Kingdom: Plantae

DICOTYLEDONSKingdom: Plantae Sub kingdom: Phanerogams Division: Angiospermae Class: DicotyledonaeFamily: Rananculaceae Life form: Sffrutescent herb 1. Aconitum bisma (Buch.-Ham.) Distribution:Darjiling,Koch Bihar. Rap. Life Form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 10. Anemone obtusiloba D. Don Life Form: Herb 2. Aconitum elwesii Stapf Distribution:Darjiling Life Form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 11. Anemone rivularis Buch.- Ham. ex DC. Life form: Sffrutescent herb 3. Aconitum ferox Wall. ex Seringe Distribution:Darjiling,Koch Bihar. Life Form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 12. Anemone vitifolia Buch.-Ham ex DC. Life form: Sffrutescent herb Distribution:Darjiling,Koch Bihar. 4. Aconitum heterophylloides (Bruhl) Stapf Life Form: Herb 13. Calthodes palmata Hook. f. & Distribution:Darjiling Thoms Life Form: Herb 5. Aconitum laciniatum (Bruhl.) Stapf Distribution:Darjiling Life Form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 14. Caltha palustris L. Life Form: Herb 6. Aconitum novoluridum Munz Distribution:Darjiling Life Form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 15. C. scaposa Hook.f. & Thoms Life Form: Herb 7. A. spicatum (Bruhl) Stapf Distribution:Darjiling Life Form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 16. Cimicifuga foetida L. Life Form: Herb 8. Anemone griffithii Hook.f. & Distribution:Darjiling Thoms. Life Form: Herb 17. Clematis acuminata DC. subsp. Distribution:Darjiling sikkimensis (Hook. f. & Thomes)Bruhl Life Form: Climber 9. Anemone japonica Sieb & Zucc. Distribution:Darjiling189 18. Clematis andersonii (C. B. Clarke 27. Clematis tongluensis (Bruhl) ex Ktze) Eichler Tamura Life Form: Climber Life Form: Climber Distribution:Darjiling Distribution:Darjiling19. Clematis cadmia Buch.- Ham. ex 28. Delphinium caeruleum Jacq. ex Hook. f. & Thoms. Cam Life Form: Climber Life Form: Herb Distribution: Jalpaiguri Distribution:Darjiling20. Clematis connata DC. 29. Delphinium glaciale Hook. f. & Life Form: Climber Thoms. Distribution:Darjiling Life Form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 21. Clematis gouriana Roxb. ex DC. Life form: Climbing shrub 30. Delphinium pyramidale Royle Habitat: Rare on road side thickets & waste Life Form: Herb lands Distribution:Darjiling Distribution:Medinipur,Darjiling,Nadia,Birb hum,Barddhaman,Maldah,Haora,Murshidab ad,Jalpaiguri 31. Delphinium viscosum Hook. f. & Koch Bihar,Kolkata,South 24 Pgs. Thoms. (Bhangankhali, Birati),Hugli. Life Form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 22. Clematis buchananiana DC. Common name: Chhagalbati 32. Dichocarpum adiantifolium (Hook. Life form: Shruby climber f. & Thoms.) Wang & Hsiaw Distribution:Darjiling. Life Form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 23. Clematis grewiaeflora DC. Life Form: Climber 33. Halerpestes tricuspis Distribution:Darjiling (Maxim.)Hand-Mazz. Life Form: Herb 24. Clematis montana Buch. Ham.ex Distribution:Darjiling DC. var praecox O.Kuntze Life Form: Climber 34. Isopyrum adiantifolium Hook.f. & Distribution:Darjiling Thoms. Life form:Geophyte Distribution:Darjiling. 25. Clematis napaulensis DC. Life Form: Climber Distribution:Darjiling 35. Narvelia zeylanica (L.) DC. Life form: Geophyte Habitat: Common in hedges & thickets or in 26. Clematis smilacifolia Wall. scrub jungles Life Form: Climber Distribution:Haora,Barddhaman,Darjiling,H Distribution:Darjiling ugli,South 24 Pgs.(Basirhat),Kolkata.190 45. Rananculus repens L. 36. Nigella sativa L. Life form: Perennial herb Common name: Kalojira Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Cultivated as a winter crop of spice, 46. Tetracera sarmentosa (L.) Vahl occasionally as an escape subsp. andamanica (Hoogl.) Hoogl. Distribution:Kolkata,South 24 Pgs. Life form: Shrubs & Lianas (Subuddhipur),Nadia,Hugli,Haora. Distribution:Darjiling37. Oxygraphis endlicheri (Walp.) Bennet & Chandr Life Form: Herb 47. Thalictrum chelidonii DC. Distribution:Darjiling Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 38. Ranunculus adoxifolius Hand.-Mazz. Life Form: Prostrate herb 48. Thalictrum cultratum Wall. Distribution:Darjiling Life form: Tall herb Distribution:Darjiling 39. Ranunculus brotherusi Freyn. Life Form: Herb 49. Thalictrum foliosum DC. Distribution:Darjiling Life form: Suffrutescent herb Distribution:Darjiling. 40. Ranunculus ficarifolius Levt. & Vanist 50. Thalictrum javanicum Blume Life Form: Herb Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling Distribution:Darjiling41. Ranunculus sardous Crantz. 51. Thalictrum minus L. Life Form: Herb Life form: Herb Distribution: Haora Distribution:Darjiling42. Rananculus sceleratus L. 52. Thalictrum reniforme Wall. Common name:Polica Life form: Herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling Habitat: Common on marshy places/along canal sides Distribution:Nadia,Kolkata,South 24 Pgs. 53. Thalictrum rostellatum Hook. f. & (Kumarzol),Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Murs Thoms hidabad, Maldah,Koch Bihar. Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 43. Rananculus diffusus DC. Life form: Annual herb 54. Thalictrum saniculaeformae DC. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 44. Rananculus laetus Wall. ex Royle Life form: Perennial herb 55. Thalictrum virgatum Hook. f. & Distribution:Darjiling. Thoms. Life form: Herb191 Distribution:Darjiling 63. Magnolia hodgsonii (Hook.f.& Thoms.) Keng Family: Dilleniaceae Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling 56. Dillenia aurea Smith Common Name: Chamaggai ( Beng.) 64. Magnolia obovata Thunb. Life Form: Tree Life form: Shrub Distribution:Bankura, Distribution:Darjiling. Medinipur,Puruliya 65. Magnolia grandiflora L. 57. Dillenia indica L. Common name: Champa Common name: Chalta Life form: Evergreen tree Life form: Medium sized tree Habitat: Not common; found in gardens Habitat: Commonly planted in old orchards, Distribution:South 24 Pgs. vill. Surroundings, road side scrub jungles (Barrackpore),Kolkata,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri, Distribution:Hugli,Medinipur,Kolkata, 24 Koch Bihar. Parganas ( S) (Duttapukur, Baruipur),Maldah, Nadia, Haora, 66. Magnolia pterocarpa Roxb. Jalpaiguri,Koch Life form: Tree Bihar,Murshidabad,Barddhaman . Distribution:Darjiling 58. Dillenia pentagyna Roxb. Common Name: Karkotta (Beng.) 67. Michelia cathcartii Hook. f. & Life Form: Tree Thoms. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling, Jalpaiguri, Distribution:Darjiling Bankura, Birbhum, Puruliya 68. Michelia champaca L. Family: Magnoliaceae Common name: Champa Life form: Tree Habitat: Frequently planted as ornamental 59. Alcimandra cathcartii (Hook. f. & tree Thoms.) Dandy Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Kolkata, 24 Distribution:Darjiling. Parganas (S) ( Diamond Harbour),Koch Bihar,Nadia,Maldah. 60. Liriodendron tulipifera L. Life form: Tree 69. Michelia doltsopa Buch.-Ham. ex DC. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. 61. Magnolia campbelii Hook.f. & Thoms. Life form: Tree 70. Michelia kisopa Buch.-Ham. ex DC. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling 62. Magnolia globosa Hook. f. & Thoms. 71. Michelia velutina DC. Life form: Tree Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling Distribution:Darjiling.192 Distribution : Jalpaiguri Family: Annonaceae 78. Desmos chinensis var. pubescens 72. Annona reticulata L. Hook.f. & Thoms. Common name: Nona Life Form: Shrub Life form: Tree Distribution : Jalpaiguri Habitat: Cultivated in old orchard, often found as an escape in dry waste lands 79. Desmos desmosus (Roxb.) Safford Distribution:Bankura,Jalpaiguri,Puruliya, 24 Life Form: Woody Climber Parganas (S) (Tetulia, Bamanea),, Distribution : Jalpaiguri Dinajpur,Birbhum, Koch Bihar, Medinipur, Kolkata, Barddhaman, Hugli, Murshidabad, Haora,Nadia,Maldah. 80. Fissistigma bicolor (Roxb.) Mor Life form: Woody climber Distribution:Jalpaiguri 73. Annona squamosa L. ( 1753 ). Common name: Ata Life form: Tree 81. Goniothalamus sesquipedalis Habitat: Occasionally planted in old (Wall.) Hook. f. & Thoms. orchards or Village surroundings. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Koch Distribution:Jalpaiguri Bihar,Haora,Barddhaman,Kolkata,Medinipu r, Maldah,Murshidabad,24 Parganas (N) 82. Miliusa globosa (DC.) Panigrahi & (Barasat, Bongan),Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Hugli. S.C. Mishra Life form: Tree 74. Artabotrys hexapetalus ( L. f. ) Distribution: Jalpaiguri Bhandari Common name: Kathali Champa/ Kat 83. Miliusa indica Leschen. ex DC. Champa Life form: Shrub Life form: Shrub Distribution: Kolkata Habitat: Commonly planted as an ornamental plant 84. Miliusa longiflora ( Hook. f. & Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) Thoms.) Fivet & Gagnep. (Barrackpore),Maldah,Haora,Jalpaiguri,Kol Life form: Tree kata,Medinipur,Nadia . Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri 75. Cananga odorata Hook. f. & Thoms. Common name: Alangilang 85. Miliua macrocarpa Hook.f. & Life form: Tall tree Habitat: Planted as avenue tree or in gardens Thoms. Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) (Ichhapur). Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling 76. Desmos chinensis Lour. var. 86. Miliusa velutina (Dunal) Hook. f. & chinensis Thoms. Life form: Sarmentose shrub Life form: Tree Distribution: Jalpaiguri Distribution: Malda, Medinipur, Jalpaiguri, Puruliya, Dinajpur 77. Desmos chinensis var. laevigata (Hook. & Thoms.) Mitra 87. Miliusa tomentosa ( Roxb. ) Life Form: Cultivated Shrub193 Sinchair Distribution: Darjiling Common name: Gandhapalasa Life form: Medium sized tree 94. Cissampelos pareira L. var. hirsuta Habitat: Common in hedges & thickets & (Buch. & Ham.) also planted along roads Common name: Akanadi/ Ekleja Distribution: 24 Parganas( N)(Joynagar). Life form:Climbing shrub Habitat:Very common on bushes, hedges & 88. Polyalthia cerasoides (Roxb.) Bedd. waste lands Common name: Kudumi Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Magrahat, Life form: Medium tree Surjyapur). Habitat: Occasionally in the vi. Shrubberies, often planted as hedge plant 95. Cocculus hirsutus (L.) Diels Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Brace Life Form : Sub woody climber Bridge),Nadia,Haora,Koch Bihar ,Dinajpur. Distribution: Hugli, Haora, Murshidabad 89. Polyalthia longifolia ( Sonn. ) Thw. Common name: Debdaru 96. Cyclea bicristata (Griff.) Diels Life form: Tall tree Life form: Shruby climber Habitat: Mostly planted as avenue tree, Distribution:Darjiling. sometimes planted in the hedges or gardens Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Birbhum,Medinipur, 24 Parganas (S) ( Gobardanga, 97. Parabaena sagittata Miers ex Fultala),Koch Bihar. Hook.f. & Thoms. Life Form : Climber 90. Polyalthia simiarum (Hook. f. & Distribution: Darjiling Thoms.) Life Form: Tree 98. Stephania glabra (Roxb.) Miers Distribution : Jalpaiguri, Darjiling Life Form : Climber Distribution: Darjiling 91. Polyalthia suberosa ( Roxb. ) Thw. Common name: Barchali 99. Stephania japonica ( Thunb. ) Miers Life form: Small to medium sized tree. var. discolor Habitat: Wild in vill. Shrubberies & Common name: Nimusha/ Nimukha waste lands, in sides of roads Life form: Climbing shrub Distribution:South 24 Pgs. (Brace Bridge, Habitat: Very common on the dry waste Baruipur). lands, thickets, hedges & railway tracts, climbing onbushes. 92. Uvaria hamiltonii Hook. f. ex & Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Bhangan Thoms. Khali, Ramnagar),Kolkata,Medinipur,Hugli. Life Form: Scandent Shrub Distribution : Darjiling 100. Stephania elegans Hook. f. & Thoms. Life form: Climber with annual stem Family: Menispermaceae Distribution:Darjiling.101. Tiliacora acuminata ( Lam. ) Hook.f. & 93. Aspidocarya uvifera Hook.f. & Thoms. Thoms. Life form: Climbing shrub Life Form : Climber Habitat: Fairly common on hedges, thickets 194 & shrubberies, climbing on Ficus bengalensis & Mangifera indica. 107. Nymphaea rubra Roxb. ex Andrews Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Maldah,Mursh Life Form :aquatic herb idabad,Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas (S) Distribution: Bengal Plains ( Beliachandi, Haroa). 108. Euryale ferox Salisb. 102. Tinospora cordifolia ( Willd. ) Miers Life Form :Annual or perennial herb Common name: Gulancha Distribution: 24 Parganas ( D. Prain, 1903 ) Life form: Large climbing shrub Habitat: Very common in vill. Thickets, hedges, waste lands & railway tracts, Family: Papaveraceae climbing on the way side tree. Distribution:South 24 Pgs. (Ghoramara, 109. Argemone mexicana L. Santoshpur) ,Dinajpur,Koch Bihar, Puruliya, Common name: Sialkanta Kolkata, Haora, Life form: Prickly, annual herb Barddhaman,Maldah,Birbhum, Habitat: Common weed on road side Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Bankura, Murshidabad and dry waste lands, railway tracts, hedges, Nadia. thickets, agricult. Fields. Distribution:Hugli, 103. Tinospora sinensis (Lour.) Merr. Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Nadia,Birbhum,Med Life Form : Climber inipur,Murshidabad,Koch Bihar, Maldah, Haora, 24 Parganas (S)( Canning, Distribution: Darjiling Godkhali),Kolkata,Darjiling. Family: Nymphaeaceae 110. Argemone ochroleuca Sweet Life Forms: Herb Distribution: Dinajpur 104. Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. Common name: Padma/ Kamal Eomecon chionantha Hance Life form: Aquatic herb with floating 111. leaves Life form: Geophyte Habitat: Abundant in ponds & jheels Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Maldah,Hugli, 24 Parganas (S) (Garia),Puruliya,Medinipur,Barddhaman,Jal 112. Meconpsis lyrata (Cummins & paiguri,Nadia, Birbhum Prain ex Prain) Fedde ,Dinajpur,Haora,Murshidabad,Koch Bihar. Life Form:Herb Distribution:Darjiling 105. Nymphaea nouchali Burm. f. Common name: Sapla 113. M. napaulensis DC. Life form: Large aquatic herb Life Form:Herb Habitat: Very common on less used Distribution:Darjiling ponds, jheels, beels, road side canals & also in paddyfields during monsoon 114. M. paniculata (D. Don) Prain Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Taldi, Life Form:Herb Harinbari). Distribution:Darjiling106. Nymphaea pubescens Willd. 115. M. villosa (Hook.f. ex Hook.f.) G. Life Form :aquatic herb Tayl. Distribution: Bengal Plains195 Life Form:Herb 124. Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. & Coss. Distribution:Darjiling Common name: Rai Sarisha Life form: Ann. Herb Family: Fumariaceae Habitat: Winter crop in high & low lands, also as an escape in the dry waste lands, road sides or in the railway tracts. 116. Corydalis geraniifolia Hook.f. & Distribution:Jalpaiguri 24 Parganas (S) Thoms. (Madarhat, Benipur), Murshidabad, Maldah, Life Form:Herb Kolkata, Dinajpur, Bankura, Distribution:Darjiling Nadia,Hugli,Darjiling,Medinipur,Koch Bihar. 117. Corydalis juncea Wall. Life Form:Herb 125. Brassica napus L. var. dichotoma Prain Distribution:Darjiling Common name: Sarisha Life form: Ann. Herb 118. Corydalis leptocarpa Hook. Habitat: Mainly cultivated in winter Life form: Annual herb season, also seen in waste lands & garden Distribution:Darjiling. edges. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Garia, 119. Corydalis pseudolongipes Liden Subhasgram),Jalpaiguri,Dinajpur,Murshidab ad,Hugli, Nadia, Barddhaman,Koch Bihar. Life Form:Herb Distribution:Darjiling 126. Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medikus Common name: Shepherd's purse 120. Dicentra paucinervia K.R. Stern Life form: Ann. Herb Life form: Climber Habitat: Very common in the Distribution:Darjiling. cultivated fields, sometimes in waste lands Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) 121. Dicentra scandens (D. Don) Walp. (Belghoria),Kolkata,Koch Life form: Climber Bihar,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Medinipur. Distribution:Darjiling. 127. Cardamine griffithii Hook.f. & 122. Dicentra ventii Khanh Thoms. Life Form:Herb Life Form:Herb Distribution:Darjiling Distribution:Darjiling123. Fumaria indica (Haursk.) Pugsley 128. Cardamine impatiens L. Common name: Ban Salpa Life form: Annual herb Life form: Diffuse annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Common as a weed in cultivated fields & on the sandy soil in Cardamine flexuosa Withering. winter season 129. Distribution:Murshidabad,Hugli,Darjiling,H Life form: Annual herb aora,Nadia, 24 Parganas (S) Distribution:Darjiling, 24 Pgs (Subuddipur) (Mazilpur/Joynagar). 130. Cardamine macrophylla Willd. Family: Brassicaceae ( nom. alt.) Life Form:Herb Distribution:Darjiling.196 Life form: Ann. Herb 131. Cochlearia cochearioides ( Roth ) Habitat: Field weed, in waste lands, old walls Santapau & Mahesh. Distribution: 24 Parganas (Gobindapur). Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Damp places & dry ditches Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Santoshpur). 140. Rorippa islandica ( Oeder ) Borbas Life form: Annual or biennial 132. Coronopus didymus (L.) Sm. Habitat: Rare field weed in the rabi crop fields Life form: Annual herb Distribution: 24 Parganas Habitat: Scanty in occurance, waste lands, ( Kadampur/Nabagram). road sides & river sides, garden weed, river banks Distribution:Darjiling, 24 Parganas (N) 141. Rorippa dubia (Pers.) Hara (Bhebe/Basirhat). Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling . 133. Draba gracillima Hook. f. & Thoms. Life Form:Herb 142. Rorippa montana (Wall. ex Hook. f. Distribution:Darjiling & T. Anders.) Small Life form: Herb 134. Eruca sativa Mill. Distribution:Darjiling . Life form:Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 143. Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum (L.) Hayek Life form: Perennial herb 135. Lepidium sativum L. Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling . 144. Brassica nigra (L.) Koch. 136. Lepidium virginicum L. Common name: Kalo sarisha Life form: Annual herb Distribution: 24 Parganas. Distribution:Darjiling . 145. Brassica campestris 137. Raphanus sativus L. Common name: Sarisha Common name: Mula Life form: Life form: Ann/biennial herb Distribution: 24 Parganas. Habitat:Cultivated In agricultural fields Distribution: 24 Parganas (Garia, Budge 146. Brassica oleracea L.var. botrytis L. Budge). Common name: Kapi Distribution: 24 Parganas. 138. Rorippa indica (L.) Hiern Common name: Raisarisha 147. Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata L. Life form: Ann. Herb Common name: Bhandha kapi Habitat: Rarely found in shady & waste Distribution: 24 Parganas. places Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Haroa, Bhebe Choumatha). 148. Brassica rapa Life form: Distribution: 24 Parganas. 139. Rorippa benghalensis ( DC.) Hara197 157. Crateva adamsonii DC. subsp. odora Family: Capparidaceae (Buch.-Ham.) Jacobs Life Form: Small tree 149. Capparis acutifolia Sweet subsp. Distribution:Bankura viminea Jacobs Life form: Spiny shrub 158. Crateva religiosa Forst.f. Distribution: Jalpaiguri . Life Form: Small tree Distribution:Jalpaiguri 150. Capparis brevispina DC. Life form: Spiny shrub 159. Crateva roxburghii R. Br Distribution: Haora . Common name: Barun Life form: Deciduous tree 151. Capparis multiflora Hook. f. & Habitat: River bank hedges in the Thoms. Sunderban areas Distribution: 24 Parganas (Bakkhali). Life Form: Shrub Distribution: Jalpaiguri 160. Maerua apetala (Roth) Jacobs 152. Capparis olacifolia Hook. f. & Life Form : small tree Distribution : Haora Thoms. Life Form: Twining shrub Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri 161. Maerua oblongifolia (Forssk.) A. Rich. Life Form : Climbing shrub Distribution : Haora 153. Capparis sikkimensis Kurz Life Form: Climbing shrub Family: Cleomaceae Distribution: Jalpaiguri154. Capparis sepiaria L. 162. Cleome gynandra L. Common name: Sada Hurhuria Common name: Kalia kara Life form: Twining herb Life form: Herb Habitat: Rarely found on the waste Habitat: Very comm. In hedges, lands & railway tracts thickets & scrub jungles Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Baruipur). Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Dighirpar/ Canning, Santoshpur). 163. Cleome monophylla L. Life Form : herb 155. Capaaris tenera Dalz. Distribution : Throughout West Bengal Life Form: Climbing shrub Distribution:Jalpaiguri 164. Cleome rutidosperma DC. Life Form :Herb 156. Capparis zeylanica L. Distribution : Haora, 24 Pgs. Common name: Kalo kara Life form: Rambling shrub Habitat: Comm. On waste lands, 165. Cleome speciosa Raf. road sides hedges & thickets Life Form : Herb Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Dhanyakuria, Distribution : Haora Kadampur). 166. Cleome viscosa L.198 Common name: Halde Hurhuria 175. Viola hookeri Thoms. Life form: Aromatic annual Herb Life form: Perennial herb Habitat: Very common throughout Distribution:Darjiling . lower Ganga delta, railway tracts, waste landsetc. Distribution:24 Pgs.(S) ( Sarberia). 176. Viola inconspicus Blume. Life Form : Herb Distribution : Darjiling Family: Violaceae 177. Viola paravaginata Hare 167. Hybanthus enneapermus (L.) F.v. Life Form : Herb Muell. Distribution : Darjiling , Jalpaiguri Common name: Nunbora Life form: Under shrub Habitat: Very common in open lands 178. Viola pilosa Blume after rain Life form: Perennial herb Distribution: Haora, 24 Pgs. (N) Distribution:Darjiling . (Champahati, Belghoria). 179. Viola placida W. Beck. 168. Viola betonicifolia J. E. Sm. Life Form : Herb Life Form : Herb Distribution : Darjiling Distribution : Darjiling , Jalpaiguri 180. Viola sikkimensis W.Back. 169. Viola biflora L. Life form: Perennial herb Life Form : Herb Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution : Darjiling 181. Viola thomsonii Oudem. 170. Viola bulbosa Maxim. subsp. Life form: Perennial herb tuberifera (Franch.) W. Beck Distribution:Darjiling . Life Form : Herb Distribution : Darjiling 182. Viola tricolour Life form: Comm. Garden plant in lower 171. Viola canescens Wall. Ganga plain Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Murshidabad,Medinipur, 24 Distribution:Darjiling. Parganas (+),Koch Bihar, Barddhaman, Jalpaiguri, Maldah,Kolkata, Haora,Bankura,Nadia. 172. Viola diffusa Gingins Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling . 183. Viola wallichiana Gingi Life Form : Herb Distribution : Darjiling 173. Viola glaucescens Oudem. Life form: Perennial herb Family : Bixaceae Distribution:Darjiling . 174. Viola hamiltoniana D. Don 184. Bixa orellana L. Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Small tree Distribution:Darjiling . Habitat: Planted as an ornamental tree Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Haora ,Koch 199 Bihar, Dinajpur,Maldah,Kolkata,Medinipur Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Amtala, , Harinbari). 24 Parganas (N) ( Barrackpore), Murshidabad,Nadia Flacourtia jangomas ( Lour. ) . 192. Family: Cochlospermaceae Raeusch . Common name: Paniala Life form: Small tree 185. Cochlospermum religiosum (L.) Alston Habitat: Rarely cultivated Life form: Medium sized or small tree Distribution:Nadia,Dinajpur ,24 Parganas Habitat: Commonly planted as (S) (Falta),Koch Bihar, Jalpaiguri, ornamental plant Murshidabad, Maldah. Distribution: Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad, 24 193. Gynocardia odorata R. Br. Parganas (N) (Nilgunj /Barrakpore) , Life Form : Trees Medinipur, Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Barddhaman,Kolkata,Maldah,Bankura,Hugl i,Koch Bihar. Family: Polygalaceae Family : Flacourtiaceae 194. Polygala arillata Buch. -Ham. ex D. Don 186. Casearia glomerata Roxb. ex DC. Life form: Shrub Life Form : Shrub or tree Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution: Darjiling 195. Polygala arvensis Willd. 187. Caesaria graveolens Dalz. Life form: Shrub Life form: Tree Distribution: Through out West Bengal Distribution:Darjiling. 196. Polygala crotalarioides Buch. -Ham. 188. Casearia kurzii C. B. Clarke ex DC. Life Form : small tree Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Distribution: Birbhum, Barddhaman, Medinipur, Darjiling 189. Casearia tomentosa Roxb. Life Form : Small tree 197. Polygala erioptera DC. Distribution: Barddhaman, Haora, Life form: Shrub Murshidabad, Puruliya, West Dinajpur Distribution: Barddhaman, Puruliya190. Casearia vareca Roxb. 198. Polygala chinensis L. Life Form : Shrub Life form: Ann. Herb Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Habitat: Comm. In pasture lands Distribution:Barddhaman,Maldah, Nadia ,Dinajpur,Hugli,Bankura,Koch Bihar,24 191. Flacourtia indica ( Burm. f. ) Merrill Parganas (N). (Basirhat, Taki), Common name: Baincha Murshidabad,Kolkata,Medinipur. . Life form: Shrub/ small tree Habitat: Very comm. In scrub jungles, vill. Thickets & road side waste dry 199. Polygala linarifolia Humb. ex lands or railway tracks Willd.200 Life form: herb 209. Polycarpon prostratum ( Forssk. ) Distribution:Darjiling Asch. & Schwein. f. Life form: Herb 200. Polygala longifolia Poir. Habitat: Very comm. To all parts of the Life form: Herb lower Ganga delta plain, on ditches, vill. Distribution: Puruliya Thickets Distribution:Koch Bihar,Murshidabad,Maldah, 201. Polygala siberica L. Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,Nadia, 24 Parganas ( N) Life form: Herb Kholapota/Basirhat, Distribution:Darjiling Haroa,Kolkata,Medinipur . Family: Caryophyllaceae 210. Pseudostellaria heterantha (Maxim) 202. Arenaria debilis Hook.f. Pax ex pan & Hoffm. Life form: Perennial Herb Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling Distribution:Darjiling 211. Silene indica Roxb. ex Otth Brachystemma calycinum D. Don 203. Life form: Herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling Distribution:Darjiling . 204. Cerastium fontanum Baumg. subsp. 212. Spergula arvensis L. triviale (Link) Jalas Life form: Ann. Herb Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Rare in cultivated land in winter season Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution:Koch Bihar,Maldah,Murshidabad, 24 Parganas (S) 205. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. ( Harinbari/Sagar Island), Jalpaiguri, Life form: Annual herb Dinajpur,Nadia, Darjiling . Distribution:Darjiling . 213. Sagina japonica (Sw.) Ohwi 206. Drymeria diandra Blume Life form: Annual herb Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling . 214. Sagina procumbens L. 207. Drymeria villosa Cham . Schlecht. Life form: Herb subsp. villosa Distribution:Darjiling Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling . 215. Sagina saginoides (L.) Karsten Life form: Perennial herb 208. Polycarpaea corymbosa (L.) Lam. Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Common in sandy soil, river banks 216. Saponaria officinalis L. & on dry paddy fields Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Murshidabad, 24 Parganas (N) Distribution:Darjiling . (Shyamnagar),Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar,Maldah,Nadia, Dinajpur. 217. Spergula fallax (Lowe) E. H. L. 201 Krause Life form: Herb Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling Distribution: Bankura, Barddhaman 228. Vaccaria pyramidata Medikus 218. Stellaria decumbens Edgew. var. Life form: Herb minor Distribution: Birbhum, 24 Pgs. Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 229. Dianthus chinensis L. Life form: Herb 219. Stellaria lanata Hook. f. Distribution: 24 Parganas . Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 230. Dianthus caryophyllus L. Life form: Herb 220. Stellaria media (L.) Vill. Distribution: 24 Parganas. Life Form: Herb Habitat: (Road side or waste lands) 231. Dianthus barbatus L. Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Gosaba, Life form: Herb Sarsuna),Koch Bihar, Kolkata, Murshidabad, Distribution: 24 Parganas . Medinipur, Nadia, Dinajpur,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Maldah. 232. Gypsophila elegans Bieb. Distribution: 24 Parganas . 221. Stellaria monosperma Buch.-Ham. var. monosperma Life Form : Straggling herb 233. Gypsophila paniculata Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: 24 Parganas .222. Stellaria monosperma Buch.-Ham. var. Family: Portulacaceae paniculata (Edgw.) Majumdar Life Form : Straggling herb 234. Portulaca oleracea L. Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Bara laniya Life form: Annual Herb Habitat: Common Weed in waste Stellaria patens D. Don 223. lands, road sides, railway tracts Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution:Darjiling ,South 24 Pgs. ( Suparibhanga Sunderbans). 