This detailed treatise is written for botanists, chemists and biologists as companion volume to "Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants" by Chopra, Nayar & Chopra, and covers the ten-year period 1970-79. Volume 1 (1960-69) was published during February 1991.
The format followed for Vol.2 is similar to that of Vol.l, i.e. the write-up on each plant also includes new type of data/information, viz. chemical structures of new compounds isolated and the biological work on pure constituents isolated from a plant.
The first part of Vol.2, like Vol.1, presents the logistics of the write-up in an 'Explanatory Note', which is followed by the description of 1684 plants in 725 pages. Finally, three indexes (108 pages) comprising local names, chemical constituents and biological activities have been provided.
The volume will be welcomed by all those working on medicinal plants/natural products who will appreciate that such a wealth of information has been assembled in a classified manner in a single volume. Volume 3, covering the ten-year period 1980-89 is under preparation.
This compendium has been designed as a companion volume to Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants by Chopra, Nayar & Chopra (hereinafter referred to as Glossary). All the plants have been listed in alphabetical order and reference to the Glossary has been given for those plants which are included therein; in the case of new plants, not listed in the Glossary, their local names and distribution have also been included, wherever known, in keeping with the pattern of the Glossary. The distributional range of such plants has been confined to the present political boundary of India. Bhutan and Nepal have also been included because these countries fall within the unbroken chain of the Himalayas and some of the Himalayan species occur in contiguous territories in India, Bhutan and Nepal. Certain plants, although not found in india, are included either because these were listed in the Glossary or arc sold in indigenous drug market in India.
The literature cited is on the basis of complete screening of Chemical Abstracts and Biological Abstracts and covers the ten-year period from 1970 to 1979. It has been aimed to make the compendium exhaustive by including research done anywhere in the world on the taxa foud in India, whether indigenous or introduced.
LITERATURE CITATION
The abbreviations of the reference citations are in accordance with the practice followed in Chemical Abstracts and Serial Sources for the Biosis Data Base, Volume 1985. Since many journals, especially those published in Latin American, African and South cast Asian countries, are not available in most Indian libraries and some journals have stopped publication or have changed their names, cross reference to Chemical Abstracts have been given in such cases.
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