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Synopsis This treatise is intended to be a helpful guide to the undergraduate and post-graduate students of Botany. During the time of Botanical excursions at places far and near, the students usually collect many plants which can be identified form the book with the help of their teachers. Moreover, the students will beable to learn the vegetative and reproductive characters of the flowering, short ecological notes, vernacular names and currently accepted botantial names of the identified plants. It contains short descriptions of a total number of 835 flowering plants. The plants are arranged in 129 families following the Bentham and Hooker’s system of classification. The fioral formulae of all the families have been mentioned at proper places. The book will also be useful to foresters, ecologists and other persons interested in taxonomy.