224. Stellaria sikkimensis Hook. f. Life form: Decumbent herb 235. Portulaca pilosa L. Distribution:Darjiling Life Form: Succulent herb Distribution:Barddhaman, Medinipur 225. Stellaria subumbellata Edgew. Life form: Herb Portulaca quadrifida L. Distribution:Darjiling 236. Common name: Chotta laniya Life form: Ann. Herb 226. Stellaria uliginosa Murray Habitat: road sides, railway tracts Life form: Herb Distribution: Common throughout S. West Distribution:Darjiling Bengal, 24 Parganas (N) (Manirampur / Barrackpore). 227. Stellaria vestita Kurz202 Family: Tamaricaceae Chmpa Life form: Tree 237. Tamarix aphylla (L.) Kanza Habitat: Commonly planted in gardens Common name: Lal-jhau Distribution: Haora, 24 Parganas (S) Life form: Medium sized tree ( Sonarpur, Titagarh). Habitat: Sandy & salty areas Distribution: 24 Parganas (N)(Ichhapur). 244. Calophyllum polyanthum Wall. ex 238. Tamarix dioica Roxb. choisy Common name: Laljhau Life Form: Tree Life form: Shrub to small tree Distribution: Terai region of W. Bengal Habitat: River banks & the edge of marshy lands 245. Garcinia cowa Roxb. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) Common name: Kau (Bamanpukuria/Minakhan). Life form: Dioecious tree Habitat: Occasionally planted in 239. Tamarix ericoides Rott. & Willd. gardens Life form: Under shrub opr shrub Distribution:Darjiling ,Puruliya,Medinipur,Ko Distribution:River beds of West Bengal. ch Bihar,South 24 Pgs. (Baruipur),Jalpaiguri,Bankura. 240. Tamarix indica Willd. Life form: Shrub or small tree 246. Garcinia stipulata T. Anders. Distribution:Haora, 24 Pgs, often cultivated Life Form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling Family: Elatinaceae 247. Garcinia xanthochymus Hook.f. 241. Bergia ammannioides Roxb. ex Roth Life Form: Large tree. Common name: Lal-keshuria Distribution:Darjiling Life form: Annual Herb Habitat: Common on the canal sides, 248. Mammea suriga (Ham. ex Roxb.) paddy fields, river margins & marshy places Life Form: Tree Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) Distribution: throughout the plains (Shyamnagar),24 Parganas (S) ( Sagar Islands). 249. Mesua ferrea L. Life Form: Tree 242. Bergia capensis L. ( 1771 ). Distribution:Plains of West Bengal Common name: Kesuria Life form: Ann. Herb 250. Mesua floribunda (Wall.) Kosterm. Habitat: Rarely on the wet places in the paddy fields, road nalas Life Form: Evergreen tree Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) ( Nilgunge/ Distribution:Darjiling Barrackpore). Family: Dipterocarpaceae Family: Clusiaceae 251. Hopea odorata Roxb. Life form: Tree 243. Calophyllum inophyllum L. Common name: Kath Champa or Sultan Distribution: Hugli203 Life form: Herb or undershrub 252. Shorea robusta Gaertn. f. Habitat: Very comm. In lower Ganga delta, found in loam soil, hedges, Common name: Sal thickets Life form: Tree Distribution:Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas Habitat: Very rare in the district 24-parganas ( ( Kakdeep / Sunderbans), Medinipur, Kolkata, N & S ). Maldah, Nadia, Murshidabad, Hugli, Distribution:Bankura,Barddhaman,Darjiling,H Barddhaman,Haora, Jalpaiguri. ugli,Jalpaiguri,Puruliya,Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas (Nilganj). 259. Abutilon mesapotamica (Spring.) Mill. 253. Vatica lanceaefolia (Roxb.) Blume Life form: Shrub Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution: Jalpaiguri 260. Abutilon persicum (Burm.f.) Merrill Family: Malvaceae Life Form :Herb & undershrub Distribution: West Bengal 254. Abelmoschus crinitus Wall. Life form: Herb 261. Abutilon striatum Dickson & Lindl. Distribution: Puruliya Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling . 255. Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Medikus Common name: Bhindi/ Dherosh 262. Abutilon theophrastii Medikus Life form: Shrub/ undershrub Life form: Herb & Undershrub Habitat: Cultivated Distribution: 24 Pgs (Rare). Distribution:Maldah, 24 Parganas (N) ( Barrackpore),Barddhaman 263. Alcea rosea (L.) Cav. ,Dinajpur,Darjiling,Koch Bihar, Hugli, Common name: Hollyhock Puruliya,Haora,Bankura,Murshidabad,Nadia,J Life form: Ann. Garden herb alpaiguri,Medinipur,Kolkata . Habitat: Cultivated Distribution: 24 Parganas (N)( Shyamnagar). 256. Abelmoschus ficulneus (L.) Wight. & Arn. 264. Fioria vitifolia (L.) Mattei Life form: Herb & undershrub Life form: Herb & Undershrub Distribution: Central and southern West Distribution: Throughout West Bengal.. Bengal 265. Gossypium barbadense L. 257. Abelmoschus moschatus Medikus Common name: Kapastula Common name: Kalkastari or Mushak Dana’ Life form: Shrub Life form: Ann. Undershrub Habitat: Cultivated In low lands Habitat: Rarely seen on cultivated Distribution:Hugli,Medinipur,Kolkata,South lands as a weed 24 Pgs.( Ghatur More / Distribution:Barddhaman,Koch Amtala),Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman Koch Bihar,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Medinipur, 24 Parganas Bihar,Maldah,Haora,Murshidabad,Nadia. (N)( Nilgunj, Barrakpore). 266. Gossypium harbaceum L. 258. Abutilon indicum (L.) Sweet Common name: Kapastula Common name: Petari/ Jhampi Life form: Shrub204 Habitat: Cultivated in low lands Distribution:24 Parganas (N). Distribution:Barddhaman,Dinajpur,Haora,Mal (Birati/Saptagram). dah, Koch Bihar,Nadia, Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad, Hugli, 24 Parganas 273. Hibiscus tiliaceus L. (S)(Gosaba, Joygram/ Common name: Bhola Minakhan),Medinipur,Kolkata. Life form: Much-branched tree Habitat: Common throughout the 267. Hibiscus cannabinus L. beach tidal forests in lower Common name: Mestapat Ganga delta, forming Life form: Prickly herb thickets near shore Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Kolkata,Murshidabad,Hugli,Haor Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) (Kazipara / a,Barddhaman,Nadia,Koch Bihar,Medinipur, Barasat). 24 Parganas (S) ( Chemagar/Sagar Island),Jalpaiguri,Maldah,Dinajpur. 268. Hibiscus mutabilis L. Common name: Sthalpadma 274. Hibiscus vitifolius L. (1753). Life form: Small tree or shrub Common name: Ban Kapas Habitat: Planted as ornamental Life form: Annual herb garden plant Habitat: Common in vill. Thickets & Distribution: 24 Parganas (Dhanyakuria). scrub jungles of railway tracts & road side waste lands 269. Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Haroa, Diamond Harbour). Common name: Jaba Life form: Large shrub Habitat: Commonly cultivated as 275. Kydia calycina Roxb ornamental plant Common name: Pola or Bankapas Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Life form: Small tree (Subuddhipur/Baruipur). Habitat: Hedges Distribution:Bankura, Barddhaman, 270. Hibiscus sabdariffa L. Puruliya,Haora,24 Parganas (N). (Shyamnagar), Medinipur, Jalpaiguri, Koch Common name: Chukar or Mesta Bihar. Life form: Annual shrub Habitat: Very rare as a garden escape 276. Kydia jujubifolia Griff. Distribution:24 Pgs.(S)(Falta). Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling . 271. Hibiscus schizopetalus Hook. f. Common name: Jhumka Jaba 277. Malachra capitata L. Life form: Shrub Common name: Ban-Bhindi or Ban-Dheros Habitat: Common in Village Life form: Undershrub Gardens or in hedges Habitat: Dry waste lands, along the Distribution:South South 24 Pgs.(Gocharan). railway lines & road side hedges & vill. Thickets 272. Hibiscus tetraphyllus Roxb. Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Haora,Medinipur,Koch Bihar,Murshidabad,Kolkata,South 24 Pgs. Common name: Ban-bendi (Canning / Malirdhar), Nadia,Hugli. Life form: Shrub Habitat: Village Thickets & waste places 278. Malva rotundifolia L. 205 Common name: Lapha 287. Sida acuta Burm. f. Life form: Herb Common name: Kureta Habitat: Garden escape Life form: Undershrub Distribution: 24 Parganas( N) Habitat: Dry waste lands, vill. (Nilgang/Barrackpore). Thickets, road side or along railway tracts Distribution:Darjiling,Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri 279. Malva neglecta (Wall.) Roth ,Dinajpur,Koch Bihar,Haora,Hugli,Medinipur, Life form: Annual herb Nadia,Barddhaman,Kolkata,South 24 Pgs. Distribution:Darjiling. (Dhapdhapi, Amtala),Maldah.280. Malva parviflora L. 288. Sida alba L. Life form: Annual herb Life Form: undeshrub or herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: throughout West Bengal281. Malvaviscus arboreus Cav. 289. Sida cordifolia L. Life form: Shrub Common name: Berela Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Herb Habitat: Weed of hedges, waste grounds & 282. Malvastrum americanum (L.) Torr. dry shady places Life Form: Heb Distribution:Maldah,Koch Distribution: Kolkata, Haora Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Medinipur, Dinajpur,Nadia,Hugli, 24 Parganas ( Subuddhipur/Baruipur),Haora,Murshidabad. 283. Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.) Garcke 290. Sida glutinosa Commerson ex Cav. Life form: Herb Life form: Herb Habitat: Dry waste lands & vill. Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies Surroundings Distribution:24 Parganas (N)(Barasat). Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Bamanghata/Salt Lake). 291. Sida rhombifolia L. Common name: Lal Berala 284. Malvastrum conzattii Greenm. Life form: Undershrub Common name: Lanka Jaba Habitat: Common in waste lands & Life form: Straggling shrub thickets Habitat: Hedge plant Distribution:Nadia,Kolkata,Jalpaiguri,Haora, Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Joynagar, Medinipur,Murshidabad,Koch Bihar,Hugli, 24 Panihati). Parganas (N)(Magrahat, Barasat),Maldah, Dinajpur. 285. Nayariophyton zizyphifolium (Griff.) Long & Miller 292. Sida rhombifolia L. var. retusa (L.) Life Form: Tree Common name: Jangli Methi Distribution: Darjiling Life form: Shrub Habitat: Occasional in vill. Thickets 286. Pavonia repanda (Roxb. ex J. E. Distribution: 24 Parganas (N)(Barasat). Sm.) Spreng Life Form:Herb 293. Sida spinosa L. Distribution: Darjiling Common name: Swet Berela Life form: Shrub206 Habitat: Waste lands & along the Family: Bombacaceae road sides Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Kulti). 299. Adansonia digitata L. Common name: Gorakh-amli 294. Sida cordata (Burm.f.) Borss. Life form: Tree Common name: Junka Habitat: Occasionally planted as Life form: Much branched herb avenue tree Habitat: Waste lands & cult. Fields Distribution:Nadia,Hugli, Dinajpur, Haora, Distribution: 24 Parganas ( N) (Baruipur, Kolkata, 24 Parganas ( Ghoshpur), Narikeldanga). Medinipur,Maldah, Haora,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad,K 295. Thespesia lampas (Cav.) Dalz. & Gibs. och Bihar. Common name: Ban Kapas Life form: Shrub 300. Bombax ceiba L. Habitat: On the margin of tidal Common name: Simul creeks of the mangrove forest Life form: Spreading tree Distribution:Hugli,Haora,Nadia,South 24 Pgs. Habitat: Well planted in the vill. (Sagar Mela Premises, Sagar Areas Island),Murshidabad, Medinipur. Distribution:Murshidabad,South24Pgs. (Malancha/Minakhan),Bankura,Hugli,Barddha man,Maldah, Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar, Dinajpur, 296. Thespesia populneoides ( Roxb. ) Birbhum,Kolkata,Puruliya,Medinipur,Haora,N Kostel. adia. Common name: Paras Life form: Small to medium sized tree Habitat: Very common throughout 301. Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. the mangrove reclaimed areas of Sunderbans Common name: Swet Simu Distribution: Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas Life form: Tall tree (Naraharipur/Sagar Islands). Habitat: Occasionally planted in the vill. Areas & road sides Distribution: 24 Parganas (Minakhan). 297. Urena lobata L. Common name: Ban Okra Family: Sterculiaceae Life form: Undershrub Habitat: Wastelands, hedges & vill. Thickets 302. Abroma augusta L. f. Distribution:Nadia,Kolkata Common name: Ulat Kambal South 24 Pgs.(Canning, Life form: Shrub Sarbaria),Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Koch Habitat: Dry waste places, roadsides Bihar,Haora,Barddhaman, Maldah, & railway lines Murshidabad, Birbhum,Medinipur, Distribution:Puruliya,Medinipur,Bankura,Jalp Dinajpur,Darjiling. aiguri,Nadia, 24 Parganas (S) (Joynagar),Barddhaman. 298. Wissadula periplocifolia (L.) Presl. ex Thw. 303. Bytneria herbacea Roxb. Life form: Small shrub Life Form: Herb Habitat: Cultivated on vill. Gardens Distribution: Medinipur, Puruliya Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) (Malirdhar/Canning). 304. Bytlneria pilosa Roxb. Life Form: Woody climbing shrub207 Distribution: Darjiling Distribution:Kolkata, 24 Parganas (Ranigarh, Surjyapur),Haora. 305. Eriolaena hookariana Wight. & Arn. Common name: Gona-goli 312. Kleinhovia hospita L. Life form: Small tree Life form: Tree Habitat: Planted in the garden Habitat: Commonly planted as avenue tree Distribution: 24 Parganas (Nimichi/Bhebe). Distribution:24 Parganas (S)(Gosaba), Haora, Kolkata. 306. Firmiana colorata (Roxb.) R.Br. Common name: Sammari 313. Melochia corchorifolia L. Life form: Large tree Life Form: herb or undershrub Habitat: Wild in vill. Surroundings, Distribution: Throughout the plains. occasionally planted Distribution: 24 Parganas (Brace Bridge). 314. Melochia nodiflora Sw. Life Form: Shrub or undershrubs 307. Guazuma ulmifolia Lam. var. Distribution: Haora tomentosa (Kunth ) Schum. Common name: Nipal Tunth Life form: Medium sized tree 315. Pentapetes phoenicea L. Habitat: Shrubberies Common name: Katlata Distribution:Birbhum,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri, Life form: Herb Koch Bihar,Hugli, Habitat: Weed of rice field & other Dinajpur,Murshidabad,Kolkata,24 Pgs.( Brace marshy lands, cultivated as ornamental plant. Bridge), Nadia, Puruliya, Medinipur. Distribution: Haora, Kolkata,24 Parganas (N) ( Gobardanga). 308. Helicteres hirsuta Lour. Life Form: shrub 316. Pterospermum acerifolium Willd. Distribution: Darjiling Common name: Kanak Champa Life form: Large tree Habitat: Planted in gardens 309. Helicteres isora L. Distribution:Puruliya, Life Form: Shrub Dinajpur,Murshidabad,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Hugli, Distribution: Bankura, Medinipur, Haora,Bankura,Maldah, Birbhum,Koch Puruliya Bihar,Medinipur,Barddhaman,Kolkata, 24 Parganas ( Baruipur). 310. Heritiera fomes Buch.-Ham. Common Name: Sundari 317. Pterospermum lanceaefolium Roxb. Life form: Tall tree Common name: Bankalla Habitat: Mangroove Life form: Tree Distribution: 24 Parganas (Sundarban, Habitat: Commonly cultivated Satzelia, Netidhopani). Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) ( Sodepur).311. Heritiera littoralis Dryand 318. Pterospermum suberifolium Lam. Common name: Sundari Common name: Muskunda Life form: Tree Life form: Small tree Habitat: Found in back mangals & Habitat: Rarely cultivated; few occasionally on the fringe area of the shore plants found in the Alipore Zoological lines Gardens, public gardens at Shyamnagar. Distribution: 24 Parganas (N)(Alipore, 208 Shymnagar). 326. Sterculia villosa Roxb. ( 1832 ). Common name: Udal 319. Pterospermum xylocarpum Life form: Tree (Gaertn.) Santapau & Wagh Habitat: Planted in the gardens & Life Form: Tree roadsides Distribution: Bankura Distribution:Medinipur,Puruliya,Barddhaman, Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas (Brace Bridge), Kolkata,Bankura. 320. Pterygota alata (Roxb.) R. Br. Common name: Buddha-Narikel Life form: Large tree 327. Waltheria indica L. (1753). Habitat: Commonly cultivated for its Common name: Khardundhi. nut, as well as ornamental Life form: Herb Distribution:Kolkata, 24 Parganas Habitat: Common weed in cult. ( Dewanganj),Puruliya,Medinipur,Koch Fields Bihar,Bankura,Barddhaman, Jalpaiguri. Distribution:24 Parganas (N) (Bhasila/Barasat).321. Reevesia wallichii R. Br. Family: Tiliaceae Life Form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling 328. Brownlowia tersa (L.) Kosterm Common name: Bhola Sundri 322. Sterculia foetida L. (1753). Life form: Medium tree Common name: Jangli Badam Habitat: Occasionally in mangrove Life form: Tall tree swamp forest of Sunderbans Habitat: Village gardens Distribution:Koch Bihar,,Bankura, 24 Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Medinipu Parganas (S) ( Satzelia, Sunderbans), Kolkata, r, 24 Parganas Medinipur, Jalpaiguri, Maldah, (Malatipur/Deganga),Puruliya,Kolkata, Koch Nadia,Hugli,Haora,Murshidabad,Barddhaman. Bihar,Bankura. 329. Corchorus aestuans L. ( 1759) 323. Sterculia hamiltonii (O. Kutze.) Common name: Tita pat Adelb. Life form: Suffruticose herb Life Form:Shrub or small tree Habitat: Commonly cultivated or in Distribution: Koch Bihar, Jalpaiguri, waste places & among hedges of the gardens Darjiling Distribution:Medinipur ,Dinajpur,Haora,Maldah,Nadia,Barddhaman, 324. Sterculia roxburghii Wall. Murshidabad,Koch Bihar, Kolkata, 24 Parganas (S) ( Nimpith, Budge Life Form: Tree Budge),Hugli,Jalpaiguri. Distribution : Jalpaiguri 330. Corchorus capsularis L. ( 1753 ). 325. Sterculia urens Roxb. ( 1795 ). Common name: Pat Common name: Keonji Life form: Annual shrub Life form: Large tree Habitat: Commonly cultivated in Habitat: Avenue tree in the gardens moist places throughout the lower Ganga & roadsides delta, inwastelands & roadsides Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) Distribution: 24 Parganas (N)(Naihati). ( Madarhat/Baruipur).209 331. Corchorus olitorius L. (1753). 339. Triumfetta pentandra A. Rich. Common name: Pat Life Form : Herb Life form: Herb or undershrub Distribution: In plains Habitat: Commonly cultivated Distribution: Jalpaiguri, Kolkata,Koch Bihar,Puruliya,Dinajpur, 340. Triumfetta pilosa Roth Medinipur,Haora,Hugli, Maldah, 24 Pgs(N) Life Form : Herbs or undershrubs (Habra), Nadia. Distribution:Darjiling332. Corchorus trilocularis L. 341. Triumfetta rhomboidea Jacq. (1760). Life Form : Herb Common name: Ban Okra Distribution: 24 Pgs Life form: Suffruticose herb or undershrub Habitat: Very common on 333. Grewia asiatica L. wastelands & railway tracts Common name: Phalsa Distribution:Nadia,Murshidabad,Hugli,Koch Life form: tree Bihar,Haora ,Dinajpur,Medinipur,Puruliya, Habitat: Cultivated in waste lands, village Maldah, 24 Parganas ( Sasan thickets & shrubberies Road/Baruipur),Kolkata,Bankura, Jalpaiguri. Distribution: Throughout the plains Family: Elaeocarpaceae 334. Grewia flavescens Juss. Life Form : small tree 342. Elaeocarpus ganitrus Roxb. (1824). Distribution:Puruliya Common name: Rudrakia Life form: Medium tree 335. Grewia hirsuta Vahl Habitat: Planted in gardens or in the Life Form :Shrub roadsides Distribution: Kolkata (Alipore), Haora. Distribution: Terai & Duars of West Bengal 343. Elaeocarpus serratus L. 336. Grewia sapida Roxb. ex DC. Life Form : Small tree Common Name: "Phalsa-Tenga" Distribution: Jalpaiguri, 24 Pgs Life Form : Shrub Distribution: Jalpaiguri, Darjiling, 344. Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Gaertn.) Medinipur, Puruliya Schum. Life Form : Tree 337. Grewia serrulata Vahl Distribution: Jalpaiguri Life Form : Tree Distribution: Barddhaman, Puruliya, 345. Elaeocarpus tectorius (Lour.) Poir. Malda, Medinipur Life Form : Tree Distribution: Jalpaiguri 338. Triumfetta annua L. Life Form : Herb 346. Elaeocarpus varunua Buch.-Ham. Distribution:Darjiling Life Form : Tree Distribution: Jalpaiguri210 347. Mutingia calabura L. (1753). Life Form: Woody Climber Common name: Suji Phal Distribution: Jalpaiguri Life form: Small tree Habitat: Introduced an escape along 354. Aspidopteris nutans (Roxb. ex DC.) the railway tracts, in the building debrises & Juss protected waste lands Life Form:Woody climber Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Koch Distribution:Darjiling Bihar,Bankura,Murshidabad,Nadia,Kolkata,M edinipur,South 24 Pgs. (Ghoshpur/ Kulti),Maldah,Puruliya. 355. Aspidopteris rotundifolia A. Juss. ( 1840 ). 348. Sloanea sterculiacea (Benth.) Life form: Climbing shrub Habitat: Vill. Thickets Rehder & Wilson Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) Life Form : Tree (Palta/Barrackpore). Distribution: Jalpaiguri 356. Hiptage benghalensis (L.) Kurz ( 1874). Family: Linaceae Common name: Basanti Life form: Climbing shrub 349. Anisadenia khasyana Griff. Habitat: Common in gardens & Life form: Epiphytic herb occasionally in as escape Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: 24 Parganas (Baguihati).350. Linum usitatissimum L. (1753). Family: Zygophyllaceae Common name: Tisi Life form: Annual herb 357. Kallstroemia pubescens ( G. Don ) Habitat: Mostly cultivated as a crop, Dandy ( 1955 ). also seen as an escape near the cultivated Life form: Trailing annual herb Fields & waste lands Habitat: Along railway lines & canal Distribution:Murshidabad,Nadia,Hugli,Kolkat margin a, Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,Medinipur, Puruliya, 24 Distribution: 24 Parganas (N)(Shyamnagar). Parganas( Dhopagachhi/Kalyanpur),Birbhum, Maldah, Haora, Barddhaman,Bankura,Koch Bihar, Darjiling. 358. Tribulus terrestris L. ( 1753 ). Common name: Gokhure Life form: Annual herb 351. Reinwrardtia cicanoba (Buch. Habitat: Rarely found on the waste -Ham. ex DC.) Hara places, near river banks, paddy fields & dry Life Form: under Shrub waste lands Distribution: Darjiling Distribution:Kolkata,Jalpaiguri,Haora,Murshi dabad,Hugli,Koch Bihar,Maldah,Medinipur, 352. Reinwrardtia indica Dumort South Life Form: Under Shrub 24 Pgs (Kulpi) ,Dinajpur. Distribution: Darjiling Family: Oxalidaceae Family: Malpighiaceae 359. Averrhoa carambola L. (1753). 353. Aspidopteris balakrishnanii Common name: Kamranga Srivastava Life form: Small to medium tree211 Habitat: Planted in the garden Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Hugli, Jalpaiguri,Haora,Barddhaman, Kolkata,South Family: Balsaminaceae 24 Pgs. (Bireshwarpur, near Kulpi), Nadia, Medinipur. 367. Hydrocera triflora Wight. & Arn. (1834). 360. Biophytum reinwardtii (Zucc.) Common name: Domuti Walp. Life form: Herb Life Form: Herb Habitat: Mostly cultivated, rarely as Distribution: Jalpaiguri garden escape Distribution:Medinipur,Hugli,Haora,Murshida 361. Biophytum sensitivum (L.) DC. (1824) bad,Koch Bihar,Nadia,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas Common name: Bannanga’ or ‘Jhalai (S) Life form: Annual herb (Goranbose), Kolkata. Habitat: Waste places Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Dewangunj, 368. Impatiens angustiflora Hook.f. Behala). Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling 362. Oxalis acetosella L. var griffithii (Edgw. & Hook. f.) Hara 369. Impatiens arguta Hook. f. & Thoms. Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution:Darjiling.363. Oxalis corniculata L. (1753). 370. Impatiens balsamina L. Common name: Amrul Life form: Annual herb Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Very common on the shady & waste places 371. Impatiens bicornuata Wall. Distribution:Murshidabad,Barddhaman,Hugli, Life form: Annual herb Haora,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Puruliya,Maldah Distribution:Darjiling. ,Dinajpur, Nadia,Koch Bihar,Medinipur,Kolkata, 24 Parganas (S) (Brace Bridge, Behala),Bankura. 372. Impatiens bracteata Colebr. Life form: Herb 364. Oxalis martiana Zucc. Distribution:Darjiling Life form: Geophyte Distribution:Darjiling . 373. Impatiens cathcartii Hook. f. & Thoms. Life form: Undershrub Distribution:Darjiling. 365. Oxalis latifolia Kunth (1821). Common name: Khatmitthi Life form: Herb 374. Impatiens chinensis L. Habitat: Rarely found on the waste, Life form: Herb marshy lands Distribution:Darjiling Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) (Santoshpur),Darjiling. 375. Impatiens cymbifera Hook.f. Life form: Herb 366. Oxalis tetraphylla Cav. Distribution:Darjiling Life form: Geophyte212 376. Impatiens decipiens Hook. f. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling 388. Impatiens pulchra Hook. f. & Thoms. 377. Impatiens discolor DC. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 389. Impatiens racemosa DC. 378. Impatiens exilis Hook.f. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling 390. Impatiens radiata Hook.f. 379. Impatiens falcifer Hook.f. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling 391. Impatiens scabrida DC. 380. Impatiens florigera C. B. Clarke Life form: Herb Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling Distribution:Darjiling 392. Impatiens scitula Hook.f. 381. Impatiens gamblei Hook.f. Life Form:Succulent herb Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling Distribution:Darjiling 393. Impatiens spirifer Hook.f. 382. Impatiens gammiei Hook. f. Life Form: Herb Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling Distribution:Darjiling 394. Impatiens stenantha Hook. f. 383. Impatiens graciliflora Hook.f. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling 395. Impatiens sulcata Wall. 384. Impatiens jurpia Buch.-Ham ex Life Form: Herb Hook. f. & Thoms. Distribution: Darjiling Life form: Tall herb Distribution:Darjiling 396. Impatiens trilobata Colebr. Life Form: Tall herb 385. Impatiens longipes Hook.f. Distribution: Darjiling Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 397. Impatiens tripetale Roxb. ex DC. Life Form: Herb 386. Impatiens porrecta Wall.ex Hook.f. & Thoms. Distribution: Darjiling Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 398. Impatiens tuberculata Hook.f. & Thoms. 387. Impatiens puberula DC. Life Form: Herb213 Distribution: Darjiling Habitat: Planted in the orchard of the villages 399. Impatiens uncipetala C. B. Clarke Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar, 24 Life Form: Herb Parganas (Dewangan). Distribution: Darjiling 408. Citrus medica L. (1753). 400. Impatiens urticifolia Wall. Common name: Patilebu Life form: Shrub Life Form: Herb Habitat: Planted in the orchard of the Distribution: Darjiling villages Distribution:Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas 401. Impatiens wallichii Hook.f. ( Harinbari/ Sagar Islan),Darjiling. Life Form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling 409. Citrus medica var. limonum (Wight & Aru.) Hook. f. ( 1875 ). Family: Rutaceae Common name: Karna Lebu Life form: Shrub 402. Acronychia pedunculata (L.) Miq Habitat: Planted in the orchard Life form: Small tree Distribution:24 Parganas (S)(Brace Bridge). Distribution: Jalpaiguri, 24 Pgs 410. Clausena dentata (Willd.) Roem. 403. Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. Life form: Shrub Common Name: Bel Distribution:Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Life form: Tree Distribution: Throughout plains 411. Clausena excavata Burm. f. Life form: Undershrub or small tree 404. Atalantia missionis Wight Oliver Distribution:Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Life form: Small thorny tree Distribution: Barddhaman 412. Clausena pentaphylla DC. Life form: Shrub 405. Boeninghousenia albiflora (Hook.) Distribution:Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Reiehb Meisn Life form: Shrub 413. Evodia trichotoma (Lour.) Planch. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. 406. Citrus aurantifolia (Christm.) Swingle ( 1912). 414. Evodia glaberifolia (Champ.) Common name: Kagzilebu Balakr. Life form: Shrub/small tree Life form: Tall tree Habitat: Planted in the orchard & on Distribution:Darjiling, Jalpaiguri the pond sides, also planted as hedge plant Distribution:Maldah,Medinipur, 24 Parganas 415. Evodia lunuankenda (Gaertn.) ( Baruipu), Murshidabad,Koch Bihar,Dinajpur ,Nadia, Hugli,Kolkata,Haora,Jalpaiguri. Merr. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling, Jalpaiguri 407. Citrus maxima (Burm. f.) Merr. ( 1917). Common name: Batabi Lebu 416. Feronia limonia (L.) Swingle ( 1914). Life form: Shrub214 Common name: Kathbel 423. Paramigyna monophylla Wight Life form: Large tree Life form: Shruby climber Habitat: Self shown, planted in the Distribution: Darjiling. garden edges and as avenue tree Distribution: Dinajpur, Kolkata,Barddhaman,Nadia,Puruliya,Bankura, 424. Skimmia arborescens T. Anders. Medinipur Life form: Subscandent hrub Murshidabad,Haora,Birbhum,Maldah,Jalpaigu Distribution:Darjiling . ri,Hugli, 24 Parganas (Gadkhal). 425. Skimmia laureola (DC.) Sieb & 417. Glycosmis mauritiana (Lam.) Tanaka Zucc.ex Walp. (1928). Life form: Shrub Common name: Sheora Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Shrub Habitat: Moist places 426. Todalia asiatica (L.) Lam Distribution:South 24 Pgs. (Baruipur). Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling . 418. Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.)DC. Common name: Arsaora 427. Zanthoxylum acanthopodium DC. Life form: Shrub / small tree Life form: Tree Habitat: Waste lands, hedges, Distribution:Darjiling. thickets, roadsides Distribution: Birbhum, Maldah, Haora, 24 Parganas ( Shyamnagar), Nadia, Dinajpur , 428. Zanthoxylum armatum DC. Kolkata, Barddhaman, Puruliya, Jalpaiguri, Life form: Small tree Hugli, Darjiling, Bankura, Murshidabad, Distribution:Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Medinipur. 429. Zanthoxylum nitidum (Roxb.) DC. Life Form : Scandent shrub Limonia accidissima L. 419. Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Life form: Tree Distribution: Cultivated in plains 430. Zanthoxylum ovalifolium Wight 420. Luvunga scandens (Roxb.) Buch. Life form: Trees or shrub Distribution:Darjiling , Jalpaiguri -Ham. ex Wight Life form: shrub Distribution: Sunderbans 431. Zanthoxylum oxyphyllum Edgw. Life form: Shrub 421. Murraya koenigii (L.) Jack. (1820) Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Kamini Life form: Shrub/small tree Habitat: Commonly cultivated 432. Zanthoxylum rhitza (Roxb.) DC. Distribution:Darjiling, 24 Parganas (N) Life Form: Trees (Birati). Distribution: DarjilingFamily: Simaroubaceae 422. Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack Life Form : Shrub or small tree Distribution: Cultivated 433. Ailanthus excelsa Roxb. ( 1795 ). Common name: Madala215 Life form: Large tree Habitat: Common as avenue tree 443. Garuga pinnata Roxb. (1811). Distribution:Bankura, North24 Pgs. Common name: Nilbhadi ( Titagar),Puruliya,Murshidabad,Kolkata,Jalpa Life form: Tree iguri,Dinajpur, Habitat: Rarely found on the village Haora, Koch Bihar,Birbhum,Maldah,Nadia. jungles Distribution:Hugli,Maldah,Barddhaman,Murs 434. Brucea mollis Wall. ex Kurz hidabad,Puruliya,Dinajpur, 24 Parganas (S) Life form: Shrub (Dhopagachhi / Distribution:Darjiling Baruipur),Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Bankura,Koch Bihar. 435. Picrasma javanica Blume Life form: Trees Family: Meliaceae Distribution: Jalpaiguri 444. Aglaia cucullata (Roxb.) Pellegrin. Family: Ochnaceae (1819). Common name: Amur 436. Ochna obtusata DC. Life form: Medium tree Life form: Shrub or small tree Habitat: Mangrove forest of Distribution: Bankura, Haora, N. Bengal Sunderbans, along the side of tidal canals & creeks; swamp forest. 437. Ochna pumila Buch.-Ham.ex DC. Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Henri Islands / Life form: Undeshrub Bakkhali). Distribution: Medinipur, N. Bengal. Puruliya 445. Amoora cucullata Roxb. 438. Ochna squarrosa L. ( 1762 ). Life form: Tree Life form: Large shrub or small tree Distribution: Occasional in 24- Habitat: Hedges & gardens Parganas Distribution:24 Parganas (N).(Titagarh). 446. Aphanamixis polystachya (Wall.) Parker Family: Burseraceae (1931). Common name: Tikta Raj Life form: Small tree 439. Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Colebr. Habitat: Thickets, Village Life Form: Tree Shrubberies, occasionally cultivated Distribution: Barddhaman, Puruliya Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Roynagar/Barasat). 440. Bursera serrata Wall.ex Colebr. Life Form: Tree 447. Azadirachta indica L. A. Juss. (1830). Distribution: Medinipur, Puruliya Common name: Neem Life form: Large tree Habitat: Roadsides & Village 441. Canarium strictum Roxb. Shrubberies, common Life Form: Tree Distribution:Hugli,Maldah,Haora,Jalpaiguri,N Distribution: Darjiling adia,Bankura,Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas (Every where in the 442. Garuga gamblei King ex Smith district),Dinajpur,Kolkata,Medinipur,Puruliya, Life form: Trees Barddhaman,Murshidabad. Distribution: Dajiling, N. Bengal216 448. Chisocheton paniculatus (Roxb.) Hiern 458. Toona ciliata Roem. & Schult. (1846). Life form: Medium size tree Common name: Tunt Distribution: Jalpaiguri. Life form: Large tree Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar, 24 449. Chukrasia tabularis A. Juss. Parganas ( Chandpara /Gobardang,). Life form: Tree . Distribution: Koch Bihar, Jalpaiguri. 459. Xylocarpus gangeticus C.E. Parkinson 450. Cipadessa baccifera (Roth) Miq Life Form: Tree 445. Life form: Small shrub Distribution: 24 Pgs. Habitat: Very rare, found along the railway tracts & waste places 460. Xylocarpus granatum Koeng. (1784). Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Common name: Dhundul (Baguihati/Kestopur). Life form: Medium tree Habitat: Very common on the side of 451. Dysoxylum binectariferum Hook.f. tidal creeks, river sides & intertidal mangrove & Beddome forests of Sunderbans. Life form: Small tree Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Distribution: Jalpaiguri. (Satzelia/Sunderbans).461. Xylocarpus mekongensis Piere (1897). 452. Melia azedarach L. (1753). Common name: Pasur Common name: Maha Neem Life form: Medium tree Life form: Medium sized tree Habitat: Very common on the tidal Habitat: Planted as avenue tree or in and intertidal mangrove forests of Sunderbans the railway stations Distribution: 24 Parganas , Distribution:Medinipur 24 Parganas (Harinbari),Medinipur. (Rabindra Sarabar), Maldah, Hugli, Dinajpur, Murshidabad, Family: Olacaceae Kolkata,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Birbhum,Haora,Bard dhaman,Bankura,Puruliya,Koch Bihar. 462. Olax nana Wall. (1832) ex Benth Life form: Low undershrub 453. Soymida febrifuga A. Juss. Habitat: Village thickets, associated Life form: Tall tree with species of Lantana, Croton & Euphorbia. Distribution: Medinipur, Puruliya Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Narendrapur/Kamalgachhi). 454. Swietenia macrophylla King Life Form: Tree 463. Olax scandens Roxb Distribution: Cultivated Life Form: Climbing shrub Distribution: Bankura, Birbhum, Malda, 457. Swietenia mahagoni Jacq. (1760). Puruliya, Medinipur Common name: Mahagony Life form: Large tree Family: Celastraceae Habitat: Planted as avenue tree or privet garden 464. Bhesa robusta (Roxb.) Ding Distribution: 24 Parganas (Majerhat),Koch Hou Bihar,Jalpaiguri. Life form: Tree217 Distribution: Darjiling. 475. E. hamiltonianus Wall. Life form: Small tree 465. Cassine glauca (Rottb.) O. Kuntze Distribution: Darjiling. ( 1891). Common name: Chikyeng 476. Euonymus frigidus Wall. Life form: Small tree Life form: Shrub Habitat: Occasionally planted as Distribution:Darjiling. ornamental tree Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Bhangar). 477. E. elongatus (Cowan & Cowan) Hara Life form: Shrub 466. Celastrus dependens Wall. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. 478. Euonymus theifolius Wall.ex Laws. Distribution:Darjiling. 467. Celastrus hookeri Prain Life form: Shrub 479. E. tingens Wall. Distribution: Jalpaiguri. Life form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling 468. Celastrus monospermus Roxb. Life form: Shruby climber 480. Euonymus vagans Wall. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Undershrub Distribution:Darjiling.469. Celastrus paniculatus Willd. 481. Euonymus vibernoides Prain Life form: Climbing shrub Life form: Epiphytic undershrub Distribution: Bankura, Barddhaman, Distribution:Darjiling. Maldah, Puruliya. 482. Maytenus emarginata (Willd.) Ding 470. Celastrus stylosus Wall. Hou Life form: Shruby climber Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Puruliya.471. Erythropalum vagum (Griff.) Mast. 483. M. hookeri Loes Life form: Climber Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.472. Euonymus attenuatus Wall. ex Laws. 484. Maytenus rufa (Wall.) Hara Life form: TreDistribution: Darjiling, Life form: Shrub Jalpaiguri. Distribution:Darjiling.473. Euonymus echinatus Wall. 485. Maytenus Thoms.onii (Kurz) Raju & Life form: Epiphytic undershrub Babu Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 474. E. fimbriatus Wall. Life form: Tree 486. Microtropis discolor (Wall.) Arn. Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Small tree Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri.218 496. Ventilago denticulata Willd. Family: Hippocrateaceae Life form: Climbing shrub Distribution: Barddhaman. 487. Salacia chinensis L. ( 1763). Common name: Madhu Phal 497. Ventilago madraspatana Gaertn. Life form: Straggling or climbing (1788). shrub Common name: Rakta pita Habitat: River banks of the Life form: Large woody climber Sunderbans, river hedges or shrubby on small Habitat: Very rare, occasionally forest belt climbing on vill. Thickets Distribution: 24 Parganas Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Dakkhin Barasat). ( Herobhanga/Dhosha). 498. Ziziphus apetala Hook.f. ex Lawson Family: Rhamnaceae Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. 488. Berchemia flavescens (Wall.) Brongn. 499. Ziziphus funiculosa Buch.-Ham. ex Life form: Climbing shrub Lawson Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Scrambling shrub Distribution: North West Bengal. 489. B. floribunda (Wall.) Brongn. Life form: Climbing shrub Distribution: Darjiling. 500. Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. (1789). Common name: Kul Life form: Small medium tree 490. Gouania napalensis Wall. Habitat: Shrubberies Life form: Climbing shrub Distribution:Kolkata,Haora,Murshidabad,Bard Distribution: Darjiling. dhaman,Birbhum,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Koch Bihar,Maldah,Nadia,Puruliya, 24 Parganas 491. G. tiliaefolia Lam. ( Ghoshpur/Kult),Medinipur,Bankura,Dinajpu Life form: Climbing shrub r. Distribution: Bankura, Haora, Jalpaiguri. 501. Ziziphus nummularia (Burm.f.) Wight & 492. Hovenia dulcis var. acerba (Lindl.) Arn. Sengupta & Safui Life form: Bushy shrub Life form: Tree Distribution: Puruliya. Distribution: Darjiling. 502. Ziziphus oenoplia (L.) Miller (1768) Common name: Siakul’ or ‘Bikul 493. Rhamnus napalensis (Wall.) Lawson Life form: Straggling or climbing Life form: Tree shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Shrubberies, roadside thickets, railway tracts, dry waste lands 494. Rhamnus purpureus Edgw. Distribution:Puruliya,Hugli,Haora, 24 Distribution:Darjiling. Parganas (Masjidbati, Gari),Medinipur,Kolkata,Barddhaman. 495. Rhamnus virgatus Roxb. Life form: Shrub or small tree 503. Ziziphus rugosa Lam. Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub or small tree219 Distribution: Darjiling, Bankura, Puruliya. Garia/Champahati).504. Zizyphus xylopyrus (Retz.) Willd. 514. Cissus adnata Roxb. (1820). Life form: Small tree Life form: Large climber Distribution: Darjiling, Barddhaman, Habitat: Rare in shrubberies & Puruliya hedges Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Gari, saktinagar). Family: Vitaceae 515. Cissus assamica (Lawson) Craib Life form: Woody climber 505. Ampelocissus barbata (Wall.) Planch. Life form: Woody climber Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri 516. Cissus javana DC. 506. Ampelocissus latifolia (Roxb.) Planch. Life form: Climber (1884). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Govila Life form: Climber 517. Cissus heyneana (Wight & Arn.) Habitat: Hedges & shrubberies Planch. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Hasanabad). Life form: Climber Distribution: Haora. 507. Ampelocissus nervosa (Lawson) Planch. Life form: Climber 518. Cissus quadrangularis L. (1767). Distribution: Darjiling. Common name: Harjora Life form: Fleshy cactus like habit 508. Ampelocissus sikkimensis (Laws.) Planch. Habitat: Hedges & shrubberies Habitat: Shruby climber Distribution:Koch Bihar,Kolkata,Medinipur, Distribution:Darjiling. 24 Parganas ( Cannin),Haora,Hugli,Birbhum509. Ampelocissus tomentosa (Roth) Planch. Murshidabad,Maldah,Barddhaman,Nadia,Dina Life form: Climber jpur,Jalpaiguri. Distribution: Bankura, Barddhaman, Jalpaiguri. 519. Cissus repanda Vahl. Life form: Woody climber 511. Cayratia geniculata (Blume) Gagnep. Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri, West Life form: Climber Dinajpur. Distribution: Darjiling. 520. Cissus repens Lam. 512. Cayratia japonica (Thunb.) Gagn. (1911). Life form: Climber Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Habitat: Waste lands & vill. Shrubberies 521. Cissus spectabilis (Kurz) Planch. Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Sagar Islands). Life form: Scandent shrub Distribution: North West Bengal. 513. Cayratia pedata (Lam.) Juss. ex Gagnep. (1910). 522. Cissus trifolia (L.) Domin. Common name: Goali Lata Common name: Amal Lata Life form: Large, weak climber Life form: Large creeping or twining Distribution: 24 Parganas ( South shrub220 Habitat: Thickets & hedges 532. Tetrastigma rumicispermum (Laws.) Planch. Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Diamond Life form: Shruby climber Harbour). Distribution:Darjiling.523. Cissus vitiginea L. 533. Tetrastigma serrulatum (Roxb.) Planch. Life form: Scandent shrub Life form: Shruby climber Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.524. Parthenocissus semicordata (Wall.) 534. Vitis vinifera L. ( 1753). Planch. Common name: Angur Life form: Climber Life form: Large woody climber Distribution: Darjiling. Habitat: Occasionally cultivated Distribution: 24 Parganas 525. Tetrastigma angustifolium (Roxb.) ( Nilgunge/Barrackpore). Planch. Life form: Climber Family: Leeaceae Distribution: Darjiling, Koch Bihar. 535. Leea alata Edgew Life form: Shrub 526. Tetrastigma bracteolatum (Wall.) Distribution: Darjiling. Planch. Life form: Woody climber Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri, Koch 536. Leea aquatica L. Mant. ( 1767). Common name: Kak-jhanga Bihar. Life form: Shrub Habitat: Rarely found in the waste 527. Tetrastigma corymbosum Lons. lands Life form: Climbing shrub Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Salipur/Baruipur). Distribution: Darjiling. 537. Leea compactiflora Kurz 528. Tetrastigma dubium (Laws.) Planch. Life form: Shrub Life form: Shruby climber Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 538. Leea crispa Royen ex L. (1767). 529. Tetrastigma leucostaphyllum (Dennst.) Life form: Shrub Alston ex Mabb. Habitat: Rarely found in waste lands Life form: Large Climber & vill. Shrubberies Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Distribution:Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Murshida bad,Koch Bihar,Maldah,Kolkata,Medinipur, 530. Tetrastigma planicaule (Hook.f.) 24 Parganas(Champadalia/Barasat),Haora. Gagnep. Life form: Climber 539. Leea guineensis G. Don. Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub or small tree Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri, Haora. 531. Tetrastigma obtectum (Wall. ex Laws.) Planch. ex Franch. 540. Leea indica (Burm.f.) Merr. (1919) Life form: Shruby climber Common name: Kukur jhiwa Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Santoshpur).221 Distribution: 24 Parganas 541. Leea macrophylla Roxb. Ex Hornem. ( 1813). (Subuddhipur/Baruipur). Common name: Dhol Sumudra Life form: Herb 549. Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jacq. (1760). Habitat: Dry waste places, road sides Common name: Belati-mehedi & railway tracks Life form: Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Jugdia/Benipur). Habitat: Hedges, found in wild Distribution: 24 Parganas (Dhablat/Sagar Family: Sapindaceae Islands).542. Allophylus serratus DC. 550. Erioglossum rubiginosum (Roxb.) Life form: Shrub, rarely epiphyte Blume Habitat: Hedges, vill. Thickets Life form: Tree Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Doodhoi). Distribution: North Bengal.543. Allophylus chartaceous (Kurz) Radk. 551. Litchi chinensis Sonner. (1782). Life form: Shrub or small tree Common name: Litchi Distribution: North Bengal. Life form: Tree Habitat: Commonly cultivated Distribution:Nadia,Kolkata,Jalpaiguri,Medinip 544. Allophylus triphyllus (Burm. f.) Merr. (1921). ur, 24 Parganas ( Dhanyakuria),Maldah, Life form: Shrub SouthDinajpur, , Koch Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies Bihar,Haora,Murshidabad,Hugli,Puruliya. Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Magrahat).545. Aphania danura (Voigt.) Radlk. 552. Spaindus laurifolia Vahl (1794). Life form: Shrub or small tree Common name: Bara Rita Life form: Tree Distribution: 24-Parganas. Habitat: Barely cultivated Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Harinbari/Sagar 546. Aphania rubra Radlk. Islands). Life form: Shrub or small tree Distribution: North Bengal. 553. Sapindus mukorossi Gaertn. (1788). Common name: Etaphal 547. Cardiospermum halicacabum L.( 1753). Life form: Medium sized tree Common name: Shibjhul Habitat: Planted in gardens, very Life form: Climbing herb rare Habitat: Waste shady places, Distribution: 24 Parganas (Kestopur). climbing on bushes Distribution: 554. Schleichera oleosa (Lour.) Oken. (1841). Dinajpur,Medinipur,Puruliya,Hugli,Nadia,Koc Common name: Kusum h Bihar,Haora,Kolkata, Life form: Large tree Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas ( Bhebe Habitat: Roadside tree, also in wild Choumatha/Basirhat),Maldah,Barddhaman. Distribution:Medinipur,South 24 Pgs. (Namkhana),Nadia,Puruliya, 548. Dimocarpus longan Lour. (1790). ,Dinajpur,Maldah,Jalpaiguri, Common name: Ashphal Hugli,Haora,Koch Bihar,Kolkata. Life form: Tall tree Habitat: Planted in orchards Family: Anacardiaceae222 Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. 555. Anacardium occidentale L. (1753). Common name: Kajubadam 563. Rhus chinensis Mill. Life form: Exotic, cultivated small tree Life form: Small tree or shrub Habitat: Rarely cultivated in the Distribution: Darjiling. orchards, grows well in saline soil of coastal region 564. Rhus hookerii Sahni & Bahadur Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Harinbari/Sagar Life form: Tree Island),Medinipur. Distribution:Darjiling . 556. Buchanania lazan Spreng. Life form: Tree 565. Rhus javanica L. Distribution: Bankura, Birbhum, Life form: Tree Barddhaman, Puruliya. Distribution:Darjiling.557. Choerospondias axillaris (Roxb.) 566. Rhus succedanea L. Burtt & Hill Life form: Tree Life form: Small tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. 567. Semecarpus anacardium L.f. (1781). Common name: Bhola’ 558. Dobinea vulgaris Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Life form: Moderate tree Life form: Shrub Habitat: Rarely in the vill thickets Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Puruliya,Koch Bihar,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Banku 559. Drimycarpus racemosus (Roxb.) ra, 24 Parganas (Tapsia/,Bantala),Medinipur Hook.f. . Life form: Large tree 568. Spondias cytherea Sonn. (1782). Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Common name: Belati Amra’ Life form: Medium tree Habitat: Commonly planted in the 560. Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merrill (1939). orchards Common name: Jiyal Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Nabagram). Life form: Small tree Habitat: Shrubberies & scrub jungles Distribution: 24 Parganas 569. Spondias pinnata (L. f.) Kurz (1875). ( Dewanganj),Medinipur, Bankura, Birbhum, Common name: Amra Hugli, Haora, Puruliya Life form: Large tree Habitat: Medium tree Distribution:Hugli,Koch 561. Mangifera indica L. (1753). Bihar,Barddhaman,Nadia,Haora,Maldah,Birbh Common name: Aam um,Jalpaiguri,Puruliya, Life form: Large tree 24Parganas (S) Habitat: Commonly planted (Malancha/Minakhan),Medinipur,Kolkata,Mu Distribution:Dinajpur,Kolkata,Koch rshidabad,Bankura,Dinajpur. Bihar,Bankura,Barddhaman,Murshidabad,Mal dah,Haora,Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Birbhum,Puruliya, 24 Parganas ( Padmapukur),Hugli,Medinipur. Family: Moringaceae562. Pegia nitida Colebr. 570. Moringa oleifera Lam. Life form: Scandent shrub Common name: Sajina or Nadna223 Distribution:Nadia,Koch Murshidabad,Hugli,Birbhum,Jalpaiguri,Kolkat Bihar,Bankura,Kolkata,Puruliya,Jalpaiguri,Ma a,Haora. ldah,Murshidabad, Dinajpur, Haora,Hugli,Birbhum,Medinipur. 577. Amphicarpaea ferruginea Benth. Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Leguminosae Subfamily Papilionoideae 578. Arachis hypogaea L. ( 1753 ). Common name: Mat-Kalai or China Badam 571. Abrus fruticulosus Wall. ex Wight & Arn. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Twiner Habitat: Cultivated in sandy soil Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution:Murshidabad,Birbhum,Nadia,Ban kura,Haora,Jalpaiguri,Medinipur,Koch 572. Abrus precatorius L. (1767 ). Bihar,Hugli, Common name: Kunch Dinajpur,Kolkata, 24 Parganas (N) Life form: Twining shrub (Barrackpore),Maldah,Barddhaman. Habitat: Dry waste lands Distribution:Medinipur,South 24 Pgs. 579. Butea monosperma (Lam. ) Taub. ( 1894). (Sasan,/ Baruipur),Koch Common name: Palas Bihar,Nadia,Barddhaman,Hugli, Life form: Small or moderate sized tree Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Haora. Habitat: Planted along roads in open dry deciduous forests, also planted as avenue 573. Aeschynomene aspera L. ( 1753 ). trees. Common name: Bhat Sola or Phul Sola Distribution:Bankura,Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman, Life form: Aquatic stout shrub Maldah,Puruliya,Birbhum,Koch Bihar,Nadia, Habitat: Ditches, jhills, roadside Murshidabad, Kolkata, 24 Parganas (S)(Budge canals Budge),Medinipur,Haora. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Falta, majerhat). 580. Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp. (1900). 574. Aeschynomene indica L. (1753). Common name: Arhar Common name: Sola Life form: Shrub Life form: Shrub like annual herb Habitat: Cultivated Habitat: Rice fields, water logged Distribution:Kolkata,Jalpaiguri,Birbhum,Murs places & near canals hidabad,Puruliya, 24 Parganas ( Harinbari/ Distribution: Sagar Island), Medinipur,Haora,Hugli,Murshidabad, 24 Medinipur,Dinajpur,Haora,Koch Parganas (S)(Sarberia/Gocharan),Nadia. Bihar,Maldah,Barddhaman,Hugli,Nadia,Bank ura. 575. Alysicarpus bupleurifolius (L.) DC. (1825). Common name: Pan-nata 581. Cajanus scarabaeoides Benth.(Maesa) Life form: Diffuse herb Common name: Banar Kalai Habitat: Moist grassy places Life form: Biannual herb Distribution:24 Parganas (N) ( Ichhapur). Habitat: Waste places & clayey soil Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)( Baruipur). 576. Alysicarpus vaginalis (L.) DC. ( 1825 ). Life form: Herb 582. Canavalia catharticapetit Thoar. (1813). Habitat: Open pastures Life form: Large twiner Distribution:Medinipur,Dinajpur,Koch Bihar, Habitat: Riverbanks of Sunderbans 24 Parganas (S) areas; a littoral species ( Fultala/Baruipur),Nadia,Maldah, Distribution:Darjiling,Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri224 ,Nadia, 24 Parganas (S)( Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) ( Dewangunj, Mollakhali/ Sunderbans), Koch Barrackpore). Bihar,Haora. 589. Crotalaria acicularis Buch.-Ham. ex Benth. 583. Canavalia ensiformis DC. (1825). Life form: Annual herb Common name: Makhan sim Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Large climber Habitat: Cultivated 590. Crotalaria anagyroides Kunth Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Bararu on the Life form: Undershrub Public Garden). Distribution:Darjiling .584. Canavalia lineata DC. ( 1825 ). 591. Crotalaria ferruginea Graham ex Benth. Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Seaface of the Sunderbans Distribution:Darjiling . area; a littoral species Distribution:Murshidabad,Koch Bihar,Maldah, 24 Parganas( Sagar 592. Crotalaria juncea L. ( 1753). Islands),Dinajpur. Common name: San Life form: Annual shrub Habitat: Roadside hedges, or 585. Cicer arietinum L. (1753). cultivated Common name: Chhola Distribution:Maldah.Nadia, 24 Parganas Life form: Annual herb ( Beliachandi, Habitat: Cultivated Madhyampur),Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Koch Distribution:Jalpaiguri,South 24 Pgs. Bihar. (Diamond Harbour).586. Clitoria ternatea L. (1753). 593. Crotalaria mysorensis Roth ( 1821). Common name: Aprajita Life form: Shrub Life form: Climbing annual herb Habitat: Waste lands & railway Habitat: Hedges & thickets tracts Distribution: South 24 Pgs( Jugdia, south Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) (Diamond Garia). Harbour).587. Crotalaria alata Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb. (1825). 594. Crotalaria pallida Aiton ( 1789 ). Life form: Undershrub Common name: Ban Can Habitat: Roadside hedges, sides of Life form: Under shrub raillines Habitat: Waysides, railway tracts, Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Birbhum, 24 Parganas waste lands ( Baharu/ on the railway tracts), Haora, Hugli, Distribution:South 24 Pgs. ( Sitakundu/ South Dinajpur, Baruipur) . Barddhaman,Maldah,Nadia,Medinipur,Koch Bihar, Kolkata, Puruliya, 595. Crotalaria prostrata Roxb. ( 1814 ). Murshidabad,Bankura. Common name: Chhota jhunjhan Life form: Annual herb 588. Crotalaria albida Heyne ex Roth ( 1821). Habitat: Dry waste lands & road Common name: Atasi sides Life form: Under shrub Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) (Subuddhipur/ Habitat: Rare on the shaddy area & Baruipur). on the garden edges225 596. Crotalaria retusa L. ( 1753 ). 603. Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. ( 1814 ). Common name: Bhil-jhanjhan Common name: Sisu Life form: Under shrub Life form: Tree Habitat: Railway tracts, road side Habitat: Roadsides, railway stations, thickets & vill. Scrubs vill. Gardens Distribution:Haora,Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Na Distribution:Murshidabad,Barddhaman,Malda dia, 24 Parganas (N)( Ichhapur),Koch h,Nadia,Darjiling,Puruliya,Hugli,Haora,Koch Bihar,Hugli, Maldah. Bihar, Bankura,Birbhum ,Dinajpur,Medinipur,Kolkata, 24 Parganas 597. Crotalaria sessiliflora L. ( Mallickpore/ near rail gate), Jalpaiguri. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 604. Dalbergia spinosa Roxb. ( 1832 ). Common name: Chulia kanta 598. Crotalaria spectabilis Roth (1821). Life form: Shrub Common name: Pipali jhanjhan Habitat: Many in Sunderban area, on Life form: Herb-undershrub the dense thickets Habitat: Pasture lands & road side Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) (Kakdeep/ river thickets banks),Medinipur. Distribution:South 24 Pgs. ( Piyalinagar/ Baruipur). 605. Derris indica (Lam. ) Bennett (1970). Common name: Karanja 599. Crotalaria verrucosa L. (1753). Life form: Tree Common name: Bansan or Jhunjhun Habitat: Near the canals, old Life form: Herb gardens, waste places & hedges Habitat: Rarely found on the Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Koch grasslands & waste places Bihar,Murshidabad,Kolkata,Medinipur,Hugli, Distribution: 24 Parganas ( arinbari/ Sagar South 24 Pgs.(Baruipur, Gosaba), Islands). Barddhaman,Haora,Nadia,Bankura,Maldah,Bi rbhum, Dinajpur. 600. Dalbergia lanceolata L. f. (1781). Common name: Chakmedia 606. Derris scandens Benth. (1860). Life form: Tree Common name: Noalata Habitat: Planted on the road sides Life form: Large climber Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Falta). Habitat: Very common on the bushes, near the scrub jungles of river sides of Sunderbans 601. Dalbergia latifolia Roxb. (1799). Distribution:Medinipur, South 24 Pgs. Common name: Swet-sal (Gosaba, Bhangankhali). Life form: Tree Habitat: Planted on the road sides 607. Derris trifoliata Lour. (1790). Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Common name: Pan-Lata ( Majerhat),Maldah,Murshidabad,Barddhaman Life form: Shrub Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar, Hugli,Nadia.Haora. Habitat: River banks of Sunderbans Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Diamond 602. Dalbergia melanoxylon Guill. & Perr. (1830). Harbour). Life form: Small tree Habitat: Very rare, avenue tree 608. Desmodium elegans DC. Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) (Champahati). Life form: Tree226 Distribution:Darjiling . 617. Lablab purpureus L. ( 1753 ). Common name: Sim 609. Desmodium gangeticum (L.) DC. (1825). Life form: Twining shrub Common name: Salpani Habitat: Cultivated Life form: Under shrub Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Bhangankhali). Habitat: Bushes & waste places, orchards, railway tracts 618. Dumasia villosa DC. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Baruipur, Life form: Climber Canning),Jalpaiguri. Distribution:Darjiling.610. Desmodium heterocarpon (L.)DC. 619. Erythrina arborescens Roxb. Life form: Shrub Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.611. Desmodium laxiflorum DC. 620. Erythrina fusca Lour. ( 1790). Life form: Undershrub Common name: Harikakra Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Small tree Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies & road 612. Desmodium multiflorum DC. sides Life form: Shrub Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Subhashgram). Distribution:Darjiling. 