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CONTENTS

EDITORIAL : Guest Editor i

REVIEW Samit Roy : Endosymbiotic theory and algal phylogeny 1

FULL LENGTH ARTICLES Suparna Pal : Alleviation of chromium induced toxicity in Cicer arietinum L. seedling by calcium 18 Kajal Singh, Snehalata Majumdar, Rita Kundu : Amelioration of cadmium - induced stress by application of sulphur salt in Oryza sativa cv Swarna seedlings 30 Moumita Das Das, Arabinda Pramanik, Debabrata Maity : Notes relating to the Indian Memecylaceae DC.: new combinations and new synonyms 40 Soma Dutta Das, Ram Kumar Bhakat and Pijush Kanti Das : Studies on ethno medicinal plants of Gopiballavpur-2 block of Jhargram district, West Bengal, India 47 Argha Sarkar : Use of Non-Pollen Palynomorphs from Lower Bengal basin, India, for understanding the Holocene deltaic sediment deposition 63 Amarjeet Kaur , Bijoya Karmakar, Moumita Biswas Sarkar : Enumerating aeromycota in a suburban area of West Bengal, with reference to meteorological factors and health impact 80 Samrat Goswami, Milan Karmakar and Biswajit Roy : Assessment of foliar and floral micromorphology, pollen morphology and other reproductive traits of different colour-forms of Caesalpinia pulcherrima (L.) Sw. 91 Alisha Thapa, Rituparna Saha, Juna Tamang, Diptosh Das, Anirban Roy and Krishnendu Acharya : Contribution to the macromycetes of West Bengal, India: 40–50 105 Pamela Saha, Md. Nehal Aziz and Debabrata Maity : Addition of two species of Sematophyllaceae to the moss flora of West Bengal 119

SHORT COMMUNICATION Manoranjan Paramanik, Asit Mahato and Subrata Raha : Orchids in Purulia District, West Bengal 124 D. Haldar and S. Bandyopadhyay : Two dematiaceous hyphomycetes from West Bengal, India 132

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