The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India : Nelumbo: Vol. 56

Contents: 1. Studies on the subfamily apostasioidea (orchidaceae) in India/H.J. Chowdhery. 2. Asteraceae in the flora of Sind Valley Kashmir Himalaya, India/G.H. Hassan Dar and Bertil Nordenstam. 3. Angiosperm diversity of Sandy coast of Balasore district, Odisha, India/Rama Chandra Sahoo, Deenabandhu Sahu and Malaya K. Misra. 4. An enumeration to the plants of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar district of Gujarat, India/S.L. Meena. 5. Floral diversity of Bhavnagar District Gujarat State (India) – A checklist/S.L. Meena. 6. Nutritional evaluation of some edible underground plant parts used by the tribal people of South Odisha, India/Sibangini Misra and Malaya K. Misra. 7. Extended distribution of Codonopsis Tubulosa (Campanulaceae) in India/A A Mao and H.A. Barbhuiya. 8. Andrographis glandulosa (acanthaceae) from Southern India-its taxonomy, lectotypification and distribution/G. Gnanasekaran, A. Narayana Swamy and G.V.S. Murthy. 9. Melhania futteyporensis (malvaceae)-a new record for Southern India/P.S. Annamma, N. Venugopal and P. Venu. 10. Eulophia Zollingeri and Pelatantheria insectifera two new additions to the Orchid flora of Manipur/Y. Nanda, K. Chowlu, G. Akimpou and A. Nageswara Rao. 11. Three new distributional records of Orchids from Mizoram/Samiran Panday, Durgesh Verma, S.K. Singh and B.K. Sinha. 12. On a 17th century Herbarium specimen and an archive letter in cal/V.P. Prasad. 13. Cheilolejeunea Osumiensis (marchantiophyta: Lejeuneaceae)-An addition to the Indian Bryoflora from Eastern Himalaya/D K Singh, Shuvadeep Majumdar and Devendra Singh. 14. Pseudosymblepharis subduriuscula (pottiaceae)-New to India from the Western Ghats/A.E.D. Daniels and K.C. Kariyappa. 15. Plagiochila gymnoclada (marchantiophyta: plagiochilaceae) – New to Indian bryoflora from eastern Himalaya with a note on distribution of the sect. plagiochila in India/Siddhartha Singh Deo and D.K. Singh. 16. Two noteworthy species of cololejeunea (marchantiophyta: Lejeuneaceae) from Mizoram/S K Singh and Monalisa Dey. 17. Study of spore ornamentation of two mosses from West Bengal and Sikkim/Shewli Bhattacharya, Manojit Debnath and Samit Ray. 18. A New species of Johannesbaptistia from Jamtara Jharkhand, India/R K Gupta and S K Das. 19. New distributional record of three coccal green algae (Chlorococcales, Chlorophyceae) from the alpine lakes of eastern Himalayas, India/S K. Das, S.P Adhikary and L. Kovacik.  20. Algal diversity in the streams and waterfalls of eastern and North-Eastern region of India/s. Bhakta and S.P. Adhikary. 21. Borofutus Dhakanus (boletaceae)-An addition to Indian Mycobiota/Arvind Parihar, M.E. Hembrom and Kanad Das. 22. Obituary. 23. Book review. 24. Author’s index. 25. New species. 26. Instruction to contributors.