621. Erythrina stricta Roxb. 613. Desmodium sequex Wall. Life form: Tree Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 622. Erythrina variegata L. (1754). 614. Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC. (1824). Common name: Palita Mandar Common name: Koddalia Life form: Moderate sized tree Life form: Herb Habitat: Planted in the gardens Habitat: Grass lands, railway tracts, Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Haroa, road side hedge Malancha). Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Baruipur, Dandirhat). 623. Flemingia macrophylla ( Willd. ) Prain ex Merrill ( 1910 ). 615. Desmodium umbellatum DC. ( 1825). Common name: Bara salphan Life form: Shrub Life form: Shrub Habitat: Rarely on the river banks of Habitat: Hedges & thickets Sundarbans Distribution:Bankura,Medinipur,Puruliya,Sout Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Kakdwip). h 24 Pgs. ( Jugdia-Benipur),Jalpaiguri, Dinajpur, Koch 616. Dolichos biflorus L. (1753). Bihar,Barddhaman,Murshidabad,Maldah,Hugl i. Common name: Kuratta kalai Life form: Twining under shrub Habitat: Cultivated pulse crop 624. Gliricida sepium ( Jacq. ) Kunth ex Steud. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Santoshpur/ (1840). near Budge Budge). Life form: Tree Habitat: Cultivated227 Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Harinbari/ sagar Bihar,Murshidabad,Birbhum,Haora. Islands). 631. Lathyrus aphaca L. (1753). 625. Glycine max (L.) Merrill (1917). Common name: Jangli-Matur Common name: Soya Bean Life form: Annual herb Life form: Trailing or sub-erect herb Habitat: Waste lands Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Koch Bihar Distribution:Haora ,Dinajpur,Bankura,Koch ,Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,Darjiling,South 24 Pgs. Bihar,,Maldah,Murshidabad,Barddhaman,Nad (Narendrapur/ R.K.M. Ashram). ia, Puruliya,Birbhum,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Medinip 632. Lathyrus sativus L. (1753). ur, 24 Parganas (S)(Narendrapur/ public Common name: Khensari garden),Hugli. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Cultivated in low lands 626. Indigofera linnaei Ali (1711). Distribution:Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas Life form: Herb (Maradhat/ Baruipur),Nadia, Habitat: Wastelands, roadsides. Dinajpur,Maldah, Murshidabad, Jalpaiguri. Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Subhasgram). 633. Lens culinaris Medikus ( 1787 ). 627. Indigofera linifolia (L. f.) Retz. (1786). Common name: Masur Common name: Bhangra Life form: Annual herb Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Cultivated in low lands or Habitat: Waste grassy places, rice fields associated with Alysicarpus sp. Distribution:Jalpaiguri.Dinajpur , 24 Parganas Distribution: 24 Parganas (N)(Dum Dum (S)( Falta),Koch Bihar. Cant., Sodpur). 634. Medicago lupulina L. (1753). 628. Indigofera stachyodes Lindl. Life form: Herb Life form: Shrub Habitat: Waste lands Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: 24 Parganas .629. Indigofera sumatrana Gaertn. (1876). 635. Medicago polymorpha L. var.vulgaris (Benth.) Common name: Nil Shinn. Life form: Shrub Common name: Maina Habitat: Dry waste lands, roadsides Life form: Herb & railway tracks Habitat: Waste lands Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Santoshpur/ Distribution: Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Dinajpur Budge Budge). ,Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas.630. Indigofera tinctoria L. (1753). 636. Melilotus alba Medikus (1797). Common name: Nil Common name: Safed Ban Methi Life form: Shrub Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Cultivated, railway tracts & Habitat: Waste lands moist waste lands & roadsides Distribution:Medinipur, 24 Parganas Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Salipur/ Baruipur, ,Nadia Kadampur),Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Medinipur,Mal ,Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Murshidabad,Mal dah, Nadia dah, Koch Bihar Hugli, Haora, Birbhum, ,Dinajpur,Hugli,,Barddhaman,Koch Barddhaman.228 24 Parganas (N) 637. Melilotus indica (L.) All. (1785). (Shyamnagar),Haora,Nadia,Hugli, Bankura,Koch Common name: .Ban Methi Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman Life form: Annual herb ,Dinajpur,Medinipur. Habitat: Waste lands Distribution: 24 Parganas ,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Darjiling,Nadia,Haora,Koch 645. Piptanthus nepalensis (Hook.) Bihar. Sweet Life form: Shrub 638. Millettia peguensis Ali. (1968). Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Medium sized tree Habitat: 646. Pisum arvense L. (1753). Distribution:Medinipur,24 Pgs (Brace Common name: Matar Bridge),Kolkata,Koch Life form: Annual herb Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Bankura. Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Medinipur, 24 639. Milletia pulchra (Benth.) Kurz Parganas Life form: Shruby climber ,Dinajpur,Haora,Bankura,,Hugli,Koch Bihar, Barddhaman, Distribution:Darjiling. Nadia,Murshidabad,Birbhum,Maldah.640. Mucuna macrocarpa Wall. ex Baker Pisum sativum L. (1753). Life form: Liana 647. Common name: Kabuli Matar Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Cultivated 641. Pachyrrhizus angulatus Rich. ex DC. (1825). Distribution:Murshidabad,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Ba Common name: Sankaalu rddhaman,Nadia, Dinajpur, 24 Parganas (S) Life form: Liana (Garia, Habitat: Cultivated in vill. Garden Shibrampur),Darjiling,Bankura,Medinipur,Kol Distribution:Kolkata, South 24 kata,Puruliya,,Haora,,Maldah,Koch Bihar Pgs(Subuddhipur/Baruipur), Haora, Birbhum. Medinipur. 648. Crotalaria cytisoides Roxb. 642. Parochetus communis Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Life form: Shrub Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution:Darjiling. 649. Psophocarpus tetragonolobus DC. (1825). 643. Phaseolus aureus Roxb. (1814). Common name: Chara-koni-seem Common name: Sona Mung Life form: Shrub Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Very rare on the vill. Habitat: Cultivated Shrubberies Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Brace Bridge). Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) (Shibrampur/Thakurpukur). 644. Phaseolus vulgaris L. ( 1753). Common name: Bakla 650. Cullen corylifolia (L.) Medikus Life form: Annual herb Common name: Barachi Habitat: Cultivated Life form: Shrub Distribution:Birbhum,Maldah,Murshidabad, Distribution:Koch Bihar, Dinajpur,, 24 229 Parganas Bihar,Maldah,Jalpaiguri. ,Haora,Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Medinipur, Maldah,Bankura,Birbhum,,Hugli,Nadia,Mursh 658. Sesbania roxburghii Merrill (1909). idabad . Life form: Annual shrub Habitat: Cultivated 651. Pterocarpus indicus Willd. (1800). Distribution: 24 Parganas, Haora, Life form: Tree Murshidabad, Hugli Distribution: 24 Parganas . 659. Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr. (1912). 652. Rhynchosia aurea DC. (1825). Common name: Jainti Life form: Herb Life form: Shrub Habitat: Waste lands, road side Habitat: Cultivated hedges & vill. Thickets Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Sarisha/ Distribution: 24 Parganas Diamond Harbour). (Subuddhipur/Baruipur). 660. Shuteria vestita Wight & Arn. (1834). 653. Rhynchosia minima (L.) DC. (1825). Life form: Woody shrub Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Dry waste lands, thickets & Habitat: Hedges & thickets of the railway tracks villages Distribution: 24 Parganas (N)(Dum Dum Distribution:24 Parganas (N) ( Shyamnagar), Cantt.). Haora. 661. Shuteria involucrata (Wall.) Wight et Arn. 654. Sesbania aegyptica Poir. (1806). Life form: Climber Common name: Jayanti Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Large shrub Habitat: Village thickets & road side 662. Smithia sensitiva Ait. (1789). hedges Common name: Nala Kashina Distribution:Nadia, 24 Parganas (N) Life form: Herb (Naihati),Barddhaman,Hugli,Murshidabad,Ha Habitat: Very rare on the roadside ora,Dinajpur, waste lands & thickets Jalpaiguri, Kolkata,,Maldah,,Medinipur Distribution:Maldah,Medinipur,Haora,Nadia, . Barddhaman,Koch Bihar, Jalpaiguri, Murshidabad, ,Dinajpur,24 Parganas (S) 655. Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W.F. Wright ( Salipur/ Baruipur),Kolkata. Life form: Annual, aquatic shrub Distribution: 24 Parganas , Hugli, Haora. 663. Smithia ciliata Royle Life form: Annual herb 656. Sesbania cannabina (Retz.) Poir. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual under shrub Distribution:Kolkata, 24 Parganas ,Medinipur. 664. Tephrosia candida DC. (1825). Common name: Bangara 657. Sesbania grandiflora Pers. Life form: Small shrub Common name: Agati’ or ‘Bak Habitat: Moist places, near gardens Life form: Small tree & railway tracks Habitat: Cultivated Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Dhakuria). Distribution:Murshidabad, 24 Parganas ( Harinbari/ Sagar Islands),Koch 230 665. Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers. (1807). grown on the waste lands Common name: Ban-Nil Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Life form: Herb (Shibrampur/Thakurpukur). Habitat: Dry, open places, on the waste grounds, railway tracks 672. Ulex europeus L. Distribution:Bankura,Birbhum,Murshidabad, Life form: Shrub Hugli,Koch Bihar , Barddhaman, Habitat: Dinajpur,Maldah, Distribution:Darjiling . Jalpaiguri,Puruliya,Medinipur, 24 Parganas (S) (Fultala/ Baruipur),Kolkata, Haora,Nadia. 673. Uraria picta (Jacq.) Desv. (1813). Common name: Sankar-jata 666. Tephrosia villosa (L.) Pers. ( 1807 ). Life form: Under shrub Life form: Herb Habitat: Waste shady places Habitat: Village shrubberies & Distribution: 24 Parganas (Nurpore). railway tracks Distribution: 24 Parganas (N)(Shyamnagar). 674. Vicia fava L. (1753). Life form: Annual herb 667. Termnus labialis (L. f. ) Spreng. Habitat: Cultivated ( 1826 ). Distribution:Puruliya,Kolkata,South 24 Pgs.( Life form: Herb Sarisha/ Diamond Harbour), Bankura, Habitat: Rarely found on the vill. Jalpaiguri, Maldah,Haora,Nadia,Birbhum Shrubberies ,Dinajpur,Koch Bihar,Medinipur. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Kachuberia/ Sagar Islands), Haora. 675. Vicia hirsuta (L.) Gray (1821). Common name: Chana 668. Trifolium dubium Sibth. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Perennial herb Habitat: Cultivated Habitat: Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Distribution:Darjiling. (Subuddhipur/Baruipur). 669. Trifolium repens L. 676. Vicia sativa L. (1753). Life form: Herb Common name: Ankari Distribution: Darjiling Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Cultivated fields & moist 670. Trigonella corniculata L. waste grounds Common name: Piring Distribution:Birbhum, 24 Parganas ( N) Life form: Herb (Madhyamgram). Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Puruliya, 24 Parganas 677. Vicia tetrasperma (L) Schr. (Champahati, Chemagari), Birbhum, Nadia, Life form: Climber Kolkata, Bankura, Maldah, Medinipur, Habitat: Dinajpur, Haora,Barddhaman,Koch Distribution:Darjiling. Bihar,Murshidabad,Hugli.678. Vigna aconitifolia (Jacq.) Marechal 671. Trigonella foenum-graecum L. (1753). ( 1969 ). Common name: Methi Common name: Kheri Life form: Herb Life form: Herb Habitat: Cultivated & rarely as self- Habitat: Grassy lands, climbing on 231 large bushy grasses Habitat: Avenue tree Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Dhopagachi/ Distribution:Bankura,Nadia,Koch Baruipur). Bihar,Darjiling,Barddhaman,Birbhum,Maldah, Kolkata, Murshidabad, 24 Pgs(N) 679. Vigna sinensis (L.) Savi. ex Hassk. (1844). (Chital/Basirhat),Medinipur,Jalpaiguri . Common name: Barbati Life form: Herb 685. Bauhinia tomentosa L. (1753). Habitat: Cultivated Common name: Kanchan Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Champahati). Life form: Shrub Habitat: Planted as ornamental in 680. Vigna trilobata (L.) Verdc. (1968). gardens Common name: Jangi kalai or Rakhal kalai Distribution: 24 Parganas, ( Rabindra Life form: Herb Sarobar)/Kolkata). Habitat: Rarely cultivated, waste lands or paddy fields 686. Bauhinia varigata L. (1753). Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Dhap Dhapi, Common name: Swet Kanchan Taki). Life form: Small tree Habitat: Avenue tree in road sides & 681. Wisteria chinensis DC. railway stations Life form: Liana Distribution:Kolkata,Medinipur,Haora,Bankur Distribution:Darjiling. a,Jalpaiguri,Maldah,Birbhum,Hugli,Murshida bad,Dinajpur, Koch Bihar,Barddhaman,Nadia, 24 Parganas (N) (Titagarh) . Family: Leguminosae Subfamily: Caesalpiniaceae 687. Caesalpinia coriaria (Jacq.) Willd. (1799). 682. Amherstia nobilis Wall. (1829). Common name: Dii-dii Life form: Low tree Life form: Tree Habitat: cultivated / grown as an Habitat: Planted as ornamental in the ornamental tree gardens Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) (Dum Dum Distribution:Haora,Hugli,Murshidabad,Bardd Cantt.), Haora. haman ,Dinajpur,KochBihar,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata, Medinipur, 24 Parganas ( Ram 688. Caesalpinia bonduc (L.) Roxb. ( 1818). Nagar/Metiabruz),Maldah. Common name: Nata Karanja Life form: Scrambling vine 683. Bauhinia acuminata L. ( 1753 ). Habitat: Hedges & thickets, open waste lands Common name: Kanchan Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Kolkata, 24 Life form: Large shrub or small tree Parganas(Surjyapur/Raidhighi),Puruliya,Medi Habitat: Road sides nipur,Birbhum ,Haora Distribution: Dinajpur,South 24 Pgs. Murshidabad,Koch Bihar,Nadia. (Padmapukur/Baruipur),Kolkata,Medinipur,H aora,,, Hugli,Birbhum,Maldah,Murshidabad, Darjiling,Koch 689. Caesalpinia crista L. (1753). Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Nadia. Common name: Shingri Lata Life form: Climber 684. Bauhinia purpurea L. (1753). Habitat: Littoral forests & hedges or thickts Common name: Rakta Kanchan Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Kapilanda Ashram Life form: Medium sized tree232 / Sagar Islands). 696. Cassia obtusifolia L. (1753). 690. Caesalpinia decapetala (Roth) Alston (1931). Common name: Chakunda Life form: Large straggling shrub Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Hedges of the villages Habitat: Weed, often mixed with C. Distribution:South 24 Pgs. tora ( Lakshmikantapur). Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Mollakhali).691. Cassia absus L. (1753). 697. Cassia occidentalis L. (1753). Common name: Chakan Common name: Kalkasunda Life form: Annual herb Life form: Under shrub Habitat: Waste lands Habitat: Road sides, railway lines & Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)( Ghoshpur/ near moist waste places. Kulti). Distribution:Darjiling ,Nadia,Barddhaman,Ko ch 692. Cassia alata L. (1753). Bihar,Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Bankura,Murshidaba Common name: Dadmardan d, Kolkata, Puruliya, 24 Parganas ( Dhosha Life form: Small shrub Chandaneswar),,Medinipur,Haora. Habitat: Village scrub jungle Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) 698. Cassia pumila Lam. (1784). (Shymnagar),Birbhum,Murshidabad,Haora,Jal Common name: Chota aura paiguri,Nadia,Koch Bihar, Life form: Stout herb Kolkata,Puruliya,Medinipur. Habitat: Open fields or under shades of trees 693. Cassia auriculata L. (1753). Distribution: 24 Parganas Common name: Tarwar ( Bireshwarpur/Lakshmikantapur). Life form: Tall shrub Habitat: Planted or escape near 699. Cassia siamea Lam. (1785). gardens Life form: Medium sized tree Distribution:Koch Bihar, Barddhaman, 24 Habitat: Avenue tree near lakes & Parganas( Dhopagachi),Jalpaiguri,Hugli. gardens Distribution:Murshidabad 694. Cassia fistula L. (1753). ,Dinajpur,Nadia,Barddhaman,Maldah,Haora,, Common name: Bandar Lati or Sandal Bankura,Koch Bihar, Life form: Medium tree Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Darjiling,Birbhum,Medinip Habitat: Village scrub-jungles, ur,Puruliya, 24 Parganas( Naihati),Hugli. thickets etc. Distribution:Birbhum,Koch Bihar, Bankura 700. Cassia sophora L. (1753). ,Hugli, Jalpaiguri, Nadia, Murshidabad, Common name: Kalkasunda Barddhaman, Medinipur, Kolkata, 24 Life form: Small shrub Parganas (S) (Gosaba),24 Parganas (N) Habitat: Waste lands, sides of roads (Naihati),Maldah. & railway tracts Distribution:Darjiling,Kolkata, 24 695. Cassia nodosa Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb. ( 1814 ). Parganas( Piyalinagar/Baruipur),Puruliya,Med Life form: Tree inipur,Barddhaman, Koch Habitat: Avenue tree Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Birbhum,Hugli,Murshidabad, Distribution:Darjiling ,Dinajpur, 24 Parganas Maldah,Bankura, Dinajpur,Nadia,Haora. (N) (Champahati),Haora,Hugli,Birbhum.233 701. Cassia sophora var. purpurea (Edgw.) 706. Parkinsonia aculeata L. (1753). Voigt (1845). Common name: Bilati Kikar Common name: Lal Kalkashunda Life form: Small tree or shrub Life form: Shrub Habitat: Cultivated area Habitat: Road side waste lands, high Distribution:Birbhum,Medinipur,Puruliya,Hao cult. lands ra,Barddhaman,Bankura, 24 Parganas (S) Distribution:Hugli,Birbhum,Puruliya ,Haora, (Sunderbans). Dinajpur (N+S, ),Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Kolkata, Barddhaman,Murshidabad,Koch Bihar, 24 707. Peltophorum pterocarpum (DC.) Baker ex Parganas (Malatipur/near Dey Heyne (1927). Ganga),Medinipur,Bankura, Darjiling. Common name: Gul Mohar Life form: Tall tree Habitat: Planted as avenue tree 702. Cassia surattensis Burm. f. (1768). Distribution:24 Parganas (N) Life form: Large shrub or small tree ( Titagarh/Barrackpur),Bankura,Barddhaman, Habitat: grown as an ornamental Puruliya,Medinipur. Distribution:South 24 Pgs. ( Mazilpur/Joynagar), Haora. 708. Piliostigma malabaricus (Roxb.) Benth. (1852). 703. Cassia tora L. (1753). Common name: Amli or Karmai Common name: Chakunda Life form: Moderate sized tree Life form: Annual weed Habitat: Planted as avenue tree Habitat: Waste lands, railway tracts, Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Narendrapur). way sides Distribution:Bankura,Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman, Darjiling,Murshidabad,Kolkata, 24 Parganas ( 709. Caesalpinia pulcherrima L. (1753). Piyallinagar/Baruipur),Puruliya,Hugli,Birbhu Common name: Radha-Chura m,Haora,Nadia, Dinajpur,Koch Bihar,Maldah, Life form: Shrub Medinipur. Habitat: Planted as avenue tree Distribution: 24 ParganasJoygram/Minakhan),Hugli,Birbhum, 704. Delonix regia (Boj. ex Hook. ) Raf. Haora,Koch Bihar,Darjiling,Puruliya, ( 1836 ). Medinipur,Nadia ,Dinajpur. Common name: Krishnachura Life form: tree Habitat: Planted as ornamental 710. Saraca asoca (Roxb.) de wilde Distribution:Birbhum,Murshidabad,Koch Common name: Asoke Bihar,Maldah,,Haora,Barddhaman,Darjiling,N Life form: Low deliquescent tree adia, Habitat: Planted in the gardens or Dinajpur,Puruliya,Bankura,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,K lawns olkata,Medinipur, 24 Parganas ( Palta, Distribution:Barddhaman,Koch Naihati). Bihar,Nadia,Kolkata,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas (Gobindapur), Hugli, Murshidabad. 705. Mezoneuron cucullatum Wight & Arn. ( 1834 ). 711. Tamarindus indica L. (1753). Common name: Regi Common name: Tetul Life form: Liana Life form: Large tree Habitat: Moist evergreen forest Habitat: Planted in gardens or road Distribution: 24 Parganas. sides Distribution:Puruliya,Jalpaiguri,Nadia , 24 234 Parganas (Naihati),Kolkata College Campus). ,Maldah,Medinipur,Bankura, Murshidabad,Birbhum,Haora,Barddhaman,Hu 718. Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del. subsp. gli. indica (Benth.) Brenan Common name: Babul or Babla Family: Leguminosae Life form: Small or medium sized tree Subfamily: Mimosoideae Habitat: Village thickets, road sides, railway lines 712. Acacia auriculiformis A. Cunn. (1842). Distribution:Birbhum,Barddhaman, 24 Common name: Akashmoni Parganas (Brace Bridge),Bankura,Maldah, Life form: Medium unarmed tree Medinipur, Nadia,Haora, Murshidabad,Hugli. Habitat: ,, Distribution: 719. Acacia pennata (L.) Willd. Dinajpur,Birbhum,Barddhaman,Nadia,Kolkata Life form: Scan dent shrub ,Hugli,Darjiling, 24 Parganas Distribution: Jalpaiguri, Puruliya. (Rabindra Sarabar),Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Puruliya,Haora, Koch Bihar,Murshidabad,Bankura,Maldah. 720. Acacia polyacantha Willd. (1806). Common name: Sai-Kanta Life form: Small to medium tree 713. Acacia caesia (L. )Willd. Habitat: Hedges & thickets Life Form: Scandent shrub or woody Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Basanti). climber Distribution: Barddhaman, Hugli, 721. Acacia recurva Benth. (1842). Jalpaiguri, 24 Pgs, Puruliya. Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Kolkata).714. Acacia catechu L.f. Willd. ( 1806 ). 722. Acacia sinuata (Lour.) Merr. Common name: Khayer Life form: Climbing shrub Life form: Medium tree Distribution: North Bengal. Habitat: Village thickets & hedges Distribution:Birbhum,Bankura, 24 Parganas ( Garia),Puruliya 723. Acacia sphaerocephala Cham. & Schlecht. ,Jalpaiguri,Darjiling,Koch Bihar, (1830). Barddhaman,Medinipur . Distribution: 24 Parganas (Ballygunge/ Science College Campus). 715. Acacia concinna DC. (1825). Common name: Ban-Ritha 724. Acacia tomentosa Willd. Life form: Twining shrub Life form: Small tree Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Baruipur). Distribution: Haora (rare).716. Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. (1806). 725. Adenauthera pavonina L. Common name: Guhiya Babla Life form: Tree Life form: Shrub/Small tree Distribution: Darjiling, Haora, Medinipur, Habitat: Waste lands, road sides, Bankura, Maldah, West Dinajpur. railway tracks Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) ( Shyamnagar). 726. Albizia chinensis (Osbeck) Merr. Life form: Tree 717. Acacia moniliformis Griseb. (1874) Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Distribution: Kolkata ( Ballygunge Science 235 734. Entada rheedii subsp. 727. Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth. (1806). sinohimalensis (Grierson & Long) Common name: Siris Panigrahi Life form: Large tree Life form: Large liana Habitat: Mostly naturalized Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution:Murshidabad,Kolkata,Puruliya, 24 Parganas (,Magrahat),Bankura ,Dinajpur, Leucaena latisiliqua (L.) Gills. (1974). Medinipur,Nadia,Barddhaman,Birbhum,Jalpai 735. guri,Darjiling,Haora,Hugli,Koch Common name: Subabul or Khilkadam Bihar,Maldah. Life form: Unarmed shrub Habitat: Road sides, river banks, hedges or wastelands 728. Albizia lucida Benth. Distribution:Puruliya,Medinipur,Murshidabad, Life form: Tree Kolkata,,Dinajpur ,Hugli, 24 Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Parganas( Canning), Barddhaman,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Maldah,Haor 729. Albizia odoratissima (L.f.) Benth. a,Koch Bihar,Bankura,Nadia,Birbhum. Life form: Tree Distribution: Jalpaiguri, Bankura, 736. Mimosa barberi Gamble Medinipur. Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. 730. Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. (1844). Common name: Kori or Koroi 737. Mimosa himalayana Gamble Life form: Unarmed medium tree Life form: Straggling shrub Habitat: Planted in the village areas Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Distribution:Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Murshidabad,Bankura, 738. Mimosa intsia L. Haora,Puruliya, 24 Parganas (Subhashgram),Medinipur. Life form: Straggling shrub Distribution: Throughout plains. 731. Albizia thomsonii Brandis Life form: Deciduous tree 739. Mimosa pudica L. (1753). Distribution: West Dinajpur. Common name: Lajjabati or Najak Life form: Spreading herb Habitat: Road sides, railway tracks, 732. Calliandra brevipes Benth. (1840). waste lands, hedges etc. Life form: Unarmed shrub Distribution:Nadia,Kolkata,Maldah,Koch Habitat: Planted in the villages and Bihar,Birbhum, Darjiling, gardens Dinajpur,Barddhaman,Bankura Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) (Ramnagar/ Haora, Hugli, 24 Parganas Metia Bruz),Koch ( Madarhat/Baruipur),Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,M Bihar,Barddhaman,Bankura,Jalpaiguri urshidabad.733. Desmanthus virgatus (L.) Willd. 740. Neptunia oleracea Lour. (1790). Life form: Shrub or semi woody herb Common name: Pani Najak Distribution: Haora, 24-Parganas. Life form: Aquatic herb Habitat: Village ponds & jheels Distribution:Medinipur,Barddhaman,Hugli,M urshidabad,Dinajpur,, 24 Parganas ,Kolkata, 236 Haora,Koch Bihar,Nadia,Maldah,Jalpaiguri. Habitat: Planted as avenue tree Distribution:Nadia,Bankura,Dinajpur,Dinajpur 741. Parkia pedunculata (Roxb.) ,Hugli,Maldah,Birbhum,Kolkata,Jalpaiguri,Ha Macbride ora, Barddhaman,Murshidabad,Koch Bihar, 24 Life form: Tree Parganas Distribution: Cultivated ( Gosaba),Medinipur,Puruliya,Darjiling. Family: Rosaceae 742. Pithocellobium dulci (Roxb.) Benth. (1844). Common name: Belati Amli Life form: Medium tree 748. Agrimonia pilosa Ladeb. Habitat: Cultivated Hedges, waste Life form: Annual herb lands etc. Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Hugli,Birbhum,Koch Bihar,Barddhaman,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata 749. Aruncus dioicus (Walter) Fernald subsp. ,Bankura,Medinipur, triternatus (Maxim.) Hara South 24 Pgs. Life form: Herb (Canning),Maldah,Murshidabad. Distribution: Darjiling.743. Pithecellobium heterophyllum 750. Cotoneaster acuminatus Wall. ex (Roxb.) Macbride Lindl. Life form: Tree Life form: Erect shrub Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.744. Pithecellobium monodelphum 751. Cotoneaster confusus Klotz (Roxb.) Kosterm. Life form: Tree Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution: Darjiling. 752. Cotoneaster congestus Baker 745. Prosopis chilensis (Molina) Stuntz (1914). Life form: Tree Common name: Bera Babla Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Large shrub Habitat: Hedges or largely as 753. Cotoneaster frigidus Wall. ex Lindl. ornamental Life form: Shrub or small Tree Distribution:Murshidabad,Koch Distribution: Darjiling. Bihar,Darjiling, Hugli, Barddhaman, Dinajpur, Haora,Birbhum, Maldah, Kolkata,,Jalpaiguri,Bankura,Medinipur, 754. Cotoneaster insignis Pojark. Puruliya, 24 Parganas ( Canning/ on the river Life form: Tree banks), Nadia. Distribution:Darjiling.746. Prosopis cineraria (L.) Druce 755. Cotoneaster microphyllus Life form: Large shrub or small tree Life form: Prostrate dwarf shrub Distribution: Bankura, Jalpaiguri. Distribution: Darjiling.747. Samanea saman (Jacq.) Merrill (1916). 756. Cotoneaster nitidus Jacq Common name: Khirish Life form: Shrub Life form: Large tree Distribution:Darjiling.237 757. Cotoneaster pannosus Franch. 767. Eriobotrya dubia (Lindl.) Decaisne Life form: Shrub Life form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling .758. Cotoneaster rotundifolius Wall. ex 768. Eriobotrya hookeriana Decne. Lindl. Life form: Small Tree Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling. 769. Eriobotrya petiolata Hook. f. 759. Cotoneaster sandakphuensis Klotz Life form: Tree Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution: Darjiling. 770. Filipendula vestita (Wall. ex G. Don) Maxim. 760. Crataegus clarkei Hook. f. Life form: Herb Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.761. Crataegus laevigata (Poir.) DC. 771. Fragaria daltoniana J. Gay Life form: Shrub or small tree Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.762. Docynia indica (Wall.) Decsn. 772. Fragaria nubicola Lindl. Life form: Tree Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.773. Fragaria rubiginosa Lacaita 763. Duchesnea indica (Andr.) Foke Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 774. Fragaria vesca L. 764. Duchesnea pentaphylla A. P. Das & Chanda Life form: Herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution: Almost throughout West Distribution:Darjiling. Bengal. 765. Eriobotrya bengalensis (Roxb.) Hook.f. Geum sikkimense Prain Life form: Tree 775. Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling.766. Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lind. (1822). Common name: Loquat 776. Kerria japonica (L.) DC Life form: Small tree Life form: Shrub Habitat: Planted in orchards Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Medinipur],Kolkata, 24 Parganas ( Subuddhipur/Baruipur),Haora,Koch 777. Maddenia himalaica Hook.f. & Thoms. Bihar,Jalpaiguri, Life form: Shrub or small tree Darjiling,Nadia,Murshidabad. Distribution: Throughout West Bengal238 778. Malus baccata (L.) Borkh Life form: Herb Life form: Tree Distribution: Throughout West Bengal. Distribution:Darjiling . 