Contents: I. General aspects: 1. Medicinal and aromatic plants in India/Rajendra Gupta and K.L. Chadha. 2. Chemistry of cultivated medicinal plants/D.S. Bhakuni and Sudha Jain. 3. Quality and chemistry of essential oils/M.L. Maheshwari. 4. Emerging plant drugs/S.S. Handa. 5. Plant tissue culture as a source of biomedicinals/C.K. Kokate. 6. Disease management of medicinal plants/G.N. Pandey. 7. Disease management of aromatic plants/N.K. Jain. II. Medicinal plants: leaf crops: 8. Belladonna/Jagmohan Singh and Romesh Chand. 9. Datura/B.L Kaul and C. Singh. 10. Foxglove/L.J Srivastava and A.K. Johri. 11. Henbane/S.K. Maheshwari. 12. Senna/Rajendra Gupta and S.K. Pareek. Root Crops: 13. Ashwagandha/K.B. Nigam and V.S. Kandalkar. 14. Ipecac/S.K. Chatterjee, P. Bharati and B.Yonjan. 15. Liguorice/P.K. Legha, G.D. Sharma and Rajendra Gupta. 16. Long pepper/T.V. Viswanathan. 17. Medicinal yams/R. Krishnan. 18. Periwinkle/R. Krishnan. 19. Safed Musli/P.C. Bordia, A. Joshi and M.M Simlot. 20. Sarpagandha/K.C. Trivedi. III. Tree bark, gum poleoresin and related products: 21. Ergot/K.S.M. Sastry. 22. Guggal/K.C. Dalal and M.A. Patel. 23. Neem/B.S. Parmar. IV. Flower and fruit corps: 24. Aloe, Psoralea and Mucuna/B.M. Singh, V.K. Srivastava, M.A. Kidwai, Veena Gupta and Rajendra Gupta. 25. Ammi Majus/Ajit Singh. 26. Opium poppy/S.P. Singh, Sudhir Shukla and K.R. Khanna. 27. Psyllium/K.C. Dalal and S. Sriram. 28. Steroid bearing solanums/R.Krishnan. Aromatic plants: leaf corps : 29. Basil/P. Pushpangadan and B.L. Bradu. 30. Davana/A.A. Farooqi and M. Vasundhara. 31. Geranium/Sharan P. Angadi and T. Vasantha Kumar. 32. Japanese mint/Rajendra Gupta. 33. Lemongrass/J. Thomas. 34. Palmarosa/Rajendra Gupta, S.K. Pareek and M.L. Maheshwari. 35. Patchouli/Sharan P. Angadi and T. Vasantha Kumar. Root crops: 36. Vetiver/Rajendra Gupta and S.K. Pareek. Flower crops: 37. African marigold/Virendra Singh, R.P. Sood, Bikram Singh and V.K. Kaul. 38. Chamomile/L.J. Srivastava and A.K. Johri. 39. French jasmine/H.C. Srivastava. 40. Hops/D.S. Rathore. 41. Kewda/P.K. Dutta. 42. Oil-bearing rose/V. Chandra. 43. Tuberose/S.K Bhattacharjee. Fruit and seed crops: 44. Anise/S.K. Pareek and Rajendra Gupta. 45. Ambrette seed/Umesh C. Srivastava. 46. Celery/G.S. Randhawa and Satinder Kaur. 47. Dill/G.S. Randhawa and Satinder Kaur.