Contents: 1. The Genus pleione D. Don (Orchidaceae) in India/Sandhyajyoti Phukan. 2. Bryophyte flora of Barddhaman District, West Bengal/P.K. Bhattacharyya. 3. Plant based veterinary medicine from traditional knowledge of India/Laxmi Kant Sharma. N.K. Dadhich and Ashwani Kumar. 4. Two new additions to the genus astragalus L. (Leguminosae-papilionoideae) of India/L.B. Chaudhary and Z.H. Khan. 5. Lichens on Agapetes D. Don Ex G. Don (Ericaceae) in India/Dipanwita Banik and Pranab Bujarbarua. 6. Algal flora of Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, West Bengal/Ankhi Sau and R.K. Gupta. 7. Strobilanthes circarensis gamble, a synonym of S. Pulneyensis C.B. Clarke (Acanthaceae)/P. Venu and P. Daniel. 8. Additions to the moss flora of the Indian mainland/A.E.D. Daniels and P. Daniels. 9. A check list of algae from Chilika Lake, Orissa/J. Rath and S.P. Adhikary. 10. Microcystis Aeruginosa kutzing bloom in ponds of Maldah District, W.B/Pratibha Gupta and Sheo Kumar. 11. Some unreported medicinal uses of plants from the tribal area of Southern Rajasthan/S.S. Katewa, Anita Jain, B.L. Chaudhary and Praveen Galav. 12. Ricciocarpos corda (Hepaticae) from Maldah District, West Bengal : a new generic Record for Gangetic plain/Sheo Kumar, Jagdish Lal and Pratibha Gupta. 13. Streblochaete Hochst. Ex Pilger (Poaceae): A new genus record for India with a new species S. Sanjappae K.A.A. Kabeer and V.J. Nair/K.A.A. Kabeer and V.J. Nair. Short communications: 1. Strychnos rupicola pierre ex dop (Loganiaceae) - a new Record for India from the Andaman Islands/P. Lakshminarasimhan. 2. Kosagai Hills, Korba (Chhatisgarh State) a new locality of the 'Whisk Fern'- Psilotum Nudum (L.) P. Beauv/Deepak Kumar Sinha and Jagdish Lal. 3. A note on Elymus Kuramensis (Meld.) T.A. Cope (Poaceae) from India/Amit Chauhan and D.K. Singh. 4. A new combination in Docynia Indica (Wall.) Decne (Rosaceae)/Chhabi Ghora. 5. Recollection of Cistachne tubulosa (Schrenk) wight (Orobanchaceae) from Maharashtra after about a century/S.G. Pardhan, P.G. Diwakar and K.M. Rao. 6. Salvia reflexa hornem. (Lamiaceae)--a new record for India/P.K. Pusalkar, D.K. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan and Surendra Singh. 7. Leptopus Sanjappae (Euphorbiaceae), a new species from the Andaman Islands, India/R. Swnathi, K. Karthigeyan, J. Jayanthi and P.G. Diwakar. 8. Contribution to the flora of Himachal Pradesh from Pin Valley National Park/S.K. Srivastava and K. Chandra Sekar. 9. Fimbristylis Aggregata C.E.C. Fisch. (Cyperaceae), rediscovered from the Anamalais, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu/W. Aridason and P. Daniel. 10. Cicerbita Filicina (Duthie ex stebbins) Mamgain and Rao (Asteraceae) - rediscovered after type collection from Kumaon, Uttaranchal/S.K. Srivastava and Surender Singh. 11. Cyathopus Sikkimensis stapf (Poaceae) in North West Himalaya/Manish K. Kandwal and B.K. Gupta. 12. Rediscovery of Arisaema Sarracenioides E. Barnes and C.E.C. Fisch (Araceae) from the Anamalais, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu/W. Arisdason and P. Daniel. 13. Gaultheria brevistipes (C.Y. WU and T.Z. HSU) R.C. Fang (Ericaceae) - a new record for India from Talle Valley, Arunachal Pradesh/S. Panda. 14. A new variety of cheirostyles chinensis rolfe var. Glabra (Orchidaceae) from Diabang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India/M. Bhaumik and M.K. Pathak. 15. Oxytropis hypoglottoides (Baker) Ali : a new record for India/Amit Chauhan, D.K. Singh, S.K. Srivastava and S.K. Murti. 16. Lopholejeunea Sikkimensis Var. Tenuicostata (Hepaticae: lejeuneaceae) A new variety from great Himalayan National Park, Himachal Pradesh, India/Amit Chauhan, D.K. Singh, S.K. Srivastava and S.K. Murti. 17. Two New Records of Lichens for India from Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal/T.A.M. Jagadeesh Ram and G.P. Sinha. 18. Eria extinctoria (Lindl.) Oliv. (Orchidaceae)--a new Record for India from Andaman and Nicobar Islands/P.G. Diwakar, D.K. Agrawala and H.J. Chowdhery. Review.