790. Potentilla leuconata D. Don 779. Malus sikkimensis (Wenz.) Kochne Life form: Herb Life form: Tree Distribution: Throughout West Bengal. Distribution:Darjiling. 791. Potentilla lineata Trevir. 780. Neilia rubiflora D. Don Life form: Herb Life form: Shrub Distribution: Throughout West Bengal. Distribution: Darjiling. 792. Potentilla polyphylla Wall. ex Lehm 781. Neillia thyrsiflora D.Don Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Undershrub Distribution: Darjiling Distribution:Darjiling. . 793. Potentilla rigida Wall. ex Lehm. 782. Photinia arguta Lindl. var. arguta Life form: Shrub Life form: Shrub or small tree Distribution: Throughout West Bengal. Distribution: Jalpaiguri. 794. Potentilla sundaica (Blume) O. Kuntze 783. Photinia arguta Lindl. var. hookeri (D.) Life form: Herb Vidal Distribution: Throughout West Bengal. Life form: Shrub or small tree Distribution: Jalpaiguri. 795. Potentilla supina L. (1753). Life form: Aquatic herb 784. Photinia glabra Decne. Distribution:Darjiling ,Dinajpur,Puruliya Life form: Tree . Distribution: Darjiling. 796. Prunus arborea (Blume) Kalkman var. 785. Photinia integrifolia Lindl. montana (Hook.f.) Kalkman Life form: Shrub Life form: Small tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.786. Potentilla arbuscula D. Don 797. Prunus bracteopadus Koehne Life form: Shrub Life form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.787. Potentilla fulgens Wall. 798. Prunus cerasoides D. Don var. Life form: Perennial herb cerasoides Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling. 788. Potentilla griffithii Hook.f. Life form: Herb 799. Prunus cerasoides D. Don var. majestica Distribution: Darjiling. (Koehne) C. Ingram Life form: Tree 789. Potentilla indica (Andrews) Wolf Distribution: Darjiling.239 800. Prunus ceylonica (Wight) Miq. 811. Pyrus communis L. Life form: Tree Life form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.801. Prunus cerasus L. 812. Pyrus japonica Thunb. Life form: Tree Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.802. Prunus cornuta (Wall. ex Royle) 813. Pyrus pashia Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Steud. var. cornuta Life form: Tree Life form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling. 814. P. pyrifolia (Burm.f.) Nakai var. culta 803. Prunus cornuta (Wall. ex Royle) Steud. var. (Makino) Nakai villosa Hara Life form: Tree Life form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling. 815. Rosa x centifolia L. (1753). 804. Prunus glauciphylla Ghora & Panigrahi Common name: Basaraiya gulab Life form: Tree Life form: Erect shrub Distribution: Darjiling. Habitat: Planted in public gardens Distribution:Bankura,Koch Bihar, Darjiling,Maldah,Birbhum,Kolkata,Puruliya, 805. Prunus napaulensis (Ser.) Steud. Medinipur,Jalpaiguri, Life form: Tree 24 Parganas (N)(Shyamnagar). Distribution:Darjiling. 816. Rosa banksiae (Aiton) R.Br.ex Ait.f. 806. Prunus persica (L.) Batsch Life form: Liana Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution:Darjiling. 817. Rosa brunonii Lindl. 807. Prunus rufa Hook. f. Life form: Shruby climber Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 818. Rosa clinophylla Thory var. clinophylla 808. Prunus. undulata Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Life form: Shrub Life form: Tree Distribution: Hugli, 24-Parganas. Distribution: Darjiling. 819. Rosa clinophylla Thory var. glabra (Lindl. 809. Prunus wattii Ex Prain) Ghora & Panigrahi Life form: Shrub Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Maldah.810. Pyracantha crenulata (D.Don) Roem. 820. Rosa gigantea Collett ex Crep. Life form: Shrub Life form: Large scrambling shrub Distribution:Darjiling.240 Distribution: Darjiling. 832. Rubus fockeanus Kurz Life form: Herb 821. Rosa macrophylla Lindl. Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. 833. Rubus fruticosus L. Life form: Shrub 822. Rosa roxburghii Trattin. Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 834. Rubus gardnerianus Kuntze Life form: Shrub 823. Rosa sericea Lindl. Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution: Throughout West Bengal. 835. Rubus gigantiflorus Hara Life form: Undershrub 824. Rosa sinica Murray Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. 836. Rubus glandular Balakr. Life form: Shrub 825. Rosa triphylla Roxb. ex Lindl. Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub or climber Distribution: Darjiling. 837. Rubus griffithii Hook.f. Life form: Climbing shrub 826. Rubus acuminatus Smith Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 838. Rubus indotibetanus Koidz. Life form: Shrub 827. Rubus calycianus Wall. ex D.Don Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Undershrub Distribution:Darjiling. 839. Rubus lineatus Rienwardt Life form: Shrub 828. Rubus calycinoides O. Kuntze Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. 840. Rubus macilentus Cambess. Life form: Shrub or scrambling shrub 829. Rubus diffusus Focke Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. 841. Rubus mesogaeus Focke ex Diels Life form: Scrambling shrub 830. Rubus ellipticus Smith Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling . 842. Rubus moluccanus L. Life form: Scandent shrub 831. Rubus filiacens Smith Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Climbing Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. 843. Rubus niveus Thunb. var. niveus Life form: Shrub241 Distribution:Darjiling. 855. Sanguisorba diandra (Hook.f.) Nordborg 844. Rubus niveus Thunb var. rosaefolius (Hook.f.) Life form: Herb Hara Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 856. Sibbaldia cuneata H. Hafn. ex O.Kuntze Life form: Perennial herb 845. Rubus paniculatus Smith Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling . 857. Sibbaldia micropetala (D. Don) Hand.-Mazz. Life form: Herb 846. Rubus pedunculosis D. Don Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. 858. Sibbaldia paviflora Willd. Life form: Tamentose herb 847. Rubus pentagonus Wall. ex Focke Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. 859. Sibbaldia toullifilia (Hook.f.) Chatterjee Life form: Herb 848. Rubus rosifolius Smith Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. 860. Sarbaria tomentosa (Lindl.) Rehder Life form: Shrub 849. Rubus rugosus Smith Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling . 861. Sorbus arachnoids Koehne. 850. Rubus senchalensis Hara Life form: Tree Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 862. Sorbus foliosa (Wall.) Spach var. wenzigiana 851. Rubus splendidissimus Hara (Schneider) Rushforth Life form: Shrub Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.863. Sorbus griffithii (Decne.) Rehder 852. Rubus thomsonii Focke Life form: Tree Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.853. Rubus trentleri Hook.f. 864. Sorbus insignis (Hook.f.) Hedlund Life form: Bushy or scrambling shrub Life form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.854. Rubus wardii Merrill 865. Sorbus kurrii (Watt. ex Prain) Life form: Traiing shrub Schneid. Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Small tree242 Distribution: Darjiling. Family: Crassulaceae866. Sorbus microphylla Decne. 877. Bryophyllum pinnatum (Lam.) Oken. (1841). Life form: Shrub or small tree Common name: Pathar Kuchi Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Fleshy, succulent herb Habitat: Dry waste lands, thickets 867. Sorbus rhamnoides (Decne.) Rehder Distribution:Maldah,,Koch Bihar,Haora,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Medini Life form: Tree pur, 24 Parganas( Jugdia- Distribution: Darjiling. Benipur),Birbhum,Puruliya,Murshidabad.868. Sorbus rufopilosa Schneider 878. Kalanchoe grandiflora Wight & Arn. Life form: Shrub Life form: Annual herb Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Bankura.869. Sorbus thomsonii (King ex Hook.f.) Rehder 879. Kalanchoe laciniata (L.) DC. Life form: Tree Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri.870. Sorbus vestita (G. Don) Schau. 880. Kalanchoe lanceolata (Fask.) Pers. Life form: Tree Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.871. Sorbus wallichii (Hook.f.) Yu 881. Kalanchoe pinnata Life form: Small tree Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Throughout West Bengal.872. Spirea bella Sims 882. Rhodiola chrysanthemifolia (Ler.) Fu Life form: Shrub Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.873. Spirea canescens D. Don 883. Rhodiola sinuata (Royle ex Edgew.) Fu Life form: Shrub Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution: Darjiling.874. Spirea cantoniensis Lour. 884. Sedum multicaule Wall. ex Lindl. Life form: Shrub Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling. 875. Spiraea darjilingensis Panigrahi & Purohit Life form: Shrub Family: Droseraceae Distribution: Darjiling. 885. Aldrovanda vesiculosa L. (1753). 876. Spirea micrantha Hook. f. Common name: Malacca jhangi Life form: Shrub Life form: Insectivorous aquatic Distribution:Darjiling. succulent herb Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Lower Ganga 243 region ). Life form: Medium tree Habitat: Inter-tidal mangrove forest 886. Drosera burmannii Vahl Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Kulpi). Life form: Herb Distribution: Jalpaiguri, Murshidabad, 893. Bruguiera sexangula (Lour.) Poir. (1816). Birbhum, Puruliya, Medinipur, Hugli. Common name: Kankra Life form: Medium tree 887. Drosera indica L. Habitat: Inter-tidal mangrove forest Life form: Herb Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Sajnakhali). Distribution: Birbhum. 894. Carallia brachiata (Lour.) Merr. Family: Haloragaceae Life form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling. 888. Myriophyllum tetrandrum Roxb. Common name: Jhangi 895. Ceriops decandra (Griff.) Ding Hou (1958). Life form: Aquatic ‘Goran’. Habitat: Marshy places & ditches Life form: Shrub or small tree Distribution: 24 Parganas Habitat: Inter-tidal mangrove forest ,Medinipur,Haora,Nadia,Kolkata,Hugli. & river slopes Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Gosaba). 889. Myriophyllum tuberculatum Roxb. (1820). Life form: Aquatic 896. Ceriops tagal (Perr.) Robinson (1908). Habitat: Marshy places & ditches Common name: Mat-Goran Distribution:Nadia,Haora, 24 Life form: Small or moderate tree Parganas,Medinipur,Hugli. Habitat: Inter-tidal mangrove thickets & ridge forests Family: Rhizophoraceae Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Kulpi).890. Bruguiera cylindrica (L.) Blume (1827). 897. Kandelia candel (L.) Druce (1913). Common name: Bakul Kakra Common name: Goria Life form: True mangrove species, tall Life form: Small or moderate tree tree Habitat: Mangrove forests of Habitat: Inter tidal mangrove forest Sunderbans Distribution: South 24 Pgs.(Sunderbans Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Pirkhali). ( Sajnakhali ). 898. Rhizophora apiculata Blume (1827). 891. Bruguiera gymnorrhiza (L.) Savi. (1797). Common name: Garjan Common name: Kankra Life form: Medium tree Life form: Medium tree Habitat: Tidal mangrove areas in the Habitat: River banks, intertidal coastal areas mangrove forest Distribution: 24 Parganas Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Sunderbans, ( Sanjnakhali/Sunderbans). Harinbari/Sagar Islands). 899. Rhizophora mucronata Poir. (1804). 892. Bruguiera parviflora (Roxb.)Wight & Arn. ex Common name: Garjan Griff. (1936). Life form: Medium tree Common name: Bakul Kankra Habitat: Tidal mangrove forests, in river slopes & swampy inter-tidal zones of 244 Sunderbans, co-exsisted with Ceriops spp. & Burguiera 904. Terminalia catappa L. (1767). Distribution: 24 Parganas( Sajnakhali). Common name: Katbadam or Deshibadam Life form: Large tree Family: Combretaceae Habitat: Avenue tree or in garden edges 900. Lumnitzera racemosa Willd. (1803). Distribution:Medinipur, 24 Parganas (N) Common name: Kripal ( Dakshmin Life form: Tree Barasat),Kolkata,Puruliya,Dinajpur,Bankura, Habitat: Above tidal forests, as the Haora,Darjiling,Birbhum,Nadia. back mangal species Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Namkhana ). 905. Terminalia chebula (Gaertn.) Retz. (1789). Common name: Haritaki 901. Quisqualis indica L. (1762). Life form: Medium to large tree Common name: Rangoon-ke-bel Habitat: Planted as ornamental & Life form: Climbing shrub avenue tree Habitat: Wastelands & village Distribution:Maldah,South 24 Pgs. thickets (Dhopagachi/Baruipur),Medinipur Distribution:Medinipur,Birbhum, 24 Parganas ,Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri, Koch (S) ( Sarberia /SandesHookhali), Maldah, Bihar,Bankura,,Birbhum,Puruliya,Barddhama Kolkata, Puruliya, n,Murshidabad . Darjiling,Nadia,Bankura,Barddhaman,Koch Bihar,Hugli,Haora,Murshidabad Family: Myrtaceae ,Dinajpur, Jalpaiguri. 906. Callistemon citrinus (Curt.) Stapf (1925). 902. Terminalia arjuna (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Common name: Botal Brass Arn. (1834). Life form: Large shrub Common name: Arjuna Habitat: Commonly planted in Life form: Large tree gardens Habitat: Avenue tree & wild in Distribution: 24 Parganas village shrubberies ( Madhyamgram ),Medinipur,Kolkata,Maldah, Distribution:Koch Barddhaman,Koch Bihar Bihar,Barddhaman,Murshidabad,Darjiling,Me ,Dinajpur,Hugli,Jalpaiguri. dinipur,South 24 Pgs.(Sagar Mela Premises/Sagar 907. Eucalyptus citriodora Hook. (1848). Islands),Kolkata,Puruliya,Bankura,Dinajpur,N Common name: Eucalyptus adia,Hugli,Haora,Maldah, Birbhum,Jalpaiguri. Life form: Tall tree Habitat: Planted as avenue tree 903. Terminalia bellirica (Gaertn.) Roxb. ex Distribution: Fleming (1798). Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Nadia,Haora, Common name: Bohera Birbhum,Darjiling,Bankura, Medinipur,Koch Life form: Medium to large tree Bihar,Hugli,Kolkata,Murshidabad, 24 Habitat: Avenue tree Parganas ( Jadavpur ),Puruliya,Maldah. Distribution:Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Haora , Dinajpur,Nadia,KochBihar,Birbhum, 908. Melaleuca leucadendron L.(1767). Murshidabad, Common name: Cajaputi Medinipur,Kolkata,Bankura,Puruliya,South Life form: Small to medium tree 24 Pgs. (Malirdhar/Canning),Barddhaman. Habitat: Rarely planted in the 245 gardens Common name: Jamrul Distribution:Darjiling,Koch Bihar Life form: Medium sized tree ,Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas . Habitat: Planted in the orchards, or self-shown 909. Psidium guajava L. (1753). Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Nilgunj/Barrackpore ). Common name: Piyara Life form: Small tree Habitat: Planted in orchards 916. Syzygium tetragonum Wall.ex Wt. Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Dhanyakuria ). Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. 910. Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels (1912). Common name: Kalo-jam Family: Lecythidaceae Life form: Medium tree Habitat: Rarely planted, self-grown 917. Barringtonia acutangula (L. ) Gaertn. (1780). in village areas Common name: Hijal Distribution:Darjiling,Hugli ,Kolkata,Medin Life form: Moderate tree ipur,Haora,Birbhum,Bankura,Barddhaman, Habitat: Banks of the rivers of Murshidabad, ,Dinajpur,Maldah,Nadia,Koch Sunderbans Bihar, 24 Parganas (Amtala, Distribution:Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Hugli , 24 Dewanganj ),Puruliya, Jalpaiguri. Parganas ( Mollakhali ),Haora,Murshidabad,Nadia 911. Syzygium fruticosum DC. (1828). , Common name: Ban jam Dinajpur,Koch Life form: Medium tree Bihar,Barddhaman,Medinipur,Kolkata. Habitat: Wild or self-shown Distribution: South 24 Pgs. ( Basanti/river 918. Barringtonia racemosa Roxb. (1824). banks ). Common name: Sumudra Life form: Tall tree 912. Syzygium jambos (L.) Alston (1931). Habitat: River banks Common name: Golap jam Distribution:Maldah,Dinajpur,Hugli,Medinipu Life form: Small to medium tree r,Koch Bihar,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri,Nadia, Habitat: Planted in the orchards Haora, Kolkata,South 24 Pgs.(Sagar Islands Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Nabagram ). of Sunderbans, Basirhat ),Murshidabad.913. Syzygium malaccense (L.) Merr. & Perry Family: Melastometaceae (1938). Common name: Malacca jamrul 919. Medinilla erythrophylla (Wall.) Distribution:Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri. Lindl. Life form: Epiphytic or terrestrial shrub 914. Syzygium ruscifolium (Willd.) Santapau & Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Wagh (1963). Common name: Hidjili Menadi 920. Medinilla himalayana Hook.f. ex Life form: Woody shrub Triana Distribution: Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri, 24 Life form: Shrub Parganas,Koch Bihar. Distribution: Darjiling.915. Syzygium samarangense (Blume) Merrill & 921. Melastoma malabathricum L. Perry (1938). 246 Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling Distribution:Darjiling. 932. Osbeckia. stellata Buch.-Ham.ex Ker-Gawl. 922. Melastoma normale D. Don Life form: Shrub Life form: Undershrub Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution: Darjiling. 933. Oxyspora paniculata (D. Don) DC. 923. Memecylon umbellatum Burm.f. (1768). Life form: Shrub Common name: Anjan Distribution:Darjiling , Jalpaiguri Life form: Small tree Habitat: Very rare in vill. Thickets Sarcopyramis nepalensis Wall. Distribution:South 24 Pgs. 934. ( Falta ),Haora,Nadia. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling .924. Osbeckia chinensis L. var. chinensis 935. Sonerila amabilis Kurz Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling, W. Dinajpur, Birbhum Distribution: Darjiling. 925. Osbeckia chinensis L. var. pusilla (Zoll.) 936. Sonerila tenera Royle Triana Life form: Herb Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling. 937. Tibouchina semidecandra Cogn. 926. Osbeckia crinita Benth. ex Nandin Life form: Shrub Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling. Family: Lythraceae 927. Osbeckia darjilingensis Giri & Nayar 938. Ammannia auriculata Willd. Life form: Shrub or herb Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Koch Bihar, Murshidabad.928. Osbeckia muralis Nandin 939. Ammannia baccifera L. (1753).subsp. Life form: Annual herb baccifera Distribution: Western part of West Bengal. Common name: Dadmari Life form: Annual marsh herb 929. Osbeckia nepelensis Hook. Habitat: Marshy Habitat Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Medinipur,Bankura,Koch Distribution:Darjiling. Bihar,Haora,Birbhum,Jalpaiguri , 24 Parganas ( Sunderbans ), 930. Osbeckia nutans Wall. ex Clarke Murshidabad,Maldah,Nadia,Barddhaman,Hug Life form: Erect or schandent shrub li. Distribution: Darjiling. 940. Ammannia baccifera L. subsp. aegyptica 931. Osbeckia rostrata D. Don (Willd.) Koehne Life form: Shrub Life form: Fleshy herb247 Distribution: Bankura, Medinipur, 24- Distribution:Maldah,Bankura,Birbhum,Bardd Parganas, Puruliya. haman,Haora,Murshidabad,Darjiling,Hugli,Jal paiguri,Nadia,South 24 Pgs. (Gosaba ),Kolkata,Puruliya,Medinipur,Koch 941. Ammannia multiflora Roxb. (1820). Bihar ,Dinajpur. Life form: Marshy herb Habitat: Marshy Habitat Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Amtala/Diamond 949. Lawsonia inermis L. (1753). area ). Common name: Mehendi Life form: Spiny hedge shrub Habitat: Hedges 942. Cuphaea procumbens Cav. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)( Falta ). Life form: Perennial herb Distribution: Darjiling . 950. Rotala cordata Koehne 943. Nesaea brevipes Koehne Life form: Herb Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Puruliya. 951. Rotala densiflora (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) 944. Woodfordia fruiticosa (L.) Kurz Koehne (1880). Life form: Shrub Life form: Herb Habitat: Waste places Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Distribution: 24 Parganas (Salt Lake area/Bamanghata ). Family: Juglandaceae 952. Rotala indica (Willd.) Koehne (1880 ). 945. Engelhardtia spicata Lesch. ex Blume Life form: Herb Life form: Tree Habitat: Waste places Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution:South 24 Pgs. ( Baruipur ).946. Lagerstromia indica L. (1759). 953. Rotala mexicana Cham. & Schlecht. Common name: China Life form: Aquatic herb Life form: Shrub Distribution: Darjiling, Haora, Murshidabad. Habitat: Planted in the ornamental gardens Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Puruliya,Medinipur,Ko 954. Rotala rosa (Poir.) C. D. K. Cook lkata,Murshidabad,South 24 Pgs. Life form: Herb ( Joynagar/Mazilpur ), Koch Distribution: Hugli, Haora, Medinipur, Bihar,Darjiling,Nadia,Haora,Maldah,Barddha Puruliya, West Dinajpur. man,Bankura,Dinajpur ,Hugli,Birbhum. 955. Rotala rotundifolia (Buch.-Ham.) ex 947. Lagerstroemia parviflora Roxb. Roxb.Koehne(1881). Life form: Tree Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri, Habitat: Waste places Barddhaman, Medinipur, Puruliya. Distribution: 24 Parganas (Herobhanga ).948. Lagerstromia speciosa (L.) Pers. (1806). 956. Rotala wallichii (Hook.f.) Koehne Common name: Jarul Life form: Aquatic herb Life form: Medium to large tree. Distribution: Jalpaiguri. Habitat: Avenue tree248 Family: Sonneratiaceae 963. Circea repens Wall. ex Aschr. & Magnus Life form: Annual herb 957. Duabanga grandiflora (Roxb. ex DC.) Distribution:Darjiling. Walp. Life form: Tree 964. Epilobium amurense Hausskn. ssp. amurense Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Distribution:Darjiling.958. Sonneratia apetala Buch.-Ham. (1800). 965. Epilobium brevifolium D. Don Common name: Keora Life form: Annual herb Life form: Medium tree Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Swamps of Sunderbans Distribution:South 24 Pgs. 966. Epilobium cylindricum D. Don ( Rangabelia/Sunderbans ). Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 959. Sonneratia caseolaris (L.) Engler(1897). Common name: Chak-Keora 967. Epilobium sikkimense Haussknecht Life form: Small to medium tree Life form: Herb Habitat: ,, inner estuaries Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution:South 24 Pgs. (Kulti estuary (Sakha Bidyadhari). 968. E. wallichianum Haussknecht Life form: Herb 960. Sonneratia griffithii Kurz (1871). Distribution: Darjiling. Common name: Ora Life form: Small to medium tree Habitat: Outer estuaries or shore 969. Epilobium sikkimense Haussknecht lines or true estuaries Life form: Herb Distribution: South 24 Pgs.( Sunderbans ). Distribution: Darjiling.Family: Punicaceae 970. Epilobium wallichianum Haussknecht Life form: Herb 961. Punnica granatum L. (1753). Distribution: Darjiling. Common name: Dalim Life form: Shrub or small tree 971. Fuchsia dependens Hook. Habitat: Cultivated in old orchards Life form: Shrub Distribution:Dinajpur,Medinipur,Hugli,Malda Distribution:Darjiling . h,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar,Darjiling, Bankura,Birbhum,Puruliya,South 24 Pgs. 972. Ludwigia adscendens (L.) Hara(1953). (Canning/Bhangankhali ),Kolkata,Nadia,Murs Common name : Kesara-dam hidabad, Haora . Distribution:Birbhum ,Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad,Puruliya,Hu Family: Onagraceae gli, 24 Parganas , Darjiling,Barddhaman,Koch Bihar,Maldah,Haora,Bankura,Medinipur,Nadi a,Kolkata. 962. Circea alpina L. subsp. maicola (Aschers. & Magnus) Kitamura 973. Ludwrigia erecta (L.) Hara Life form: Herb Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling.249 Distribution: Haora. Family: Passifloraceae974. Ludwrigia hyssopifolia (D. Don) Exell 983. Adenia trilobata (Roxb.) Engl. Life form: Herb Life form: Climbing shrub Distribution: Throughout the State. Distribution: Darjiling.975. Ludwrigia octovalvis (Jacq.) Raven subsp. 984. Passiflora edulis Sims octovalvis Life form: Climber Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling, Murshidabad, Hugli. Distribution: Throughout the state. 985. Passiflora foetida L. (1753). 976. Ludwigia octovalvis ssp. sessiliflora (Micheli) Life form: Climbing shrub Raven (1962). Habitat: Climbing on the bushes as a Distribution: 24 Parganas . wild species Distribution:Hugli,Jalpaiguri ,Murshidabad,H aora ,Dinajpur,Nadia,Koch Bihar, Medinipur, 977. Ludwigia perennis Roxb. (1820). Kolkata,Barddhaman,Maldah,South 24 Pgs. Distribution: 24 Parganas . ( Canning, Amtala ).978. Ludwigia prostrata Roxb. (1820). 986. Passiflora nepalensis Wall. Distribution: 24 Parganas . Life form: Climbing herb Distribution: Darjiling. 979. Oenothera erythrosepala Borbas Life form: Perennial herb 987. Passiflora quadrangularis L. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Climber Distribution: North Bengal. 980. Oenothera rosea Aiton Life form: Perennial herb 988. Passiflora suberosa L. (1753). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Jhumko Life form: Climbling or prostrate herb Family: Trapaceae Habitat: Hedges & thickets Distribution:South 24 Pgs. (Sashan/near 981. Trapa bispinosa Roxb.(1798). Baruipur, lower Ganga delta ). Common name: Pani Phal or Singara Phal Life form: Aquatic herb 989. Passiflora subpeltata Ortega Habitat: Cultivated in the water Life form: Climber bodies Distribution: North Bengal. Distribution:Barddhaman ,Jalpaiguri,Mur shidabad ,Koch Family: Caricaceae Bihar,Maldah,Kolkata,Nadia,Haora,Dinajpur (N+S), 24 Parganas ,Hugli,Medinipur . 990. Carica papaya L. (1753).. 982. Casearia elliptica Willd. (1800). Common name: Papaya Life form: Branched or unbranched, Life form: Small tree herbaceous, trre like habit Habitat: Road sides as avenue tree Habitat: Planted / cultivated Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) (Shyamnagar ). Distribution:Darjiling ,Puruliya,Bankura, 24 Parganas ( Bamanghata/Tapsia ) , 250 Dinajpur,Maldah, herb Kolkata,Haora,Birbhum,Hugli,Barddhaman,N Habitat: Cultivated on sandy soils adia,Koch Distribution:Haora,Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas Bihar,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad. (S)(Malancha/near Gobindapur),Hugli,Jalpaiguri . Family: Cucurbitaceae 999. Coccinia grandia (L.) Voigt 991. Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. (1888). Common name: Tela-Kucha Common name : Chal-Kumra Life form: Creeper Life form: Trailing or climbing annual Habitat: Hedges & thickets herb Distribution:Koch Bihar Habitat: Cultivated in the vill. ,Dinajpur,Darjiling,South 24 Pgs. (Diamond Gardens Harbour),Jalpaiguri, Haora, Birbhum, Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Bankura,Haora,Darjilin Murshidabad, Bankura, Barddhaman, Nadia, g,Koch Bihar,Puruliya,Medinipur, 24 Maldah, Kolkata, Medinipur,Puruliya, Hugli. Parganas (Titagarh),Murshidabad,Barddhaman,Kolkata, 1000. Corallocarpus epigaeus (Rottl. & Willd.) Hugli ,Dinajpur,Maldah,Nadia,Birbhum. Hook.f. Life form: Climbing herb 992. Biswarea tonglensis C. B. Clarke Cogn. Distribution: Plains of West Bengal. Life form: Climber Distribution:Darjiling. 1001. Cortiella hookeri (C.B.Clarke) Norman Life form: Herb 993. Bryonopsis laciniosa (L.) Naud. Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Climber Distribution:Darjiling. 1002. Cucumis callosus (Rottler) Cogn.(1924). Life form: Climber or creeper 994. Chaerophyllum reflexum Lindl. Habitat: Railway trackts, waste Life form: Herb places & road sides Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling,Kolkata,Puruliya, 24 Parganas(Bamanpukur),Haora ,Dinajpur, Murshidabad,Birbhum,Medinipur,Koch 995. Chaerophyllum villosum Wall. ex DC. Bihar,Barddhaman,Hugli,Jalpaiguri, Nadia, Life form: Herb Maldah,Bankura. Distribution: Darjiling. 1003. Cucumis melo L.(1753). 996. Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cusson Common name: Karbuz Life form: Herb Life form: Climber or creeper Distribution: Jalpaiguri. Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Nadia 997. Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsumuri & ,Dinajpur,Birbhum,Maldah,Bankura,Haora, Nakai Murshidabad,Kolkata,Puruliya, 24 Life form: Climber Parganas(Sonarpur),Medinipur,Koch Distribution: Cultivated. Bihar,Hugli. 998. Citrullus vulgaris Schard. ex Eckl. (1836). 1004. Cucumis sativus L.(1753). Common name: Tarmuz Common name: Sasa Life form: Annual climbing or trailing Life form: Climber or creeper251 Habitat: Cultivated Kamalgazi), Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Distribution:Medinipur,Puruliya,Kolkata,Mald ah,Birbhum,Jalpaiguri,Bankura 1011. Gynostenma pedata Blume ,Dinajpur,Hugli, Life form: Climbing herb adia,Murshidabad,Haora,Barddhaman,Koch Distribution: Darjiling. Bihar, 24 Parganas (Dhopagachhi).1012. Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Thunb.) Makino Cucurbita maxima Buch.-Ham.(1786). 