A very large number of diverse kinds of sources of information have been consulted by us during the course of our work. As it is not possible to list every one of them here, the more important ones are outlined below. All other relevant references are cited at appropriate places in this volume and the species profiles and databases.

BOOKS AND VOLUMES

The following books and volumes, some on taxonomy, have been the major reference sources. Additional contextual references are cited at the appropriate places.

Acharya, Y.T. 1941. Charaka samhita. Commentary of Chakrapani. Nirnayasagar Press, Bombay.

Aggarwal, V.S. and Ghosh, B. 1985. Drug plants of India (Root drugs). Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.

Ambasta, S.P. (ed.) 1986. The useful plants of India. CSIR, New Delhi.

Ambasta, S.P. (ed.) 1988. Medicinal plants. Bibliography of CSIR contributions. (1950-1987). CSIR, New Delhi.

Anonymous. 1948—56. The wealth of India. CSIR, New Delhi.

Anonymous. 1976. Medicinal plants of India. Vol. I. ICMR, New Delhi.

Anonymous. 1978. The Ayurvedic formulary of India. Part I. Government of India, New Delhi.

Ashwatha Narayan, L. 1960. Dravya vignana sashstra. Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya, Mysore.

Bailey, L.H. 1949. Manual of cultivated plants. The Macmillan Company, New York.

Boericke, W. 1991. Pocket manual of Homoeopathic materia medica. Jain Publishers, New Delhi.

Chopra, R.N., Chopra, I.C., Handa, K.L.C. and Kapur, L.D. 1958 (1994). Chopra’s indigenous drugs of India. 2nd ed. Academic Publishers, Calcutta.

Chopra, R.N., Nayar, S.L. and Chopra, I.C. 1956. Glossary of Indian medicinal plants. CSIR, New Delhi.

Chopra, R.N., Nayar, S.L. and Chopra, I.C. 1969. Supplement to the glossary of Indian medicinal plants.

Chunekar, K.C. (commentary), and Pandey, G.S. (ed.) 1984. Bhavaprakasha nighantu. (Indian materia medica). Sri Bhavamisra. Chaukambha Bharati Academy, Vaaranasi.

Clayton, L.T. (ed.) 1989. Taber’s cyclopedic medical dictionary. Davis Company, Philadelphia.

Cooke, T. 1901-1906. The flora of the Presidency of Bombay. 3 vols. BSI, Calcutta.

Daljithsimha, K. 1974. Unani dravyagunadarsha. Ayurvedic and Tibbi Academy, Lucknow.

Dymock, W., Warden, C.J. and Hooper, D. 1890. Pharmacographica Indica. vols. I to III. BSMP Singh, Dehradun.

Gamble, J.S. 1916-1935. The flora of the Presidency of Madras. 3 vols. BSI, Calcutta.

Gibbs, D.R. 1974. Chemotaxonomy of flowering plants. 4 vols. McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal.

Gopalan, C., Ramasastri, B.V. and Balasubramanian, S.C. 1985. Nutritive value of Indian foods. National Institute of Nutrition, ICMR, Hyderabad.

Jagga Rao, Y., Narasimha Rao, Y., Seetharamaiah, Y. and Krishna Murthy, Y. 1933. Vastugunadeepika. (in Telugu). ed. 6 (ed. 1, 1883). Sri Rama Mudraksharasala, Rajahmundry.

Jain, S.K. 1991. Dictionary of Indian folk medicine and ethnobotany. Deep Publications, New Delhi.

Kapoor, S.L. and Mitra, R. 1979. Herbal drugs in Indian pharmaceutical industry. NBRI, Lucknow.

Keshava Murthy, K.R. and Yoganarasimhan, S.N. 1990. Flora of Coorg (Kodagu), Karnataka, India. Vimsat Publishers, Bangalore.

Keys, J.D. 1976. Chinese herbs. Charles E. Tuttle & Co., Tokyo.

Kirtikar, K.R. and Basu, B.D. 1933. Indian madicinal plants. II ed. Allahabad.

Lakshmi Kumari, M. (ed.). 1987. Medicinal herbs in Indian life. Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari, India.

Leavitt, D. 1974. Chinese herbal medicine. DHEW Publishers, USA.