A field survey was conducted in the Shilli Conservation Reserve, Solan, Himachal Pradesh to collect and document the medicinally important plant species. Further intensive surveys were conducted in the villages around the conservation reserve to collect the information on their traditional medicinal uses by the local inhabitants. The paper enumerates the traditional medicinal uses of 45 plant species belonging to 33 families along with their botanical names, local names, habit and part used for the treatment of various ailments by the local communities around the Shilli Conservation Reserve in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh.

The commercially important tree gum exudates produced in India are gum Arabic, gum ghatti and gum karaya or Indian gum tragacanth. These gums, available in the market, are often adulterated by many other natural gums which may be inferior in quality. Therefore, identification of these gums is very essential to minimize the adulteration by comparing their physical and chemical properties. The study shows that among these properties, solubility, viscosity and colour can be used along with confirmatory chemical tests for differentiating commercial gums. The paper highlights the details of physical properties of the gums and chemical tests to differentiate between these gums.

The study pertains to data collected from randomly selected 67 lac growers of 10 villages in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh for the year 2020-2021. The study indicates that more than 80% lac growers in Mandla district are small, semi medium and medium farmers. Majority of farmers (34.32%) belong to middle age group followed by young age group (31.34%). The study revealed that 59.7% lac growers have family members up to 5-7 and educated up to middle school level (40.3%). The resources endowment in terms of the availability of host trees for lac cultivation varies from >25 to <200 trees. In terms of production maximum lac growers (38.81%) average production of 70.91 kg followed by 16.42% had average production 124.28 kg, 16.42% had 38.18 kg average production. Amongst the different source of income of lac growers, Agriculture crop ranked 1^st (50.62%) followed by Lac crop (22.9%). Income of selected farmers from lac crop in the study 31.34% farmers earn between Rs. 10,001-20,000 followed by 23.88% farmers between 5001 to 10000 and 23.88% farmers get upto 5000, 10.45% farmers earn more than 40001, 7.46% earn Rs 20001-30000 and only 2.99% farmers get between Rs. 30,000-40,000 annually from lac production. In term of income sharing the maximum number of the farmers (32.84%)  contributed 10-20%  while only 11.94% farmers contributed more than 40% by lac. Implications of the present study will be helpful in strengthening the socio-economic condition of lac growers and lac marketing scenario of Madhya Pradesh.

The present paper deals with 112 ethnomedicinal plants used for the treatment of cold cough and fever by major tribal groups and many non-tribal communities of Odisha. These ethnomedicinal uses were compared and cross-checked with the data mentioned in well-known standard Indian ethnomedicinal as well as medicinal literatures and found that most of the medicinal uses of the referred 83 plants have been reported earlier also. 29 plants are being reported here for the first time for the treatment of these diseases. These plant species are arranged in alphabetical order followed by family in bracket, local name(s) along with ethnomedicinal uses and cross check report with well recognized standard Indian literature.

The paper deals with 26 species of plants used by the tribes of Khammam district, Andhra Pradesh, for curing dandruff, lice, hair fall, greying. Leaf is used in 10 practices followed by seed (6), fruit  (4), and others. 19 practices were found to be less known.

The paper contains information on 34 species of plants used by the Bagata tribe of Andhra Pradesh for curing piles. Leaf is used in 8 practices followed by root (6). Canna  edulis and 12 practices were found to be new.

Price analysis and trend of Phyllanthus emblica was studied in view of its increasing price in the last few years. Time series data (2015-2020) of different market national, state and district level were taken and linear regression analysis was done. Price trend of aonla revealed a sharply increasing trend in the years 2017 and 2018 indicating scarcity of aonla in all markets with high demand, thereafter the price stabilised. All markets were integrated as revealed by similar price movements in markets. The price movement did not show any cyclical trend.

The  species  Balanophora  fungosa  J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. (Balanophoraceae)  collected  for  the  first time  from  Nagaland  state  is  an  addition  to  the  flora  of  Nagaland. Detailed  descriptions  and  distribution  of  the  species  along  with  colour  photograph  has  been  provided  for  its  easy  identification.

The present investigation was carried out to explore the distribution and conservation of the medicinal tree species in Madhya Pradesh. The paper deals with the 124 tree species of probable medicinal potential, belonging to 95 genera and 45 families from Madhya Pradesh.