1005. Life form: Shruby climber Common name: Mitha Kumra Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Climber or creeper Habitat: On the road side garbages, cultivated 1013.Herpitospermum pedunculosum ex DC.Baill. Distribution:Nadia, 24 Parganas Life form: Climber ( Nilgunj/Barrackpore),Puruliya,Medinipur,Ba Distribution:Darjiling. rddhaman,Birbhum, Hugli,Maldah,Haora,Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri, 1014.Hodgsonia microcarpa (Blume) Cogn. Kolkata,Koch Bihar,Dinajpur,Bankura, Life form: Large climber Darjiling. Distribution: Jalpaiguri.1006. Cucurbita pepo DC. 1015.Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) Standl. Common name: Kumra Common name: Lau Life form: Climber or creeper Life form: Climber Habitat: Cult. Habitat: Cult. Distribution:Murshidabad,Haora,Birbhum,Din Distribution: 24 Parganas . ajpur, Jalpaiguri,Maldah,Nadia,Darjiling, Bankura,Barddhaman,Koch Bihar,Hugli,Puruliya, 24 Parganas ,Kolkata 1016.Luffa acutangula Roxb. ,Medinipur. Common name: Jhinga Life form: Climber Habitat: Cult. 1007. Diplocyclos palmatus (L.) Jeffrey (1962). Distribution:Barddhaman, 24 Parganas Common name: Mala ,Kolkata,Haora,Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Murshidabad, Life form: Herb Hugli, Medinipur,Maldah,Cochbeha,Darjiling. Habitat: Hedges & thickets Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) (Birati). 1017.Luffa cylindrica (L.) Roem. (1846). Common name: Dhundal 1008. Edgaria Darjilingensis C.B.Clarke Life form: Large climber Life form: Climber Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Koch Bihar,Medinipur,arjeeling,Kolkata, 24 1009. Gomphogyne cissiformis Griff. Parganas( Subuddhipur / Baruipur) , Life form: Climber Barddhaman, Distribution: Darjiling. Haora,Maldah,Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Hugli, Nadia. 1010. Gymnopetalum cochinchinense (Lour.) Kurz Life form: Climber 1018. Luffa echinata Roxb. Habitat: Rarely found on the waste Life form: Herb lands of vill. Shrubberies Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Distribution: 24 Parganas (Narendrapur/near 252 1019.Luffa graveolens Roxb. Common name: Bilasi Life form: Herb Life form: Annual climber Distribution: Darjiling. Habitat: Waste lands & vacant plots Distribution: 24 Parganas (Herobhanga). 1020.Melothria heterophylla (Lour.) Cogn. 1027.Neoalsomitra clavigera (Wall.) Hutch. Life form: Herb Life form: Woody climber Distribution: Hugli, Haora, 24-Parganas, Distribution: Darjiling. Medinipur, Bankura, Puruliya, Koch Bihar.1021. Melothria maderaspatana (L.) 1028.Sechium edule (Jacq.) Swartz Life form: Climber Cogn. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Climber Distribution: Cultivated. 1029. Solena amplexiculis (Lam.) Gandhi(1976). Common name: Kudri 1022. Momordica charantia L. var. charantia Life form: Climber Common name: Karala Habitat: Village thickets & hedges Life form: Annual climber Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Ramnagar/Jugdia). Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Murshidabad,Medinipur ,Dinajpur,Hugli,,Nadia, 24 Parganas, Thladiantha calcarata Cogn. ( Kadampur), Koch Life form: Climber Bihar,Barddhaman,,Haora,Maldah,Jalpaiguri. Distribution:Darjiling.1023. Momordica charantia L. var. 1031. Thladiantha cordifolia (Blume) muricata (Willd.) Chakravarty Cogn. Life form: Climber Life form: Herb Distribution: Throughout West Bengal. Distribution: Darjiling.1024. Momordica cochinchinensis (Lour.) Spreng. 1032. Trichosanthes anguina L. Common name: Kakrol Common name: Chichinga Life form: Strong climbing shrub Life form: Climber Habitat: Cultivated Habitat: Cult. Distribution:Murshidabad, 24 Parganas Distribution:Haora,Maldah,Koch (Habra/Ashokenagar),Medinipur,Kolkata,Haor Bihar,Barddhaman a,Jalpaiguri, Hugli,Barddhaman,Koch ,Dinajpur,Nadia,Bankura,Jalpaiguri, Bihar,Dinajpur, Medinipur, 24 Parganas . Birbhum,Nadia,Darjiling,Maldah. 1033. Trichosanthes bracteata (Lam.) Voigt 1025. Momordica dioica Roxb. ex Willd. (1805). (1845). Common name: Ban-Karala Life form: Climber Life form: Climber Habitat: Cult. Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Bankura,Barddhaman, 24 Distribution:Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas Parganas( Bamanpukur),Koch Bihar, (Taki/Sankchura, lower Ganga Jalpaiguri, Dinajpur, delta),Birbhum,Darjiling. Darjiling,Nadia,Murshidabad,Maldah.1026. Mukia maderaspatana (L.) Roem.(1846). 1034. Trichosanthes cordata Roxb.253 Life form: Climber Life form: Woody climber Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Distribution: Haora, Rare.1035. Trichosanthes cucumerina L.(1753). 1044. Zehneria maysorensis (Wight & Arn.) Common name: Ban Chichinga Arn. Life form: Annual climber Life form: Climber Habitat: Vill. Scrub jungles Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution:Birbhum, 24 Parganas(Basanti). 1045. Zehneria indica (Lour.) Kerandren 1036. Trichosanthes dioica Roxb. Life form: Scandent Herb Common name: Patal Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri, Koch Life form: Annual climber Bihar. Habitat: Cult. Distribution:Medinipur,Jalpaiguri, 24 Family: Cactaceae Parganas ,Maldah,Koch Bihar,Murshidabad, Dinajpur, ,Barddhaman,,Birbhum,Nadia,Hugli,Haora. 1046. Cereus hexagonus (L.) Mill. Life form: Shrub 1037. Trichosanthes himalensis C.B.Clarke Distribution: Haora, Murshidabad. Life form: Climber Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. 1047. Opuntia dillenii (Ker-Gawler)Haw. (1819). Common name: Phana 1038. Trichosanthes lepiniana (Naud.) Cogn. Habitat: Sandy sea shores Distribution:Koch Bihar Life form: Climber ,Medinipur,Murshidabad,Maldah,Dinajp Distribution: Darjiling. ur ,Jalpaiguri,Nadia, 24 Parganas Lower Ganga delta,Birbhum. 1039.Trichosanthes nervifolia L. (1753). Common name: Ban-Chichinga 1048. Opuntia elatior Mill. Life form: Perennial, stem woody Life form: Shrub Habitat: Waste places Distribution: Puruliya. Distribution: 24 Parganas( Taki/Sanchura). 1049. Pereskia bleo (H.B.K.) DC. 1040.Trichosanthes ovigea Blume Life form: Shrub Life form: Climber Distribution: Haora, Murshidabad. Distribution: Darjiling. Family: Aizoaceae 1041.Trichosanthes tricuspidata Lour. Life form: Climber 1050. Gisekia pharnaceoides L. Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri Life form: Herb Distribution: Bankura, Medinipur 1042. Trichosanthes wallichiana (Seringe) Wight Life form: Climber 1051. Sesuvium portulacastrum L. (1753). Common name: Gada Bani Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Distribution: 24 Parganas( Mangrove forest areas, Sunderbans). 1043. Zanonia indica L.254 1052. Trianthema portulacastrum L. (1753). Common name: Sabuni 1059. Anethum graveolens L.(1753). Habitat: Swampy areas Common name: Salpha Distribution:Koch Life form: Herb Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad,Medinipur,24 Habitat: Garden escapes in the Parganas (S)(Sunderbans), Kolkata,Puruliya, villages Barddhaman,Haora,,Maldah Distribution: 24 ,Dinajpur,Nadia,Birbhum,Hugli,Bankura. Parganas( Basanti/Sunderbans).1053. Trianthema triquetra Rottl. & Willd. (1803). 1060.Bupleurum candolleii Wall. ex DC. Habitat: Swampy areas Life form: Herb Distribution: 24 Parganas( Sunderbans). Distribution: Darjiling.Family: Molluginaceae 1061.Carum carvi L. Life form: Herb 1054. Glinus lotoides L. (1753). Distribution: Cultivated throughout West Life form: Annual herb Bengal. Habitat: Waste places, dry fields Distribution:Haora, 24 1062.Centella asiatica (L.) Urban(1897). Parganas( Dewanganj),Barddhaman,Birbhum, Common name: Thankuni Hugli,Bankura,Puruliya,Nadia. Life form: Diffuse herb Habitat: Garden grounds 1055. Glinus oppositifolia (L.) DC.(1901). Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Puruliya, 24 Parganas ( Common name: Gima Sak Lower Ganga delta),Kolkata Life form: Annual herb ,Dinajpur,Medinipur, Habitat: ,, open pustures & along Darjiling,Maldah,Nadia,Haora,Birbhum,Hugli way sides ,Bankura,Barddhaman,Koch Distribution: 24 Bihar,Murshidabad. Parganas( Madarhat/Baruipur). 1063. Coriandrum sativum L.(1753). 1056. Mollugo pentaphylla L.(1753). Common name: Dhane Common name: Khet Papra Life form: Annual her Distribution: 24 Parganas( Lower ganga delta, Habitat: Cultivated in the vill. Salt Lake areas),Hugli,Puruliya, Bankura, Gardens Dinajpur,Haora,Kolkata,Birbhum,Murshidaba Distribution:Bankura,Medinipur,Puruliya,Kol d,Maldah,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri. kata, 24 Parganas (Garia, Budge Budge), Jalpaiguri, Family: Apiaceae , Dinajpur,Maldah,Koch Bihar,Haora,Nadia,Birbhum,Barddhaman,Mur 1057. Acronema belletum (C.B.Clarke) P. K. shidabad,Hugli. Mukherjee Life form: Herb 1064. Cuminum cuminum L.(1753). Distribution: Darjiling. Common name: Zira Life form: Annual her Habitat: Cultivated 1058.Acronema tenesum (DC.) Edgew. Distribution: 24 Parganas(Bamanghata). Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling. 1065. Daucus carota L.(1753). 255 Common name: Gajar Life form: Herb Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling. Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Hugli,Murshidabad,Nadia,Bankur1074.Pimpinella urceolata Wall. ex M. L. a,Haora,Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Koch Bihar, 24 Banerjee Parganas(Titagarh/Bhanagar),Medinipur,Mald Life form: Herb ah. Distribution: Darjiling.1066. Foeniculum vulgare Mill.(1768). 1075.Pimpinella wallichii C.B.Clarke Common name: Pan-Muhuri Life form: Herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution: Darjiling. Habitat: Rarely cultivated in the gardens 1076.Sanicula elata Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Distribution:Birbhum,Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Purul Life form: Herb iya,Jalpaiguri,Bankura,Murshidabad,Medinipu Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. r, 24 Parganas (Sarberia/Sunderbans), Haora, Barddhaman,Hugli,,Koch Bihar,Nadia,Kolkata,Maldah. 1077.Selanium candollii DC. Life form: Herb 1067. Heracleum nepalense D. Don Distribution: Darjiling Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling. 1078. Seseli diffusum (Roxb. ex Sm.) Sant. & Wagh (1963). 1068. Hydrocotyle javanica Thunb. Common name: Ban Jowan Distribution:Birbhum,Maldah,Koch Life form: Herb Bihar,Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Haora, Distribution: Darjiling, Maldah Barddhaman, Medinipur, Hugli.1069. Oenanthe javanica (Blume) DC. (1830). 1079. Sinocarum sikkimense (P. K. Common name: Pan-Turasi Mukherjee) P. K. Mukherjee Distribution:Darjiling,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas Life form: Herb ( Lower Ganga Distribution: Darjiling. delta),Maldah,Koch Bihar ,Dinajpur.1070. Peucedanum dhana Wall. ex Clarke 1080. Trachyospermum ammi (L.) Sprague(1929). Life form: Herb Common name: Jurani Life form: Annual herb Distribution: North Bengal. Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Haora, 24 Parganas ( Kulpi), 1071. Pimpinella diversifolia DC. Jalpaiguri,Maldah,Nadia,,Medinipur,Kolkata, Life form: Herb Hugli, Koch Bihar,Barddhaman,Murshidabad. Distribution: Darjiling. 1081. Trachyospermum roxburghianum (DC.) 1072. Pimpinella sikkimensis Clarke Crail. Life form: Herb Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Cultivated throughout West Bengal. 1073. Pimpinella tongloensis P. K. Mukherjee256 Family: Alangiaceae Distribution:Darjiling .1082. Alangium alpinum C.B.Clarke W.W. Smith & 1088. Borreria alata (Aubl.) DC. Cave Life form: Annual herb Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1089. Borreria articularis (L.f.) Williams (1905). 1083. Alangium chinense (Lour.) Harms Common name: Madanghanti Life form: Tree Life form: Annual herb Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Habitat: Open waste lands & pastures 1084. Alangium salvifolium (L. f.) Wangarin.(1910). Distribution:Haora,Puruliya,Kolkata,Hugli,Jal Common name: Ankura paiguri,Koch Bihar,Birbhum Life form: Small to medium tree ,Dinajpur,Bankura, Murshidabad,,Maldah, 24 Distribution:Hugli,,Puruliya ,Kolkata Parganas ( Brace Bridge/Jingira ,Dinajpur,Haora,Birbhum,Medinipur,Murshid Bazar),Medinipur. abad, Barddhaman,Bankura,Koch Bihar,Maldah, 24 Parganas (Lower Ganga 1090. Borreria stricta (L.f.) Schum. (1891). delta ),Jalpaiguri,Nadia. Life form: Herb Habitat: Open places on dry sandy Family: Rubiaceae soil Distribution: 24 Parganas (Herobhanga). 1085. Adina cordifolia (Roxb.) Benth. & Hook. f. (1873). 1091. Coffea benghalensis Roxb.(1832). Common name: Kali Kadam or Haldu Life form: Shrub Life form: Medium tree, wood hard Habitat: Waste lands, road sides, Habitat: Village shrubberies railway tracks Distribution:Murshidabad,Maldah,Barddhama Distribution:Dinajpur, n,Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Hugli,Koch NorthDinajpur,Barddhaman,Medinipur,Malda Bihar,Bankura,Birbhum, h,Darjiling,Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri, Medinipur,Darjiling, 24 24 Parganas ( Budge Budge),Bankura,,,Koch Parganas( Shyamnagar),Kolkata,Puruliya,,Hao Bihar. ra ,Dinajpur. 1092. Dentella repens (L.) Forsst.(1776). 1086. Anthocephalus chinensis (Lam.) Rich. ex Common name: Bhumipat Walp.(1843). Distribution:Dinajpur Common name: Kadam ,Haora,Darjiling,Maldah,Hugli,Birbhum,Nadi Life form: Large tree a,24 Pgs ( Lower Ganga delta),Koch Habitat: Planted as avenue tree Bihar,Medinipur,Bankura,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata, Distribution: Murshidabad,Puruliya,Barddhaman. Bankura,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad,Birbhum,Ko ch Bihar,Barddhaman,Haora,Darjiling, 1093. Galium asperifolium Wall. Nadia,Puruliya, 24 Life form: Climber Parganas(Bamanpukuria/Minakhan),Medinipu Distribution:Darjiling. r,Kolkata ,Dinajpur, Maldah,Hugli.1094. Galium elegans Wall. 1087. Argostemma sarmentosa Wall. Life form: Climber Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling.257 Life form: Tree 1095. Galium hirtiflorum Req. ex DC. Habitat: Hedges Distribution:Barddhaman, 24 Life form: Climber Parganas(Dakshin Chatra/Ma), Puruliya, Distribution:Darjiling. Medinipur, Bankura, Maldah,Dinajpur ,Birbhum,Koch 1096. Gardenia jasminoides Ellis (1781). Bihar,Jalpaiguri. Common name: Gandharaj Life form: Shrub 1104. Ixora barbata Roxb.(1820). Habitat: Planted as garden plant Distribution:Darjiling,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Barddh Distribution:Haora,Koch Bihar,Nadia,24 aman,Birbhum,Murshidabad,Dinajpur, Pgs(Gobardanga), Jalpaiguri. NorthDinajpur,Haora, Maldah,Nadia,Bankura,Koch 1097. Gardenia latifolia Aiton (1789). Bihar,Medinipur, 24 Parganas,Puruliya. Life form: Tree Habitat: Village thickets 1105. Ixora brunnescens Kurz (1872). Distribution:Nadia,Hugli,Haora,Murshidabad, Distribution: 24 Parganas ,Kolkata. Maldah,Koch Bihar,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri,Darjiling Bankura,Puruliya,Medinipur,Kolkata 24 1106. Ixora coccinea L.(1753). Parganas( Palta) ,Dinajpur,Birbhum. Common name: Rangan Life form: Shrub 1098. Hamelia potens Jacq.(1760). Habitat: Garden edges, hedges Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Hugli ,Haora Life form: Exotic shrub ,Dinajpur,Maldah,Darjiling,Barddhaman, Habitat: Hedges Birbhum, Murshidabad,Medinipur,Koch Distribution:Medinipur,Barddhaman,Koch Bihar,Bankura,Nadia,South 24 Pgs. Bihar, Maldah, ( Gosaba), Puruliya, Kolkata. Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Bankura, Kolkata, Murshidabad, 24 Parganas( Dhopagachhi). 1107. Ixora subsessilis Wall. Cat. 6139 1099. Hedyotis scandens Roxb. Life form: Shrub or small tree Distribution: 24 Parganas . Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling . 1108. Ixora stricta Roxb.(1820). 1100. Hedyotis stipulata R. Br. Life form: Shrub or small tree Habitat: Garden ornamental Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Nadia,Maldah,Medinipur,Puruliy Distribution:Darjiling. a, 24 Parganas ( Dhosarhat),Murshidabad,Haora. 1101. Hymenodictyon flaccidum Wall. Life form: Epiphytic shrub 1109. Ixora undulata Roxb.(1820). Distribution:Darjiling . Common name: Palaka jui Life form: Shrub or small tree 1102. Hymenopogon parasiticus Wall. Habitat: Village shrubbries Life form: Epiphytic shrub Distribution:Kolkata, 24 Distribution:Darjiling. Parganas( Joygram/near Minakhan),Medinipur. 1103. Ixora arborea Roxb. ex Sm. (1811). Common name: Rangan 1110. Knoxia corymbosa Willd.258 Life form: Undershrub 1117. Mussaenda macrophylla Wall. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1111. Knoxia sumatrensis (Retz.) DC.(1830). Life form: Annual shrub 1118.Mussaenda treutleri Stapf Habitat: Village thickets Life form: Shrub Distribution: 24 Parganas (Bamanghata/Salt Distribution:Darjiling. Lake). 1119.Mycetia longifolia (Wall.) O. Kuntze 1112. Luculia grandifolia Ghose Life form: Undershrub Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution:Darjiling. 1120.Nauclea orientalis L.(1962). 1113. Luculia gratissima (Wall.) Sweet Life form: Small tree Life form: Shrub Habitat: Planted as ornamental Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: 24 Parganas( Basanti).1114. Mitragyna parviflora (Roxb.) Korth.(1839). 1121.Neanotis calycina (Wall. ex Hook. f.) W.H. Common name: Kadam Lewis Life form: Large tree Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Avenue tree, parks Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Duttapukur),Bankura,Medinipur,Barddhama n,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar, Birbhum, 1122.Neanotis gracilis (Hook. f.) W. H. Lewis Kolkata,Murshidabad,Hugli Life form: Annual herb ,Dinajpur,Maldah,Haora. Distribution:Darjiling.1115. Morinda citrifolia L.(1753). 1123.Neanotis ingrata (Wall. ex Hook. f.) W. H. Common name: Ach Lewis Life form: Shrub or small tree Life form: Perennial herb Habitat: Planted or escape in the Distribution:Darjiling. villages Distribution:Nadia,Hugli, 24 Parganas (S) 1124.Neanotis wightiana (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) ( Kestopur/near Baguihati) W. H. Lewis ,Dinajpur,Puruliya,Birbhum, Life form: Annual herb Maldah,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Haora. Distribution:Darjiling .1116. Mussaenda glabrata (Hook.f.) Hutch. ex 1125. Oldenlandia biflora L.(1753). Gamble(1921). Common name: Gandha Bhaduli Life form: Shrub Distribution:Nadia,Puruliya,Haora,Maldah, 24 Habitat: Planted in gardens & Parganas orchards ,Kolkata,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad Distribution:Bankura, 24 Parganas( Basanti/public Dinajpur,Darjiling,Hugli,Bankura,Birbhum.. gardens),Maldah,Kolkata,Birbhum,Jalpaiguri, Barddhaman ,Dinajpur,Darjiling,Hugli,Medinipur,Nadia. 1126. Oldenlandia corymbosa L.(1753). Common name: Khet Papra Distribution:Koch Bihar,Barddhaman 259 ,Dinajpur,Nadia,Murshidabad,Haora,Puruliya, 1137.Paederia foetida L.(1767). 24 Parganas , Common name: Ghanda Bhadulia Bankura,Birbhum,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Medini Life form: Twining shrub pur,Maldah,Kolkata,Hugli. Habitat: Hedges & thickets Distribution:Kolkata,Bankura,Hugli,Jalpaiguri 1127. Oldenlandia diffusa (Willd.) Roxb.(1820). ,Murshidabad,South 24 Pgs.(Namkhana), Distribution:Hugli,Medinipur,Haora,Bankura, Medinipur Birbhum,Nadia,Puruliya, 24 Parganas . Maldah,Darjiling,Barddhaman,Nadia ,Dinajpur,Koch Bihar . 1128. Oldenlandia herbacea Roxb.(1820). Distribution:Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas 1138.Paederia scandens (Lour.) Merr. ,Haora,Jalpaiguri ,Murshidabad,Nadia. Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. 1129. Oldenlandia pumila (L.f.) DC. (1830). Common name: Panki 1139.Pavetta indica L.(1753). Distribution:Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas Common name: Kukur-Chura ,Haora,Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Murshidabad. Life form: Bushy shrub Habitat: Village thickets & shrubbries 1130.Ophiorrhiza mungos L. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Canning). Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling . 1140. Psychotria erratica Hook.f. Life form: Undershrub 1131.Oldenlandia nutans C.B.Clarke Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1141. Rubia monjith Roxb. ex Flem. Life form: Climber 1132.Oldenlandia pectinata Arn. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1142.Rubia wallichiana Decne. Life form: Climber 1133.Oldenlandia rugosa Wall. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling . 1143.Spermadictyon suaveolens Roxb. Life form: Shrub 1134.Oldenlandia succirubra King ex Hook. f. Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling . 1144.Wendlandia wallichii Wight & Arn. Life form: Tree 1135.Oldenlandia thomsonii Hook. f. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling . 1145.Xeromphis spinosa (Thunb.) Keay(1958). Common name: Mephal or Madan 1136.Oldenlandia treutlerii Hook.f. Life form: Large shrub Life form: Perennial herb Habitat: Village thickets & old Distribution:Darjiling . clearings of Sunderbans Distribution:Hugli,Medinipur,Maldah,Nadia,S260 outh 24 Pgs.( Kakdwip). 1153.Anaphalis busua (Ham.) Hand.-Mazz. Life form: Annual herb 1146.Xeromphis uliginosa (Retz.) Distribution:Darjiling. Maheshwari(1961). Common name: Piralo 1154.Anaphalis contorta (D. Don) Hook. f. Life form: Small tree or shrub Life form: Suffrutescent herb Habitat: Planted occasionally Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Nadia,Maldah,Barddhaman,Hugli , 24 Parganas (Sarisa, not wild in the district),Haora. 1155.Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. & Hook. f. Life form: Suffrutescent herb Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Asteraceae ( nom. alt.)1156.Anaphalis triplinervis (Sims) C. B. Clarke 1147.Achillea millefolium L. Life form: Suffrutescent herb Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1157.Artemisia dubia Wall. ex DC. 1148.Adenostemma lavenia (L.) O. Kuntze(1891). Life form: Suffrutescent herb Common name: Buro-Keshuti Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling, 24 Parganas . 1158.Artemisia indica Willd. Life form: Undershrub 1149.Ageratum conyzoides L.(1753). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Oochunti Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Very common weed in the 1159.Artemisia japonica Thunb. cult. Lands, along the bank of canals & cracks Life form: Undershrub of old walls Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution:Nadia,,Medinipur,Puruliya,Birbh um, 24 Parganas(Canning, Suryapur) 1160.Bellis perennis L. ,Bankura,Hugli, Life form: Perennial Herb Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Barddhaman,Maldah,Murs Distribution:Darjiling. hidabad,Koch Bihar,Darjiling ,Dinajpur,Haora. 1161.Bidens pilosa L. Life form: Annual herb 1150.Ainslea aptera DC. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Suffrutescent herb Distribution:Darjiling . 1162.Blainvillea acmella (L.) Philipson(1950). Life form: Annual herb 1151.Ainslea latifolia (D. Don) Schulz- Bip. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Lower Ganga Life form: Suffrutescent herb delta). Distribution:Darjiling.1163.Blumea amplectens DC.(1834). 1152.Anaphalis adnata DC. Life form: Small bushy herb Life form: Annual herb Habitat: On the river banks, vill. Distribution:Darjiling. Thickets Distribution:Darjiling ,Nadia ,Birbhum,Bank261 ura,Barddhaman,Hugli,Maldah,Koch Bihar, Distribution:Murshidabad,Barddhaman,Banku Murshidabad,Haora ra,Nadia,Kolkata, 24 Parganas (S) ,Dinajpur,Medinipur,Kolkata,Puruliya, 24 ( Namkhana). Parganas (Duttapukur),Jalpaiguri. 1171.Blumea mollis (D. Don) Merr. (1910 ). 1164.Blumea bifoliata (L.)DC. (1838). Life form: Herb Life form: Small bushy herb Habitat: Waste & unused grounds Habitat: Common on waste lands, Distribution:Barddhaman, 24 road sides & railway tracks Parganas(Basanti),Dinajpur Distribution:Barddhaman,Nadia,Maldah,Murs ,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Maldah,Birbhum. hidabad,Birbhum,Jalpaiguri ,Dinajpur,Haora, Darjiling,Hugli,Bankura,Kolkata,Medinipur, 1172.Blumea oxyodonata DC. (1884). 24 Parganas (S)( Malancha),Puruliya,Koch Life form: Annual Bihar . Habitat: Road sides & waste places Distribution:Murshidabad, 24 Parganas (N) 1165.Blumea fistulosa DC. (1838). ( Titagarh),Nadia. Life form: Herb Habitat: Common in the waste 1173.Caesulia axillaris Roxb. (1798). places, road sides & railway lines Life form: Distribution:South 24 Pgs. ( Budge Budge). Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)( Santoshpur/ near Budge 1166. Blumea hieraciifolia (D. Don) DC. Budge),Maldah,Dinajpur,Dinajpur. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1174.Calendula officinalis L. (1753). Common name: Genda 1167.Blumea procera DC. Life form: Herb Life form: Shrub Habitat: Cultivated in the ornamental Distribution:Darjiling . gardens Distribution:Murshidabad,Puruliya,Darjiling, 1168.Blumea lacera (Burm. f.) DC. (1838). Barddhaman,Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,Bankura,Kol Common name: Kukur-sunga or Kukur-mita kata, Maldah,South 24 Pgs. Life form: Annual aromatic herb (Santoshpur),Hugli,Medinipur, Habitat: Common in the road sides, Haora,Nadia,Birbhum,Koch Bihar. railway tracks Distribution:Puruliya, 24 1175.Carpesium abrotanoides L. Parganas( Arbelia/Dhanyakuria),Medinipur,K Life form: Annual herb olkata,Birbhum,Barddhaman, Distribution:Darjiling. Darjiling,Nadia,Maldah,Bankura,Murshidabad ,Dinajpur,Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Haora. 1176.Carpesium trachellifolium Less. Life form: Annual herb 1169.Blumea laciniata (Roxb.) DC. (1838). Distribution: Darjiling , Life form: Annual aromatic herb Distribution:Koch Bihar,South 24 Pgs. ( Lower Ganga Delta (Frazergunj). 1177.Carthamus tinctorius L. (1753). Common name: Kusum-Bech Life form: Spinous herb 1170.Blumea membranacea DC. (1836). Habitat: Cultivated Life form: Annual aromatic herb Distribution: 24 Parganas Habitat: Waste lands & garden edges ( Bahura),Murshidabad,Nadia,Hugli ,Jalpaig262 uri,Kolkata,Koch Bihar, Medinipur. 1186. Conyza semipinnatifida Wall. Distribution:Nadia,Bankura,Koch 1178. Centipeda minima (L.) A. Br. & Aschers. Bihar,Medinipur,Barddhaman,Haora,Maldah, (1867). Hugli,Birbhum, Puruliya, 24 Parganas ( Near Common name: Mechilta Diamond Harbour, Life form: Small perennial weed Sarisha),Dinajpur ,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata, Habitat: Waste places Murshidabad,Darjiling . Distribution: 24 Parganas ,Darjiling. 1187. Cosmos bipinnatus Cav. 1179. Chrysanthemum coronarium L. (1753). Common name: Cosmos Common name: Chandra Mallika Life form: Exotic herb Life form: Perennial herb Habitat: Ornamental gardens Habitat: Cultivated Distribution: 24 Parganas. Distribution:Nadia,Barddhaman, 24 Parganas, Kolkata,Medinipur,Puruliya,Kolkata,Murshida 1188. Cotula anthemodies L. (1753). bad, Jalpaiguri,Maldah,Koch Life form: Annual herb Bihar,Bankura,Darjiling,Hugli,Dinajpur,Haora Habitat: Waste places ,Birbhum. Distribution:Murshidabad,Hugli,Haora,Jalpaig uri,Medinipur,Kolkata,Koch Bihar,Maldah, 1180. Cicerbita cyanea (D. Don) Beauv. 24 Parganas (S) (Santoshpur/ near Budge Life form: Annual herb Budge). Distribution:Darjiling. 1189. Cotula hemispherica (Roxb.) Wall. 1181. Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. (1772). Life form: Annual herb Common name: Silkanta Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Herb Habitat: Waste lands, weed of cult. 1190. Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Fields Moore Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) ( Rahara). Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1182. Conyza angustifolia Roxb. Life form: Annual herb 1191.Cyathocline purpurea (D. Don) O. Distribution:Darjiling. Kuntze(1891). Life form: Annual herb 1183. Conyza japonica Less. Distribution:Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri, 24 Life form: Annual herb Parganas (S) ( Baruipur, the lower Ganga Distribution:Darjiling . Delta),Maldah, Murshidabad.1184. Conyza stricta Willd. var. pinnatifida (D. Don) 1192.Dahlia imperialis Roezl. Kitam. Life form: Shrub Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling . 1193.Dahlia pinnata Cav. 1185. Conyza stricta Willd. var. stricta Life form: Geophyte Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution:Darjiling. 1194.Dicrocephala integrifolia (L. f.) O. Kuntze263 Life form: Annual herb Baruipur),Kolkata,Medinipur Distribution:Darjiling. ,Dinajpur,Nadia,Bankura.1195.Echnops echinatus Roxb. (1832). 1201.Erigeron canadensis L. Life form: Herb Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Waste places, generally in Distribution:Darjiling . the sandy areas Distribution:Haora,Maldah,Hugli,Murshidaba 1202.Erigeron karwinskianus DC. d, 24 Parganas (S) ( Falta), Kolkata, Life form: Perennial herb Medinipur, Dinajpur. Distribution:Darjiling.1196. Eclipta alba (L.) Hassk. (1848). 