamily 5. Chloridoideae: Tribe 1. Cynodonteae. Tribe 2. Danthonieae. Tribe 3. Eragrostideae. Tribe 4. Pappophoreae. Bibliography. Index to genera and species. Index to synonyms.
"The present book is a comprehensive, illustrated account on the Indian grasses and bamboos, giving almost complete details of distribution taxonomic citations, flowering, fruiting time, economic notes etc. of each taxon of the family poaceae. The latest views of more recent agrostologists in respect of main division have been followed in this work.
"About 28 years back N.L. Bor's monograph covers grasses without bamboos as the pioneer reference work. Since then, many new species have been described, new records reported and many nomenclatural changes have taken place. Therefore, in the present work, the author has recited the family and incorporates the latest nomenclatural status of species with synonyms besides including bamboos.
"This book therefore is a well documented uptodate information source on the family and will be most useful to all botanists in the absence of any other latest work on this subject." (jacket)
[Sunanda Moulik is on the faculty of the Department of Botany, Behala College, Calcutta.]