Pleione ISSN 0973-9467 Vol 4, No. 1. 2010 Contents Articles Sugandhmantri [Homalomena aromatica Schott]: a potential aromatic and medicinal of North East ...... T. U. Khan, D. K. Hore and S. K. Borthakur ...... 1 Life-form analysis of aquatic macrophytes in community ponds of Imphal Valley, Manipur, India ...... L. Sanjoy Meitei, Asha Gupta and A. K. Kandya ...... 4 Flora of NERIST campus, , India: a checklist along with their common uses . .... Bhabajit Doley, P. R. Gajurel, P. Rethy, B. Singh and Rubul Buragohain ...... 8 Status of Floristic study in Barak Valley in , India: need for future research ...... M. K. Baruah, G. Chakraborty and M. Dutta Choudhury ...... 17 A census of Piper L. (Piperaceae) in Terai, Duars and the hills of Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalayas ...... A. P. Das, A. K. Samanta and Kishor Biswas ...... 33 A contribution to the study of Caprifoliaceae Jussieu in West Bengal and Sikkim, India ...... Joydeep Acharya, Jayashree Acharya and Ambarish Mukherjee ...... 42 Bamboo Flora of Garo Hills in Meghalaya, India ..... Tika Pd. Sharma and S. K. Borthakur ...... 48 Notes on Rhododendron vaccinioides Hooker f. (Ericaceae) in India: insights from leaf and stem anatomy, seed and pollen morphology ...... S. Panda2 and A. Chowdhury ...... 54 An ethnomedicobotanical study on the Lepchas in North Sikkim .... Neelu Tamang and Debnath Palit.... 63 Screening the efficacy of some East Himalayan medicinal on ethanol induced gastric ulcer in albino rats P. K. Mitra, P. Mitra, A. P. Das, C. Ghosh, A. Sarkar and D. Chowdhury ...... 69 Status Report on Phoenix rupicola T. Anderson (Arecaceae) – an endemic and threatened wild Palm in Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary, East Kameng (Eastern Himalayas), India ...... Hui Tag, T. Mingki, Oyi Dai, P. Kalita, G. Nimachow and A.K. Das ...... 76 Diversity of climbing plants in the Koch Bihar district of West Bengal, India ...... S. Bandyopadhyay and Sobhan Kr. Mukherjee ...... 82 Preliminary report on the Medicinal Plants from three MPCAsin Terai and Duars of West Bengal, India...... A.P. Das, C. Ghosh, A. Sarker, R. Biswas, K. Biswas, D. Choudhury, A. Lama, S. Moktan and A. Choudhury ...... 90 .. retusa (Linnaeus) Blume () in Arunachal Pradesh ...... Krishna Chowlu and A. K. Das ...... 102 Traditional knowledge of medicinal plants used by Chakma trbal community of Tripura, India ...... Mandadakranta Roy, Bobita Chakma, B.K. Datta and A.K. Gupta ...... 105 Bamboo Diversity in Sipahijala Wildlife Sanctuary, Tripura, India ...... Debashree Lodh, Abhijit Sarkar, Koushik Majumdar, B. K. Datta and A K Gupta ...... 113 Occurrence of East Himalayan floral elements in the Eastern Ghats of : III. Sedges ...... Ravi Prasad Rao, B., D. Veeranjaneyulu P. Priyadarsini, M.V. Suresh Babu ...... 118 Orchid flora of Dibru –Saikhowa National Park and Biosphere Reserve, Assam, India ...... Khyanjeet Gogoi, R.L. Borah, G. C. Sharma ...... 124 Economic potential of angiospermic flora of Barpeta District of Assam, India ...... K. K. Sarmah and S. K. Borthakur ...... 135 New record of some sedges from Southern Assam ..... Himani Pal and M. Dutta Choudhury ...... 143 Identity of Costus L. and comment on the identity of Costus speciosus (J. Koenig) Smith in India ...... Suchandra Dutta ...... 148 New Taxon Acampe papillosa (Lindley) Lindley var. flava Das et al (var. nov.) from the Duars of West Bengal, India ...... A. P. Das, Tapan Kumar Katham and Suman Nirola ...... 155 Reports Trachelospermum assamense R.E. Woodson (Apocynaceae): A new record for Arunachal Pradesh, India ...... Anant Kumar and T. K. Paul ...... 158 Dioscorea brandisii Prain et Burkill (Dioscoreaceae) – a new record for India ...... Bhaskar Saikia, Hui Tag and A. K. Das ...... 160 Published by: East Himalayan Society for Spermatophyte Department of Botany, North Bengal University, Siliguri, 734013, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India Printed by: Sanjay Debnath, at Sanjay’s Impression, S.P. Mukherjee Rd., Kadamtala, 734011, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India