1203.Eupatorium adenophorum Spreng. Common name: Kesut Life form: Shrub Distribution:Kolkata,Nadia,Bankura,Maldah, Distribution:Darjiling . Haora,Puruliya,Medinipur, 24 Parganas ,Jalpaiguri, Barddhaman,Hugli,Koch 1204.Eupatorium ligustrinum DC. Bihar,Birbhum,Darjiling Life form: Shrub ,Dinajpur,Murshidabad. Distribution:Darjiling.1197. Elephantopus scaber L. (1753). 1205.Galinsoga quadrirandiata Ruiz & Pavon Common name: Samdulun Life form: Annual herb Life form: Rigid herb Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Commonly grown in orchards Distribution: 24 Parganas( Basanti). 1206.Galinsoga parviflora Cav. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling . 1198. Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. (1834). Common name: Sadi-modi Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Lower Ganga 1207.Glossogyne pinnatifida DC. (1834 ). Delta),Darjiling. Common name: Barangom Santal Life form: Perennial herb Habitat: Sandy grounds 1199. Enhydra fluctuans Lour. (1790). Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)( Tapsia). Common name: Hingcha Life form: Aquatic herb Distribution:Murshidabad,Hugli,Puruliya,Med 1208.Gnaphalium affine D. Don inipur,Kolkata,Haora,Bankura,Nadia,Jalpaigur Life form: Annual herb i, Distribution:Darjiling . 24 Parganas ,Birbhum,Barddhaman,Dinajpur ,Maldah,Koch Bihar. 1209.Gnaphalium indicum L. (1753). Life form: Annual herb 1200. Erigeron sublyrantus L. (1763). Distribution:Murshidabad,Bankura,Koch Life form: Exotic herb Bihar,Haora,Darjiling,Barddhaman,Birbhum,J Habitat: Road sides, scrub-jungles & alpaiguri, waste places Medinipur,Puruliya, 24 Parganas (S) Distribution:Puruliya,Koch ( Sunderbans, lower Ganga Delta), Kolkata, Bihar,Birbhum,Barddhaman,Maldah,Jalpaigur Maldah, Dinajpur, Nadia,Hugli. i,Murshidabad,Hugli, 24 Parganas (S) ( Subuddhipur/ 1210.Gnaphalium luteo-album L. (1753).264 Life form: Annual herb Parganas(Block Farm/ Habitat: Dry waste lands, road side Minakhan),Nadia,Hugli, thickets Koch Bihar. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Lakshmikantapur),Koch 1218. Helianthus tuberosus L. (1753). Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Darjiling . Common name: Brahmokhra Life form: Perennial herb 1211.Gnaphalium pulvinatum Delile (1812). Habitat: Garden herb Distribution:Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas ( Lower Distribution:Dinajpur,Haora,Medinipur, 24 Ganga Delta),Murshidabad,Koch Bihar,Nadia Parganas ( Bamanghata/ Salt Lake . area),Bankura, Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Darjiling,Hugli. 1212.Gnaphalium purpureum L. var. spathulatum (Lam.) Baker Life form: Annual herb 1219. Inula cappa DC. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1213.Grangea maderaspatana (L.) Poir. (1812). Common name: Namuti 1220. Inula eupatorioides Distribution: 24 Parganas Life form: Shrub ,Medinipur,Kolkata,Haora Distribution:Darjiling. ,Dinajpur,Barddhaman,Birbhum,Bankura, Koch Bihar,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Maldah. 1221. Inula rubricaulis (DC.) Benth. Life form: Suffrutescent herb 1214.Guizotica abyssinica (L. f.) Cass. (1829). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name : Ram-Til’ or ‘Surguja Life form: Exotic annual herb 1222. Lactuca graciliflora DC. Habitat: Cultivated crop Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Maldah,Nadia, 24 Parganas Distribution:Darjiling. (Basanti),Medinipur,Murshidabad,Koch Bihar,Darjiling, Jalpaiguri,Bankura,Barddhaman. 1223. Lactuca sativa L. (1753). Common name: Salad Life form: Annual herb 1215. Gynura cusimbua (D. Don) S. Moore Habitat: Cultivated Life form: Undershrub Distribution:Medinipur,Bankura,Jalpaiguri, 24 Distribution:Darjiling. Parganas (N) (Titagarh/ Rahara), ,Dinajpur,Darjiling,Koch Bihar. 1216. Gynura nepalense DC. Life form: Undershrub 1224. Lagascea mollis Cav. (1803). Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Herb Habitat: Road side thickets 1217. Helianthus annus L. (1753). Distribution:Haora, 24 Common name: Surjyamukhi Parganas( Satzelia),Nadia. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Cultivated 1225. Laggera aurita (Willd.) Sch.-Bip. Distribution:Haora,Jalpaiguri,Puruliya,Kolkat Life form: Annual herb a,Barddhaman,Birbhum,Bankura,Dinajpur, Habitat: Vill. Thickets Medinipur,Maldah,Murshidabad,Darjiling, 24 Distribution:Haora,Nadia, 24 265 Parganas( Titagarh/ Khardah). Habitat: Road sides, railway tracks & garbages, occasionally as obnoxious weed in 1226. Laggera flava (DC.) Benth. ex C.B.Clarke agrcult. Distribution:Nadia,Koch (1876). Bihar,Dinajpur,Dinajpur, South 24 Life form: Herb Pgs( Baruipur), Darjiling, Haora, Jalpaiguri, Habitat: Dry waste lands Puruliya,Kolkata, Bankura,Birbhum, Distribution:Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas (S) Medinipur,Murshidabad, (Budge Budge),Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri. Barddhaman,Hugli,Maldah.1227. Launaea asplenifolia DC. (1838). 1235. Pluchera indica (L.) Less. (1831). Common name: Tik-Chanda Life form: Shrub Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Lower Ganga Habitat: Hedges, cultivated region),Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri. Distribution:Hugli,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Murs hidabad,Barddhaman,Nadia,Koch Bihar, 1228. Launaea sarmentosa (Willd.) Alston. 24 Parganas(Amtala). Distribution:Murshidabad,Medinipur, 24 Parganas,Haora,Bankura,Maldah,Jalpaiguri,K 1236. Prenanthes brunoniana Wall. ex DC. och Bihar,Nadia. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1229. Leucanthemum vulgare Lam. Life form: Suffrutescent herb Distribution:Darjiling . 1237. Prenanthes khasiana C. B. Clarke Life form: Annual herb Distribution: Darjiling . 1230. Mikania cordata (Burm. f.) Robinson ( 1934). Common name: ‘Halkalmi’. Life form: Climber 1238. Pseudo-elephantopus spicatus (B.) Juss. ex Habitat: Waste places Abul. (1792). Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Life form: Perennial herb ( Baruipur),Maldah,Bankura,Medinipur,Puruli Habitat: Very rare on river banks ya,Birbhum,Murshidabad Distribution:Haora,Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas , Dinajpur,Nadia,Barddhaman,Koch (S)( Falta),Jalpaiguri,Nadia . Bihar,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Haora. 1239. Pulicaria crispa Sch.-Bip. 1231. Montanoa bipinnatifida C. Koch Life form: Shrub Life form: Shrub Distribution:Koch Bihar,South 24 Pgs. Distribution: Darjiling . ( Diamond Harbour), Murshidabad,Nadia,Jalpaiguri. 1232. Myriactis nepalensis Less. Life form: Annual herb 1240. Saussurea deltoidea (DC.) C. B. Clarke Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1233. Myriactis wallichii Less. Life form: Annual herb 1241. Senecio alatus Wall. ex DC. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1234. Parthenium hysterophorus L. (1753). 1242. Senecio araneosus DC. Life form: Herb266 Life form: Climber Habitat: Waste & low-lands Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Maldah,Birbhum,Barddhaman,Ha ora,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas 1243. Senecio cappa Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don (Garfa), Dinajpur,Dinajpur. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1252. Sonchus oleraceus L. ( 1753). 1244. Senecio linifolius (DC.) C.B.Clarke (1876). Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Waste fields Life form: Herb Distribution:Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas (N) Habitat: Garden beds or in waste ( Sodepur),Darjiling. places Distribution:Darjiling,Koch Bihar,Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri, 24 1253. Sonchus wightianus DC. Parganas (N) ( Titagarh), Barddhaman, Hugli. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1245. Senecio scandens Buch.-Ham . ex D. Don 1254. Sphaeranthus indicus L. (1753). Life form: Shruby climber Common name: Murmuria Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: 24 Parganas ,Maldah,Murshidabad. 1246.Senecio tetranthus DC. Life form: Shruby climber 1255. Spilanthes acmella (L.) Murr. (1774). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Marhatatiga Life form: Annual herb 1247. Senecio wallichii DC. Habitat: Road side waste lands, Life form: Annual herb garden edges, railway tracks Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Bankura, 24 Parganas (S) ( Piyali Nagar/ Fultala),Koch Bihar,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri. 1248. Siegesbeckia orientalis L. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1256. Synedrella nodiflora (L.) Gaertn. (1791). Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Waste lands 1249. Solidago virgoaurea L. Distribution:Puruliya,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas Life form: Suffrutescent herb (S)( Falta),Murshidabad,Nadia,Koch Bihar, Distribution:Darjiling. Dinajpur,Darjiling,Haora.1250. Sonchus asper (L.) Garsault (1767). 1257. Tagetes minuta L. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Waste places, weed of crop Distribution:Darjiling. fields Distribution: 1258. Tagetes patula L. (1753). Darjiling,Maldah,Birbhum,Jalpaiguri,Koch Common name: Chhota-genda Bihar,Puruliya,Kolkata, 24 Parganas Life form: Annual herb (Suryapur),Murshidabad. Habitat: Garden herb Distribution:Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Maldah, 1251. Sonchus brachyotes DC. (1838). 24 Parganas (S)( South Garia),Hugli,Koch Common name: Ban- Palang Bihar,Nadia, Life form: Perennial herb Birbhum,Haora,Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Darjiling,B267 ankura,Medinipur,Kolkata,Puruliya,Barddham Delta, Bireshwarpur) ,Dinajpur,Haora,Maldah, an. Hugli,Birbhum,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri.1259. Taraxacum officinale Weger 1267. Xanthium indicum Koen. (1814). Life form: Perennial herb Common name: Ban-Okra Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Rigid annual Habitat: Waste places, along railway 1260. Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A. Gray lines Life form: Suffrutescent herb Distribution:Haora,Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Da Distribution:Darjiling. rjiling,Murshidabad,Maldah,Birbhum,Nadia,D inajpur,Dinajpur,Koch Bihar,Kolkata,Bankura,Hugli,Medinipur,Purul 1261. Tridax procumbens L. (1753). iya,South 24 Pgs.(Madarhat). Life form: Perennial herb Habitat: Waste lands, road sides etc. Distribution:Puruliya,Birbhum,Maldah,Koch 1268. Youngia japonica (L.) DC. Bihar,Murshidabad,Darjiling,Hugli,Haora,Sou Life form: Perennial herb thDinajpur,Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,B Distribution:Darjiling. ankura, 24 Parganas (S)( Subuddhipur/ Baruipur),Medinipur,Kolkata, Nadia. 1269. Zinnia elegans Jacq. ( 1796). Common name: Zinnia 1262. Vernonia anthelmintica Willd. (1890). Life form: Annual herb Common name: Somraj Habitat: Garden plant Distribution:Haora,Murshidabad, 24 Distribution:Hugli,Kolkata, 24 Parganas Parganas( Bhangankhali),Jalpaiguri,Maldah. (Bamanghata),Medinipur,Bankura,Puruliya,Bi rbhum,Nadia, Maldah 1263. Vernonia cinerea (L.) Less (1829). ,Dinajpur,Barddhaman,Haora,Darjiling,Koch Common name: ‘Kuk-shim’. Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad. Distribution:Barddhaman ,Birbhum, 24 Parganas (S)(Lower Ganga Delta, Subuddhipur),Medinipur,Puruliya 1270. Zinnia pauciflora L. (1762). ,Bankura,Kolkata,Nadia Common name: Zinnia ,Dinajpur,Haora,Koch Life form: Annual herb Bihar,Murshidabad,Darjiling,Maldah,Hugli, Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies, rarely Jalpaiguri. planted Distribution:Maldah, 24 Parganas (N) (Durganagar/ near Dum Dum 1264. Vicoa vestita (Wall. ex DC.) Benth. ex Hook. f. Cant),Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri, Koch Bihar. ( 1881). Distribution:Maldah,Nadia, 24 Parganas (S) ( Sunderbans, Kakdwip),Murshidabad. Family: Campanulaceae1265. Wedelia chinensis (Osbeck.) Merr. (1917). 1271. Campanula pallida Wall. Common name: Kesaraj Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Medinipur, 24 Parganas (S) Distribution:Darjiling. (Magrahat),Koch Bihar,Murshidabad,Nadia,Haora,Jalpaiguri. 1272. Codonopsis affinis Hook. f. & Thoms. Life form: Climber 1266. Wedelia biflora (L.) DC. (1834). Distribution:Darjiling . Common name: Bhimraj Distribution:South 24 Pgs. (Lower Ganga 1273. Codonopsis inflata Hook. f. & Thoms.268 Life form: Climber Dinajpur,Darjiling,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri,Na Distribution:Darjiling. dia,South 24 Pgs. (Dhakuria, Belgharia ).1274. Percarpa carnosa (Wall.) Hook. f. & Thoms. 1280. Anagalis pumila Sw. (1788). Life form: Annual herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling . Habitat: Bunds of agricultural fields, waste shady places 1275. Wahlenbergia marginata (Thunb.) DC. (1830). Distribution:South 24 Pgs. (Lower Ganga Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Lower Ganga Delta, Baguihati ). Delta, Diamond Harbour ),Jalpaiguri . 1281. Lysimachia alternifolia Wall. Family: Sphenocleaceae Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1276. Sphenoclea zeylanica Gaertn. (1788). Common name: Jhil-marich 1282. Lysimachia congestiflora Hemsl. Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Lower Ganga Life form: Annual herb Delta, Canning ). Distribution:Darjiling.Family: Plumbaginaceae 1283. Lysimachia debilis Wall. Life form: Perennial herb 1277. Aegialitis rotundifolia Roxb. (1824). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Tora Life form: Shrub or low tree 1284. Lysimachia evalis Wall. Habitat: River flat & inter-tidal ridge Life form: Perennial herb forest Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Medinipur ,South 24 Pgs. (Sanjnakhali ). 1285. Lysimachia. prolifera Klatt Life form: Annual herb 1278. Plumbago zeylanica L. (1753). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Chita Life form: Perennial herb 1286. Lysimachia ramosa Wall. ex Dudy Habitat: Amongst bushes & waste Life form: Annual herb places Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Medinipur,Bankura,,Kolkata,Jalp aiguri,Maldah,Nadia,Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Haora 1287. Primula denticulata Smith , Life form: Annual herb Murshidabad,Birbhum,Hugli,Barddhaman,Ko Distribution:Darjiling. ch Bihar,Darjiling, 24 Parganas ( Bahuru ). 1288. Primula edgwarthii (Hook. f.) Pax Family: Primulaceae Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling . 1279. Anagallis arvensis L. (1753). Common name: Jon Kamari 1289. Primula melacoides Franc. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Bunds of agricultural fields, Distribution:Darjiling. waste shady places Distribution:Maldah,Murshidabad,Medinipur, 1290. Primula petiolaris Wall. Koch Life form: Annual herb Bihar,Haora,Hugli,Birbhum,Kolkata,Dinajpur, Distribution:Darjiling .269 Common name: Sabeda 1291. Primula umbellata (Lour.) Bentv. (1962). Life form: Medium tree Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Planted in the orchards Distribution:Murshidabad,Nadia, 24 Parganas( Distribution:Maldah,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Koch Nilgunj ),Koch Bihar,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri. Bihar,Hugli,Medinipur, 24 Parganas (Subuddhipur/ Baruipur),Dinajpur,Birbhum,Haora,Kolkata. Family: Myrsinaceae1300. Madhuca longifolia (Koen.) Macbr. (1911). 1292. Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco ( 1837). Life form: Large tree Common name: Khalsi Habitat: Planted or wild in villages Life form: Small tree or shrub Distribution:,Dinajpur,Koch Habitat: Common on the mid- Bihar,Bankura,Birbhum,Murshidabad,Jalpaigu estuary, in river flats inter-tidal ridge forests ri,Nadia,Puruliya, Distribution:Medinipur, 24 Kolkata,Hugli,Maldah,South 24 Pgs.(Bakkhali Parganas(Rangabelia ). ),Medinipur. 1293. Ardisia solanacea (Poir.) Roxb. (1795). 1301. Manilkara hexandra (Roxb.) Dub.(1915). Common name: Ban Jam Common name: Bilati Bakul Life form: Large shrub or small tree Life form: Large tree Habitat: Damp shady places Habitat: In the core forest of tidal Distribution:Birbhum,South 24 Pgs. mangrove forests (Santoshpur/ near Budge Distribution:South 24 Pgs. (Sunderban, at Budge ),Murshidabad,Koch Bihar,Nadia, Netidhopani, Narendrapur ). Haora,Jalpaiguri. 1302. Mimusops elengi L.(1753). 1294. Ardisia involucrata Kurz Common name: Bakul Life form: Shrub Life form: Medium tree Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Planted on the road sides & in parks and gardens 1295. Embelia floribunda Wall. Distribution:Maldah,Jalpaiguri, 24 Life form Shruby climber Parganas(Gosaba ),Medinipur ,Puruliya,Banku Distribution:Darjiling. ra,Birbhum,Nadia, Kolkata,,Dinajpur,Murshidabad,Barddhaman, 1296. Embelia ribes Burm. f. Hugli,Koch Bihar,Haora. Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Ebenaceae1297. Maesa chisia Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don 1303. Diospyros chloroxylon Roxb.(1795). Life form: Shrub Common name: Anduli Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Medium tree Habitat: Cult. As ornamental tree 1298. Myrsine semiserrata Wall. Distribution:Birbhum,Medinipur, 24 Life form: Shrub Parganas( Bahuru ),Bankura,Maldah,Dinajpur, Distribution:Darjiling . Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Haora.Family: Sapotaceae 1304. Diospyros cordifolia Roxb.(1795). Common name: Ban-Gab 1299. Manillkara zapota L.(1753). Life form: Small tree Habitat: Vill. Tickets as wild270 Distribution:Haora,Puruliya,Murshidabad,Jalp Distribution:Murshidabad,Barddhaman,Haora, aiguri,Bankura,Medinipur, 24 Parganas ( Jalpaiguri,Maldah,Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas Duttapukur ). (Bamanghata/Salt Lake ),Kolkata,Medinipur,Puruliya. 1305. Diospyros discolor Willd.(1806). Common name: Bilati-Gab 1313. Jasminum sambac (L.) Aiton (1789). Life form: Medium tree Common name: Ban Mallika or Bel Phul Habitat: Planted Life form: Shrub Distribution:Koch Bihar. 24 Distribution:Barddhaman,Koch Parganas( Sodepur ),Medinipur,Birbhum,,Din Bihar,Kolkata,Hugli, 24 ajpur,Hugli,Maldah. Parganas( Chaital ),Haora,Maldah,Jalpaiguri.1306. Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel.(1834). 1314. Ligastrum confusum Decaisheet. Common name: Gab Life form: Tree Life form: Medium-large tree Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies Distribution:,Dinajpur,South 24 Pgs. 1315. Ligastrum lucidum Aiton f. ( Falta ),Bankura,Nadia,Haora,Barddhaman. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Oleaceae Family: Nyctaginaceae 1307. Fraxinus floribunda Wall. Life form: Tree 1316. Nyctanthes arbor-tristis L.(1753). Distribution:Darjiling . Common name: Sephalika/Seoli Life form: Shrub or small tree 1308. Jasminum auriculatum Vahl(1794). Habitat: Cultivated Common name: Jui or Yothika Distribution:Birbhum,Murshidabad,Koch Life form: Scandent shrub Bihar,Dinajpur,Darjiling,Nadia,Maldah,Haora Habitat: Cult. In the gardens Bankura,Puruliya,Kolkata,Medinipur, 24 Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Parganas (N)( Surjyapur, Belgharia, ( Narendrapur ),Koch Barrackpore ),Jalpaiguri, Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Murshidabad. Hugli,Barddhaman1309. Jasminum dispermum Wall. Family: Salvadoraceae Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. 1317. Azima tetracantina Lam. (1783). Common name: Trikanta-Gati 1310. Jasminum humile L. Life form: Armed shrub Life form: Shrub Habitat: Rarely on the hedges & Distribution:Darjiling. thickets of Sunderban areas Distribution: 24 Parganas 1311. Jasminum mesneyi Hance ( Piyalinagar/Baruipur). Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Apocynaceae1312. Jasminum multiflorum (Burm. f.) Andr. 1318. Aganosma caryophyllata (Roxb. ex Sims. ) G. (1807). Don. (1837). Common name: Kunda Life form: Twining shrub Life form: Shrub Habitat: On bushes271 Distribution:Nadia,Koch 1324. Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don(1837). Bihar,Darjiling,Maldah,Hugli,Haora, 24 Common name: Nayantara Parganas( Satzelia),Bankura,Jalpaiguri,Barddh Life form: Herb aman,Kolkata,Medinipur,Dinajpur,Puruliya,Bi Habitat: Cult. Or as an escape in rbhum,Murshidabad. waste places Distribution:Kolkata,Medinipur,Puruliya,Ban 1319. Allamanda cathartica L.(1771). kura,Nadia,Darjiling,Koch Bihar,Dinajpur, Common name: Har-kara Murshidabad,Haora,Maldah,Birbhum,Hugli,Ja Life form: Climbing shrub lpaiguri,Barddhaman, 24 Parganas Habitat: Planted or selfshown (Kholapota/Basirhat). Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Maldah, Murshidabad,Kolkata, 24 Parganas (S) 1325. Cerbera odollam Gaertn.(1791). (Diamond Harbour), Common name: Dabur Hugli,Nadia,Koch Bihar,Medinipur. Life form: Small tree Habitat: Coastal beach/swamp 1320. Alstonia scholaris (L.) R. Br.(1810). forests Common name: Chhatim Distribution:Bankura, 24 Parganas( Lower Life form: Tree Ganga Delta Habitat: Planted or self shown in the (Gocharan/Sarbera),Jalpaiguri,Nadia, illage thickets Murshidabad. Distribution:Birbhum,Hugli,Bankura,Puruliya, Darjiling,Medinipur, 24 Parganas( Baruipur, 1326. Holarrhena pubescens (Buch.-Ham.) Wall. Belgharia),Kolkata,Haora,Nadia,Maldah,Jalpa (1829). iguri,Barddhaman,Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Murshid Common name: Kurchi abad, Koch Bihar. Life form: Small tree Habitat: Coastal mangrove areas 1321. Carissa carandas L.(1767). Distribution:Puruliya, 24 Parganas (S)( Lower Common name: Karamcha Ganga Delta Life form: Large shrub (Kakdwip),Bankura,Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Birbhu Habitat: Hedges m,Barddhaman,Nadia,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Kolkat Distribution:Medinipur,Kolkata,Bankura,Nadi a,Medinipur,Haora,Koch Bihar,Darjiling, a,Birbhum,Barddhaman, 24 Parganas (Sagar Maldah, Murshidabad. Islands/Mansadeep),Puruliya,Murshidabad,Ma ldah,Hugli,Jalpaiguri. 1327. Ichnocarpus frutescens (L.) R. Brown(1899). Common name: Shyamalata or Dudhilata 1322. Carissa spinarum L.(1771). Life form: Large climber Life form: Undershrub Habitat: Hedges, thickets, prefer Habitat: Vill. Thickets moist situations Distribution: Hugli,Koch Bihar,Haora, 24 Distribution:Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Maldah,Bardd Parganas ( Sagar haman ,Koch Islands),Maldah,Birbhum,Murshidabad. Bihar,Darjiling,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Puruliya, Nadia,Murshidabad,Bankura,Medinipur,Birbh um,Haora, 24 Parganas ( Beliachandi). 1323. Catharanthus pusillus G. Don(1837). Life form: Ann. Herb Habitat: Waste lands & vill. Thickets 1328. Nerium indicum Mill.(1768). Distribution:Haora,Bankura, 24 Common name: Karabi Parganas( Kazipara/Barasat),Medinipur,Nadia, Life form: Shrub/small tree Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri. Habitat: Hedges Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Sagar/Mansadwip),Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Hugli,272 Murshidabad,Birbhum, railway tracks & roadsides Barddhaman,Bankura,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,M Distribution: 24 Parganas aldah,Nadia,Koch Bihar. ( Bahuru),Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar.1329. Parsonsia spiralis Wall.(1828). 1335. Tabernamontana divaricata (L.) R. Br. (1819). Life form: Twining shrub Common name: Tagar Habitat: Vill. Thickets Life form: Shrub Distribution:Murshidabad,Maldah,Jalpaiguri, Habitat: Cultivated 24 Parganas (S)( Sunderbans). Distribution:Maldah,Haora,Murshidabad,Koc h 1330. Plumeria alba L.(1753). Bihar,Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Darjiling,Barddhama Common name: Sada Gour Champa n,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Medinipur,Nadia,Birbhum, Life form: Tree Puruliya, 24 Parganas (S) Habitat: Planted in gardens, sides of (Gocharan/Sarberia),Bankura,Kolkata. roads Distribution:Birbhum,Medinipur, 24 Parganas 1336. Thevitia peruviana (Pers.) Schum.(1895). ( Baguihati),Kolkata,Puruliya,Hugli,Haora,Ba Common name: Kalkephul nkura, Jalpaiguri,Koch Life form: Large shrub or small tree Bihar,Nadia,Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Murshidabad. Distribution:Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Maldah, Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Medinipur,Kolkata,Hugli,B 1331. Plumeria rubra L.(1753). irbhum, Bankura,Haora, Puruliya,Koch Common name: Gour Champa Bihar,Barddhaman, Nadia, 24 Parganas (S) Life form: Small tree ( Sunderbans). Distribution:Koch Bihar,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Birbhum, 1337. Vallaris solanacea (Roth) O. Kuntze(1891). 24 Parganas (N)( Ichhapur),Nadia, Common name: Haper Mali Murshidabad. Life form: Twining shrub Habitat: Rarely found in vill. 1332. Plumeria rubra L. forma acuminata (Aiton) Thickets & hedges Woodson(1938). Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) Life form: Small tree ( Magrahat),Koch Bihar. Distribution:Medinipur, 24 Parganas (S) ( hakurpukur),Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Birbhum,Hug 1338. Vinca minor L. li,Murshidabad, Life form: Undershrub Barddhaman,Puruliya. Distribution:Darjiling .1333. Rauvolfia serpentina (L.) Benth. ex 1339. Writghtia tinctoria R. Brown(1811). Kurz(1877). Common name: Indra Jau Common name: Sarpagandha Life form: Small tree Life form: Small herb Habitat: Rarely cultivated Habitat: Hedges, roadsides, jungles Distribution:Medinipur,Hugli,Dinajpur,Dinajp & on the railway tracks ur,Barddhaman,Maldah,Jalpaiguri, Birbhum, Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) 24 Parganas( Mollakhali). ( Madarhat),Hugli,Darjiling,Haora,Koch Bihar,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri. 1340. Writghtia tomentosa Roem.&Schult.(1819). Common name: Dudh Karabi 1334. Rauvolfia tetraphylla L.(1753). Life form: Small tree Life form: Small shrub Habitat: Planted in the public Habitat: On damp waste places, gardens273 Distribution:Bankura,Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Kolka ta,Murshidabad,Hugli,Koch Bihar, 24 1347. Ceropegia pubescens Wall. Parganas (Dakshin Barasat, indigenous near Life form: Climber Kolkata),Medinipur,Haora. Distribution:Darjiling .Family: Asclepiadaceae 1348. Cryptolepis chinensis (Lour.) Merrill Life form: Climber 1341. Asclepias curassavica L.(1753). Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Herb Habitat: In village shade 1349. Dischidia nummularia R. Br. Distribution:Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Hugli ,Darjili Common name: Pargachha ng,Koch Bihar,Murshidabad, 24 Life form: Very slender herb Parganas( Sonarpur ), Habitat: Epiphytic on large tree Bankura,Medinipur,Puruliya,Nadia. Distribution: 24 Parganas( Nilgunj ).1342. Calotropis gigentea (L.) R. Br. (1811). 1350. Dregea volubilis (L.f.) Benth. ex Hook. f. Common name: Akanda (1883). Life form: Shrub or small tree Common name: Tita-Kunga Habitat: Waste, open dry lands, Life form: Herb roadsides & railway tracks Habitat: Hedges & thickets Distribution:Maldah,Haora,Nadia,South 24 Distribution:Hugli, 24 Parganas (S) ( Jugdia Pgs.( Baruipur ),Puruliya,Medinipur. Benipur/near Magrahat ).1343. Calotropis procera (Aiton) R. Br. (1811). 1351. Finlaysonia obovate Wall.(1831). Common name: Sada Akanda Common name: Dudhi Lata Life form: Shrub Distribution:Koch Bihar,Nadia, 24 Parganas Habitat: Waste, dry, open sandy (S) (Lower Ganga Delta ),Medinipur. areas Distribution:Medinipur,Barddhaman,Koch 1352. Gymnema thomsonii Hook. f. Bihar, 24 Parganas (S) Life form: Shruby climber (Piyalinagar/Baruipur ). Distribution:Darjiling.1344. Ceropegia macrantha Wight (1883). 1353. Hoya lanceolata Wall. ex D. Don Life form: Twining herb Life form: Epiphytic undershrub Habitat: Vill. Thickets, Distribution:Darjiling. climbing/twining on the bushes Distribution:Puruliya, 24 Parganas (S) ( Suparibhanga/Sagar 1354. Hoya linearis Wall. ex D. Don Islands ),Haora,Jalpaiguri,Dinajpur,Koch Life form: Epiphytic undershrub Bihar,Murshidabad,Hugli,Maldah. Distribution:Darjiling.1345. Ceropegia longifolia Wall. var. longifolia 1355. Hoya parasitica Wall. Life form: Climber Common name: Pargachha Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Plants with stout stem Habitat: Commonly epiphytic on the Ficus sp. & Mangifera indica 1346. Ceropegia longifolia Wall. var. darjilingensis Distribution:Medinipur,Puruliya,Nadia,South A.P. Das 24 Pgs.(Gobardanga ),Murshidabad,Koch Life form: Climber Bihar,Haora, Distribution:Darjiling. Jalpaiguri.274 1365. Tylophora tenuis Blume (1826). 1356. Hoya serpens Hook. f. Life form: Twiner Life form: Epiphytic undershrub Distribution: South 24 Pgs.