Contents: 1. Inaugural address/M.B. Raizada. 2. Key-note address/S.K. Jain. 3. Plants of northwestern Himalayas with restricted distribution--a census/P.K. Hajra. 4. Rare flowering plants of Garhwal Himalaya/A.K. Goel and U.C. Bhattacharyya. 5. Some remarkable features of endemism in Kashmir Himalayas/Upendra Dhar and P. Kachroo. 6. New observations on distribution of plants endemic to India/P.C. Pant. 7. Rare and little known taxa of Carex L. from.N.W. Himalaya/Neelam Juyal and U.C. Bhattacharyya. 8. Delphinium uncinatum Hook F. and Thomas. (Ranunculaceae) and Lilium wallichianum Schults. f. (Liliaceae)--two are finds from northwest Himalayas/B.S. Aswal and B.N. Mehrotra. 9. Endemic species of Poaceae in N.W. Himalayas/N. Bhargava. 10. Is sahastradhara a threatened type locality?/P.K. Hajra.
11. Exploitation and threat to survival of some high altitude plants in Garhwal Himalayas/R.D. Gaur and J.K. Semwal. 12. Endangered medicinal and aromatic taxa of U.P. Himalaya/N.C. Shah. 13. Rare species with restricted distribution in south Gujarat/G.L. Shah. 14. A preliminary census of rare and threatened plants of Rajasthan/R.P. Pandey, B.V. Shetty and S.K. Malhotra. 15. A census of rare and endemic flora of south-east Rajasthan/Shiva Sharma. 16. Observations on some rare or endangered endemics of south-eastern Kutch/S.D. Sabnis and K.S.S. Rao. 17. Some rare plants of Madhya Pradesh/B.K. Shukla. 18. Rare and endemic flowering plants of Orissa/H.O. Saxena and M. Brahmam. 19. Some threatened plants of Bengal plains/G.S. Giri and M.P. Nayar. 20. Threatened plants of Meghalaya--a plea for conservation/R.R. Rao and K. Haridasan.
21. A census of endemic orchids of north-eastern India/Sandhyajyoti Das and N.C. Deori. 22. Studies on the flora of Balphakram wildlife sanctuary in Meghalaya--distributional remarks on certain rare and interesting plant species/Y. Kumar and R.R. Rao. 23. Observations on extended distribution of new and rare taxa of north-eastern India with special reference to Arunachal Pradesh/H.B. Naithani and K.N. Bahadur. 24. Notes on the little known taxa of Rhodiola L. from Sikkim and Assam/N.B. Singh and U.C. Bhattacharyya. 25. Some noteworthy monocotyledonous species of Meghalaya, which are rare, endangered or endemic/S. Myrthong and R.R. Rao. 26. Endemism in the grass-flora of north-eastern India/U. Shukla. 27. Dwindling taxa of Meghalaya/A.S. Chauhan. 28. Some rare plants in Khasi and Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya/S.K. Kataki. 29. Rare and endemic species re-collected after fifty years or more from South India/E. Vajravelu and P. Bhargavan. 30. Some rare plants of the Tamilnadu Carnatic/K.M. Mathew, J.B. Britto and N. Rani.
31. Extended distribution of plant species on Tirupati Hills/K. Narayana Rao and K. Raja Reddy. 32. Threatened plants of Tirupati and its environs/K. Narayana Rao and K. Raja Reddy. 33. Observations on rare, imperfectly known and endemic plants in sacred groves of western Maharashtra/V.D. Vartak. 34. Notes on some plants endemic to western India/G.M. Oza. 35. Observations on identities of some plants from Maharashtra/S.M. Almeida. 36. The dwindling plant species of Andaman and Nicobar Island/N.P. Balakrishnan and M.K. Vasudeva Rao. 37. Distribution and collections of rare umbellifers in India/P.K. Mukherjee. 38. New observations on distribution of plants endemic to India/N.R. Mandal. 39. Rare and endemic species of Indian commelinaceae/R.V. Kammathy. 40. Rare and endemic species of Rhododendron in India--a preliminary/A.R.K. Sastry and P.K. Hajra.
41. Studies on rare and endemic legumes in the tribe Hedysareae/A. Pramanik and K. Thothathri. 42. Endemic species of Hedychium koen in India/S.C. Srivastava. 43. Endemic and rare species of Calantha R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in India/S.R. Rathore. 44. Endemic grasses of India with an emphasis on rare, indeterminate and extinct species/s. Karthikeyan. 45. Threatened species of Indian Araceae/M. Sivadasan. 46. Tribe Isachneae (family-Poeceae)--endemism and rarity in India/Ved Prakash and S.K. Jain. 47. Rare bamboos of India/K.N. Bahadur and S.S. Jain. 48. Some rare Gentians/Sunita Agrawal. 49. Notes on endangered species of Scleria in India/Veena Chandra. 50. Studies on endemism and rarity in the family Eriocaulaceae in India/Ajay Mehrotra.
51. A few highly exploited species needing special attention of conservationists/S.S.R. Bennet and R.C. Gaur. 52. Distribution of wild relatives and related rare species of economic plants in India/R.K. Arora and E. Roshini Nayar. 53. Rare and endemic taxa in the botanical garden and arboreta of the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun/P.C. Gupta and M.N. Dakshini. 54. Threatened plants of India--some considerations on native genetic resources/R.K. Arora. 55. Rare and endangered liverworts of India/Ram Udar and S.C. Srivastava. 56. Threatened bryophytes of Nainital/Giri Bala Pant. 57. Rare and endemic lichens in the western ghats, southwestern India/P.G. Patwardhan. 58. Occurrence and distribution of some rare ferns in India/Anukul Datta. 59. Rare and interesting Pteridophytes of India--II/R.D. Dixit.