(Sagar Distribution:Darjiling. Islands ),Jalpaiguri,Haora,Maldah.1357. Oxystelma secamone (L.) K. Schum.(1895). Family: Periplocaceae Common name: Kirmi Distribution:Medinipur,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Koch 1366. Cryptolepis buchanani Roem. & Scult.(1819). Bihar,Birbhum,Hugli,Kolkata,South 24 Pgs. Common name: Karanata ( Lower Ganga Delta ),Maldah. Life form: Shrub, twining in nature Habitat: Hedges & vill. Shrubberies 1358. Pentatropis capensis (L.f.) Bullock (1955). Distribution: 24 Distribution: 24 Parganas ,Jalpaiguri Parganas(Dhosha/Chandaneswar ),Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Murshidabad. 1359. Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Choiv.(1916). Common name: Chhagal Bati 1367. Cryptostegia grandiflora R. Br. (1819). Distribution:Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Barddhaman, Life form: Climber Jalpaiguri,Medinipur,Bankura, 24 Habitat: Planted in gardens Parganas( Suryapur ), Haora, Distribution:South 24 Pgs. ( Dhakuria ),Koch Murshidabad,Koch Bihar,Darjiling. Bihar,Maldah.1360. Periploca callophylla (Wt.) Falc. 1368. Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R. Br. (1811). Life form: Shruby climber Common name: Ananta Mul Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Twining shrub Habitat: Shady, moist localities Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) 1361. Sarcolobus carinatus Wall. (1816). ( Baruipur ),Maldah,Darjiling,Koch Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Sunderbans, Bihar,Murshidabad,Medinipur, Barddhaman. Sajnakhali ).Family: Loganiaceae 1362. Telosma pallida (Roxb.) Craib (1911). Distribution: 24 Parganas ,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad,Nadia. 1369. Buddleja asiatica Lour.(1790). Common name: Nimda/Bad-bhota Life form: Shrub 1363. Treutlera insignis Hook. f. Habitat: Hedges Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Murshidabad,Dinajpur,Dinajpur, Distribution:Darjiling. Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas(Bamanghata ), Jalpaiguri,Maldah. 1364. Tylophora indica (Burm. f. ) Merrill ( 1921). Common name: Anantamul 1370. Cynoctonum mitreola (L.) Britton(1894). Life form: Twiner Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) Habitat: Rarely grow on hedges & vill. ( Ichhapur ),Jalpaiguri. Thickets Distribution: Family: Menyanthaceae Birbhum,Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Haora,Kolkata,So uth 24 Pgs.( Harinbari/Sagar Islands ), Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Maldah,Medinipur,Hu 1371. Canscora decussata (Roxb.) Roem. & Scult. gli. (1822). Common name: Dankuni Life form: Herb275 Habitat: Grassy places, paths & Parganas( Bamanghata ),Koch Bihar. waste grounds Distribution:Murshidabad,Nadia,Kolkata,Sout Family: Hydrophyllaceae h 24 Pgs. (Basirhat/Kholapota ),Birbhum,Maldah, 1378. Hydrolea zeylanica (L.) Vahl(1791). Barddhaman,Koch Bihar,Medinipur. Common name: Kasschra Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) 1372. Canscora diffusa (Vahl.) R. Br. (1810). (Sitakundu/Baruipur ),Maldah,Nadia,Jalpaigur Life form: Herb i,Haora,Barddhaman, Medinipur,Koch Habitat: Grassy places, sde of paths, Bihar,Murshidabad. in fallow field Distribution:Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Koch Family: Ehretiaceae Bihar,Maldah,Hugli,Nadia,Haor,Jalpaiguri,Me dinipur, 24 Parganas (S)( Behala ). 1379. Cordia dichotoma Forsst. f.(1786). Common name: Lashora 1373. Centaurium centaurioides (Roxb.) Rao Life form: Small tree & Kammathy(1970). Habitat: Hedges, rarely cultivated Common name: Gima Distribution:Medinipur,Kolkata,South 24 Distribution: 24 Pgs.(Chemagari/Sagar Islands,Maldah ), Parganas( Mollakhali ),Jalpaiguri,Murshidaba Jalpaiguri,Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Barddhaman. d,Maldah. 1380. Cordia sebestena L.(1753). 1374. Exacum pedunculatum L.(1753). Common name: Bokhaf or Bohari Life form: Aquatic herb Life form: Small tree Distribution:Medinipur,Murshidabad,Koch Habitat: Planted in public gardens Bihar,Nadia, 24 Parganas (S)( Sarisha/near Distribution: 24 Diamond Harbour ). Parganas( Dhakuria ),Kolkata,Dinajpur,Dinajp ur,Birbhum. 1375. Nymphoides hydrophylla (Lour.) O. Kuntze(1891). 1381. Ehretia serrata Roxb.(1820). Common name: Pan-chuli Common name: Kula-aja Life form: Aquatic herb Life form: Medium sized tree Distribution:Birbhum,Koch Habitat: Vill. Thickets Bihar,Maldah,Murshidabad,Haora,Jalpaiguri, Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) ( Kestopur/ near Bankura,Dinajpur,Dinajpur, Barddhaman, 24 Baguihati ). Parganas (Mallickpur ),Kolkata,Medinipur,Nadia. Family: Boraginaceae1376. Nymphoides indicum (L.) O. Kuntze (1891). 1382. Coldenia procumbens L.(1753). Life form: Aquatic herb Common name: Triphunki Distribution:Hugli,Barddhaman, 24 Parganas Life form: Herb (S)( Sashan ), Jalpaiguri,Maldah. Habitat: Moist places, dry paddy fields Family: Polemoniaceae Distribution:Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas (N) ( Titagarh ),Hugli. 1377. Phlox drummondi Hook. Life form: Ann. Herb 1383. Heliotropium curassavicum L.(1753). Habitat: Commonly planted Common name: Nona hatisur Distribution: 24 Life form: Halophytic herb276 Distribution:Murshidabad,Medinipur,Koch Thickets Bihar,Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,Hugli, 24 Parganas Distribution:Koch (Minakhan),Maldah. Bihar,Birbhum,Hugli,Medinipur, 24 Parganas (S)( Garia Rly. Station),Barddhaman, 1384. Heliotropium indicum L.(1753). Maldah,Dinajpur . Common name: Hatisur Life form: Annual herb 1391. Evolvulus alsinoides (L.) L.(1762). Habitat: Waste places, rubbish heaps Life form: Herb etc. Habitat: Open grass-lands, waste Distribution:Dinajpur, 24 Parganas places & roadsides (Khodarbazar/Baruipur ), Medinipur, Bankura, Kolkata,Nadia, Birbhum,Haora. Distribution:Murshidabad,Haora,Maldah,Jalpaig uri,Koch Bihar,Puruliya,Nadia, 24 Parganas 1385. Heliotropium ovalifolium Forssk. (1775). ( Goranbose/Sunderbans),Medinipur. Common name: Nag-phuli Life form: Sub-aquatic herb 1392. Hewittia sublobata (L.f.) O.K.Rev.(1891). Habitat: Roadsides & railway tracks Common name: Jarad Kalmi Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Amtala ). Life form: Twining herb Habitat: Hedges & thickets of waste 1386. Heliotropium strigosum Willd.(1798). places Common name: Chiti-phul Distribution: 24 Life form: Herb Parganas( Haroa),Hugli,Haora. Habitat: Waste places & railway tracks 1393. Ipomea aquatica Forssk.(1775). Distribution: Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas Common name: Kalmi Sak (Ghoshpur/Kulti Lock Gate ). Life form: Aquatic, floating herb Habitat: Wet lands 1387. Myosotis sylvatica Hoffm. Distribution:Nadia,Medinipur, 24 Parganas Life form: Annual herb (Khodarbazar),Puruliya,Maldah,Haora,Birbhu Distribution:Darjiling . m,Darjiling, Koch Family: Convolvulaceae Bihar,Barddhaman,Murshidabad,Dinajpur,Jalp aiguri. 1388. Argyreia hookeri C.B. Clarke (1883). Life form: Large climbing shrub 1394. Ipomea batatas (L.) Lam.(1793). Habitat: Hedges Common name: Mitha-Alu Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Baruipur), Koch Life form: Herb Bihar. Habitat: Cultivated in sandy soils Distribution:Haora,Hugli,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Ko 1389. Argyreia nervosa (Burm.f.) Boj. (1837). ch Bihar,Kolkata, 24 Parganas (S) Common name: Guguli or Bich-tarak (Baruipur),Puruliya. Life form: Large woody climber Habitat: Planted in gardens, climbing 1395. Ipomea cairica (L.) Sweet (1827). on the walls Life form: Twining shrub Distribution:Jalpaiguri,South 24 Pgs. Habitat: Climing on bushes ( Magrahat). Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad, 24 Parganas (S)( Bamanghata/Salt Lake). 1390. Convolvulus arvensis L.(1753). Life form: Trailing or twining herb 1396. Ipomea eriocarpa R. Br.(1810). Habitat: Rare in Distribution, on vill.277 Life form: Twining annual shrub Life form: Annual herb Habitat: On bushes Habitat: In the waste places Distribution:Maldah,Dinajpur, 24 Parganas Distribution:Medinipur,Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Sou (N)( Ichhapur),Birbhum . th 24 Pgs. ( Barasat),Puruliya,Bankura,Jalpaiguri, 1397. Ipomea carnea Jacq. ssp. fistulosa (Mart. ex Darjiling,Murshidabad,Koch Choisy) Bihar,Birbhum,Kolkata. Life form: Large straggling shrub Distribution:Puruliya,Murshidabad,Kolkata,B 1404. Ipomea sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb.(1814). ankura,Medinipur,Birbhum,Koch Common name: Ban-Kalmi Bihar,Dinajpur,Haora,Maldah,Darjiling,Hugli, Life form: Twiner Jalpaiguri,Nadia, 24 Parganas (S) Habitat: Vill. Thickets & waste (Sonarpur),Barddhaman. places Distribution:Murshidabad, South 24 1398. Ipomea mauritiana Jacq.(1791) Pgs( Ghoramara/Sagar Islands,Medinipur, Common name: Bhui Kumra Hugli, Barddhaman, Maldah,Koch Life form: Twiner or scandent shrub Bihar,Jalpaiguri. Habitat: On grassy grounds & scrub- jungles 1405. Ipomea tuba (Schlecht.) G. Don(1838). Distribution:Medinipur,Barddhaman,Haora, Life form: Twining shrub 24 Parganas (S)( Kakdwip),Jalpaiguri. Habitat: Coastal regions Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Sagar 1399. Ipomea nil (L.) Roth(1797). Islands/Handelketki),Jalpaiguri. Common name: Nil Kalmi Life form: Twining annual herb 1406. Lepistemon binectariferum (Wall.) Rev. Habitat: Waste lands as wild (1891). Distribution:Medinipur ,Koch Bihar,Kolkata, 24 Life form: Climbing herb Parganas( Duttapukur). Habitat: Very rare on the vill. Thickets 1400. Ipomea obscura (L.) Ker.(1817). Distribution:Koch Bihar,Medinipur, 24 Habitat: Hedges & thickets Parganas (Taki Madhyampur),Murshidabad. Distribution:Hugli,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas (S)( Dhakuria),Barddhaman. 1407. Merremia gangetica (L.) Cufodont. (1961). Common name: Bhui Kamari 1401. Ipomea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet(1818). Life form: Creeping herb Common name: Chagar Kuri Habitat: In the grassy gardens & Life form: Herb open sandy areas Distribution:Medinipur,South 24 Pgs.(Sagar Distribution: 24 Islands). Parganas( Durganagar),Maldah,Birbhum,Dinaj pur,Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri. 1402. Ipomea purpurea Roth(1787). Life form: Twiner 1408. Merremia hederacea (Burm. f.) Hallier f. Habitat: Garden plant (1894). Distribution:Nadia,Darjiling,Haora,Jalpaiguri, Life form: Twining or climbing herb Koch Bihar, 24 Habitat: On small bushes Parganas( Kalyanpur),Medinipur . Distribution:Maldah,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas (S) (Baruipur/Khoderbazar),Murshidabad. 1403. Ipomea quamoclit L.(1753). Common name: Taru-Lata 1409. Merremia hirta (L.) Merrill (1917).278 Life form: Very small twining herb Habitat: Forming dense mass on low Habitat: Occasionally in gaps of trees/shrubs stone of the railway tracks Distribution:Murshidabad,Darjiling,Barddham Distribution:Medinipur,Koch an,Jalpaiguri,Dinajpur,Medinipur,Nadia,Haora Bihar,Haora,Jalpaiguri, 24 , Koch Parganas( Kalyanpur),Hugli. Bihar,Hugli,Maldah,Bankura,Puruliya,Kolkata ,South 24 Pgs. (Madarhat/Baruipur ),Birbhum. 1410. Operculina turpethum (L.) Manso.(1836). Common name: Dudh Kolmi or Tohri Family: Solanaceae Life form: Twiner Habitat: On waste places & vill. 1417. Browalia alata L. Thickets Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas (S) Distribution:Darjiling . ( Harinbari/Sagar Islands),Medinipur. 1418. Capsicum frutescens L.(1753). 1411. Porana paniculata Roxb.(1815). Common name: Dhani Lanka Life form: Large climbing shrub Life form: Shrub Habitat: Climbing on trees Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Maldah,Koch Bihar,Hugli, 24 Distribution: South 24 Pgs. (Harinbari/Sagar Parganas (Bamanghata/Salt Islands ). Lake),Barddhaman, Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri . 1419. Cestrum aurantiacum Lindl. Life form: Shrub 1412. Porana grandiflora Wall. Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Climber Distribution:Darjiling . 1420. Cestrum diurnum L.(1753). Common name: Buno-Hasnu Hana 1413. Porana racemosa Roxb. Life form: Medium shrub Life form: Climber Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies & railway Distribution:Darjiling . tracks Distribution:Koch 1414. Stictocardia tilifolia (Desr.) Hallier. f.(1894). Bihar,Birbhum,Haora,Puruliya,Barddhaman, Life form: Woody twiner Maldah, 24 Parganas (S) (Garia, Habitat: Climbing on bushes & also Joynagar),Medinipur,Bankura,Murshidabad,Ja trailing on grounds lpaiguri. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)(Bakkhali). 1421. Cestrum elegans Schlecht. Life form: Shrub 1415. Volvulopsis nummularia (L.) Roberty(1852). Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Herb Habitat: In the moist lands Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) 1422. Cestrum nocturnum L.(1753). ( Dehimedanmallapur/Mallickpur),Jalpaiguri. Common name: Hasnu-Hana Life form: Shrub Distribution:Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Maldah,Mursh Family: Cuscutaceae idabad,Kolkata,Haora,Jalpaiguri,KochBihar,D arjiling, 1416. Cuscuta reflexa Roxb.(1799). Nadia,Birbhum,Barddhaman,South 24 Pgs. Common name: Swarnalata ( Barasat ),Hugli,Medinipur,Bankura. Life form: Leafless, yellow parasitic herb279 1423. Cyphomandra betacea (Cav.) Sendt. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1430. Nicotiana plumbaginifolia Viu(1802). Common name: Ban-Tamak 1424. Datura fastuosa L.(1959). Life form: Herb Common name: Sada Dhutra Habitat: Along the sides of canals, Life form: Herb-undershrub roadside thickets Habitat: Waste places, near Distribution:Bankura,Kolkata,Koch roadsides, railway tracks & sandy areas of the Bihar,Hugli,Medinipur,Haora,South 24 Pgs. coastal lands (Dhanyakuria, Haroa,Budge Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Madarhat, Budge ),Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Maldah,Bard Malirdhar ),Murshidabad,Maldah,Hugli, dhaman. Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman. 1431. Nicotiana tabacum L.(1753). 1425. Datura stramonium L.(1753). Common name: Tamak or Tamaku Common name: Kalo-Dhutra Life form: Herb Life form: Undershrub Habitat: Rarely cultivated in the Habitat: Very rare on the vill. public gardens Thickets, common in sandy areas Distribution:Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,South 24 Distribution:Kolkata,Haora,Barddhaman,Birb Pgs.( Lower Ganga hum,Hugli,Darjiling,Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri, Delta ),Bankura,Nadia,Murshidabad, Koch Haora,Koch Bihar,Darjiling,Puruliya. Bihar,Maldah,Dinajpur,Puruliya,Medinipur,So uth 24 Pgs.( Diamond 1432. Physalis minima L.(1753). Harbour ),Bankura,Nadia. Common name: Ban-Tipariya Life form: Annual herb 1426. Datura suaveolens Humb. & Bonpl. ssp. Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Haora,South 24 suaveolens Pgs.(Garia, Budge Budge, Masjidbati ). Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1433. Physalis peruviana L.(1753). Common name: Tipariya 1427. Datura suaveolens Humb. & Bonpl. ssp. Life form: Small shrub or herb macrodon (Wall.ex Nees) Deb Habitat: Cultivated for its fruits Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Murshidabad, 24 Distribution:Darjiling . Parganas,Puruliya,Bankura,Maldah,Haora,Dar jiling,Hugli,Nadia, Medinipur,Koch 1428. Lycopersicon lycopersicum (L.) Bihar,Dinajpur Karstem(1883). ,Birbhum,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Barddhaman. Common name: Tomato or Gur Begun Life form: Herb Habitat: Found as garden escape in 1434. Solanum ferox L.(1762). the moist waste lands Common name: Ram-begun Distribution: 24 Life form: Medium shrub Parganas( Amtala ),Bankura,Maldah,Murshida Habitat: Dry waste lands bad,Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar,Barddhaman, Distribution:Koch Haora,Medinipur,Hugli. Bihar,Nadia,Medinipur,South 24 Pgs.( Sagar Islands ). 1429. Nicandra physaloides (L.) Gaerth Life form: Annual herb 1435. Solanum jasminoides Paxton Life form: Shruby climber280 Distribution:Darjiling. Parganas (S)( Goramara/Sagar Islands ).1436. Solanum indicun L.(1753). 1442. Solanum torvum Swartz(1788). Common name: Byakur Common name: Gota-begun Life form: Herb Life form: Shrub Habitat: roadsides & on the railway tracks Habitat: Dry waste lands, hedges, Distribution:Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Bankura,Murs thickets. hidabad, 24 Parganas(Madarhat, Distribution:Koch Hasnabad ),Barddhaman. Bihar,Medinipur,Kolkata,South 24 Pgs. ( Baruipur, Canning ), 1437. Solanum mauritianum Scopoli Murshidabad,Birbhum,Barddhaman,Hugli,Nadia Life form: Shrub . Distribution:Darjiling. 1443. Solanum trilobatum L.(1753). 1438. Solanum melongena L.(1753). Life form: Herb Common name: Begun Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Garia, Sunderban Life form: Undershrub areas ). Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Haora,Darjiling,Malda 1444. Solanum tuberosum L.(1753). h,Barddhaman,Koch Common name: Alu Bihar,Puruliya,Hugli,Nadia, Life form: Herb with underground Kolkata ,Dinajpur,Murshidabad,Birbhum, 24 stem Parganas (N) Habitat: Cultivated (Champadalia/Barasat ),Medinipur,Bankura. Distribution: Dinajpur,South 24 Pgs. (Naraharipur/Sagar Islands ),Koch 1439. Solanum nigrum L.(1753). Bihar,Hugli,Jalpaiguri, Common name: Gurki begun or Gurkamari Medinipur,Bankura,Maldah. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Moist wast lands or cult. 1445. Solanum verbascifolium L.(1753). Fields Common name: Arasa Distribution:Darjiling,Nadia,Murshidabad,Hugli Life form: Shrub ,Haora,Bankura,Maldah.Koch Bihar,Birbhum, Habitat: Waste lands Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Puruliya,Medi Distribution:Medinipur,Hugli,Nadia,Murshida nipur,South 24 Pgs.( Canning ),Dinajpur. bad,South 24 Pgs.( Budge Budge, Birati ),Bankura.1440. Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam.(1811). 1446. Streptosolen jamesonii Miers Life form: Undershrub Life form: Shrub Habitat: Waste places & along the Distribution:Darjiling. roadsides hedges Distribution:Barddhaman, Murshidabad, 24 1447. Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal (1852). Parganas ( Dakshin Common name: Aswagandha Chatra),Nadia,Jalpaiguri,KochBihar . Life form: Undershrub Distribution:Birbhum,Kolkata 1441. Solanum surattense Burm. f.(1768). ,Dinajpur,Barddhaman,Haora, 24 Common name: Kantakari Parganas( Kestopur/near Life form: Herb Baguihati),Puruliya,Murshidabad,Koch Habitat: Waste lands, crop fields Bihar,Hugli,Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Medinipur. Distribution:Haora ,Dinajpur,Birbhum,24 281 1448. Atropa belladona L. Habitat: Marshy lands Distribution: Jalpaiguri, Koch Bihar. Distribution:Hugli,South 24 Pgs.( Canning, Bamanpukur ),Medinipur,Koch 1449. Brunfelsia americana L. Bihar,Nadia,Jalpaiguri, Haora Distribution: ,Murshidabad,Maldah. Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Hugli,Murshidabad,Da rjiling,Dinajpur,Birbhum,Bankura, 1459. Calceolaria gracilis Kunth Medinipur,Kolkata. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1450. Petunia nyctaginiflora Juss. Distribution:Hugli,Maldah,Medinipur,Jalpaig 1460. Centrathera nepalensis D. Don uri. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1451. Petunia violacea Lindl. Distribution:Maldah,Birbhum,Murshidabad,K 1461. Centranthera tranquebarica (Spreng.) Merr. olkata. Life form: Herb Habitat: Vill. Thickets 1452. Solanum argenteum Dun Distribution:Koch Bihar,Nadia, 24 Parganas Distribution:Koch (N)(Ichhapur ). Bihar,Barddhaman,Puruliya. 1462. Digitalis purpurea L. 1453. Solanum macranthum Dun Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Medinipur,Maldah,Hugli. Distribution:Darjiling.1454. Solanum melongena L. var. esculenta Roxb. 1463. Dopatrium junceum (Roxb.) Buch.-Ham. Distribution:Jalpaiguri. Life form: Herb Habitat: Paddy fields 1455. Solanum anguivi Lam. Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Bakkhali ) Distribution:Darjiling,Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Hugl ,Haora,Medinipur. i. 1464. Hemiphragma heterophyllum Wall. 1456. Capsicum annum L. var. abbreviata Fingerh. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Medinipur,Haora ,Hugli,Murshid Distribution:Darjiling. abad. 1465. Limnophila heterophylla (Roxb.) Benth. Family: Scrophulariaceae (1836). Life form: Aquatic herb Habitat: Swampy areas, paddy fields 1457. Antirrhinum majus L.(1753). Distribution:Medinipur Life form: Herb ,Jalpaiguri,Haora,Hugli,Koch Habitat: Cultivated as an ornamental Bihar,Barddhaman, 24 Parganas(Sasan ). Distribution:Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar,Maldah,Hugli,Darjiling,Kolkata, 24 Parganas 1466. Limnophila indica (L.) Druce(1914). (Baruipur ). Common name: Karpur Life form: Partially submerged. Habitat: Awampy areas 1458. Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettstein(1891). Distribution:Kolkata, Dinajpur,Maldah, 24 Common name: Brahmi Sak Parganas (S)(Lower Ganga Life form: Herb Delta ),Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar.282 1475. Lindernia ciliata (Colsm.) Pennell(1936). 1467. Limnophila pulcherrima (Griff.) Hook. f. Life form: Herb (1884). Habitat: Moist areas Life form: Sub-aquatic herb Distribution:Darjiling,Barddhaman, 24 Habitat: Moist waste lands Parganas (Chouhati/way to Distribution:Nadia,Murshidabad,South 24 Minakhan ),Medinipur,Jalpaiguri, Pgs.( Mahishmari/Sunderbans ),Koch Bihar. Maldah.1468. Limnophila reptans Benth.(1846). 1476. Lindernia cordifolia (Colsm.) Merr.(1923). Life form: Annual herb Life form: Herb Habitat: Moist condition Habitat: Semi-aquatic Distribution:Maldah,Hugli,Birbhum,Barddha Distribution:Darjiling man, 24 Parganas (N)( Durganagar/near Dum ,Dinajpur,Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas ( Dum Cant. ). Madhyampur ), Medinipur,Bankura,Puruliya,Nadia. 1469. Linaria cymbalaria (L.) Mill. Life form: Perennial herb 1477. Lindernia crustacea (L.) Muell.(1882). Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual Habitat: Semi-aquatic Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Madarhat, Gosaba 1470. Linaria odora Firch. ),Hugli,Birbhum,Haora,Puruliya,Bankura, Life form: Annual herb Murshidabad. Distribution:Darjiling .1478. Lindernia hirsuta (Benth.) Wettst.(1891). 1471. Lindenbergia grandiflora (Buch.-Ham.) Benth. Life form: Succulent herb Life form: Suffrutescent herb Habitat: Waste lands Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar,South 24 Pgs.(Lower Ganga Delta ), 1472. Lindenbergia indica (L.) Vatke Dinajpur. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1479. Lindernia multiflora (D.Don) Wettst.(1819). Life form: Herb 1473. Lindenbergia indica (L.) Vatke(1875). Habitat: Moist Waste lands Common name: Haldi-Basanta Distribution:Dinajpur, Bankura, 24 Life form: Annual herb Parganas( Taki ),Murshidabad,Birbhum,Hugli, Habitat: Moist waste lands Jalpaiguri, Distribution:South 24 Pgs.(Lower Ganga Medinipur. Delta ),Kolkata,Murshidabad ,Puruliya,Banku ra,Nadia, 1480. Lindernia numularifolia (D.Don) Wettst. Maldah,Hugli,Haora,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Bar (1819). ddhaman,Koch Life form: Herb Bihar,Darjiling,Birbhum,Dinajpur. Habitat: Dampy & shady places Distribution:Koch Bihar,Murshidabad,Haora, 1474. Lindernia anagallis (Burm.f.) Pennell(1943). 24 Parganas ( Bamanghata ),Kolkata,Bankura. Life form: Herb Habitat: Marshy situation 1481. Lindernia parviflora (Roxb.) Haines(1922). Distribution:Bankura, 24 Parganas Life form: Herb ( Basirhat ),Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad,B Habitat: Moist places arddhaman. Distribution:Darjiling , 24 Parganas( Chandpara ),Hugli,Dinajpur 283 ,Maldah,Jalpaiguri. common as hedge plant Distribution:Hugli,Birbhum,Koch 1482. Lindernia pyxidaria All.(1766). Bihar,Nadia,Darjiling,,Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri Life form: Annual ,Dinajpur, Haora, Habitat: Moist & shady places Kolkata,Puruliya,Bankura,Medinipur, 24 Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Parganas ( Dhopagachhi, (Narendrapur ),Medinipur. Duttapukur ),Barddhaman Maldah.1483. Lindernia verbenaefolia (Colsm.) 1490. Scorphularia elatior Benth. Pennell(1943). Life form: Annual herb Life form: Annual Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Rarely on moist places Distribution:Barddhaman,South 24 Pgs. 1491. Scorphularia urticaefolia Wall. ex Benth. ( Satzelia/Sunderbans ),Koch Bihar, Life form: Annual herb Medinipur, Murshidabad, Birbhum,Kolkata. Distribution:Darjiling.1484. Mazus pumilus (Burm. f.) Steenis(1958). 1492. Torenia asiatica L. Life form: Annual Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Moist & shady places, on Distribution:Darjiling. the bank of river Distribution:Darjiling,Murshidabad,Hugli,Mal 1493. Torenia violacea (Azeola ex Blanco) Pennell dah,Haora,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Medinipur,Kolkat Life form: Perennial herb a, Distribution:Darjiling . South 24 Pgs.( Lower Ganga Delta ),Koch Bihar. 1494. Vandellia pusilla (Willd.) Yamazaki Life form: Perennial herb 1485. Mazus surculosus D. Don Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1495. Veronica juvanica Blume Life form: Annual herb 1486. Mimulus nepalensis Benth. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1496. Veronica persica Poir. Life form: Annual herb 1487. Pedicularis mollis Wall. Distribution:Darjiling Life form: Annual herb . Distribution:Darjiling . 1497. Veronica serpyllifolia L. Life form: Perennial herb 1488. Russelia equisetiformis Schlecht. & Cham. Distribution:Darjiling. (1831). Life form: Shrub Family: Orobanchaceae Habitat: Cultivated Distribution: 24 Parganas 1498. Orobanche indica Buch.-Ham.(1832). ,Murshidabad,Barddhaman,Hugli, Common name: Bena Bau Dinajpur,Medinipur,Birbhum. Life form: Root parasite Habitat: On mustard & brinjal fields 1489. Scoparia dulcis L.(1753). Distribution:Maldah, 24 Parganas (S) Life form: Herb ( Narendrapur),Medinipur,Koch Habitat: Weed in the waste lands, Bihar,Haora,Barddhaman, 284 Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Nadia. 1506. Begonia hatacoa Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Family: Lentibulariaceae Life form: Geophyte Distribution:Darjiling . 1499. Urticularia aurea Lour.(1790). Common name: Jhangi 1507. Begonia josephi A. DC. Life form: Rootless aquatic herb Life form: Geophyte Habitat: Sumerged, free-floating Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution:Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Murshidaba d,Barddhaman,Haora, Dinajpur,Koch Bihar, 1508. Begonia inflata C.B.Clarke Maldah,Nadia, 24 Life form: Herb Parganas(Satzelia ),Kolkata,Hugli. Distribution: Darjiling1500. Urticularia gibbosa L. ssp. exoleta P. Taylor 1509. Begonia megaptera DC. (1961). Life form: Herb Common name: Chhota Jhangi Distribution: Darjiling Life form: Rootless aquatic herb Habitat: Sumerged, free-floating 1510. Begonia nepalensis (A.DC.)Warburg Distribution:Barddhaman,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Birb Life form: Herb hum,Dinajpur,South 24 Pgs. Lower Ganga Delta), Distribution: Darjiling Medinipur,Bankura. 1511. Begonia ovatifolia DC 1501. Urticularia inflexa Forssk. var. stellaris (L. f. ) Life form: Herb Taylor(1961). Distribution: Darjiling Life form: Rootless aquatic herb Habitat: Shallow ponds, marshy 1512. Begonia palmata D. Don places & paddy fields Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Koch Bihar,Dinajpur,South 24 Distribution:Darjiling. Pgs.( Goranbose/Sunderbans ),Haora,Maldah. 1513. Begonia picta J. E. Sm. Family: Bignoniaceae Life form: Geophyte Distribution:Darjiling. 1502. Begonia cathcartii Hook.f. & Thoms. Life form: Geophyte 1514. Bigonia roxburghii DC. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling 1503. Begonia dioica Buch.-Ham.ex D. Don Life form: Geophyte 1515. Begonia satrapis C.B. Clarke Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Herb Distribution: Darjiling 1504. Begonia flaviflora Hara Life form: Perennial herb 1516. Begonia sikkimensis A. DC Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling 1505. Begonia gemmipara Hook. f. . Life form: Epiphytic herb 1517. Begonia subpleltata Wight Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Geophyte Distribution:Darjiling.285 South 24 Pgs.(Bireshwarpur/near 1518. Bignonia unguiscati L.(1753). Lakshmikantapur ),Nadia. Life form: Climbing shrub Habitat: Garden plant 1525. Tecoma stans (L.) Juss.(1789). Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Dinajpur,Hugli, Life form: Small tree Bankura,Medinipur,South 24 Pgs.( Garia ). Habitat: Cultivated Distribution: Dinajpur,South 24 Pgs.(Diamond 1519. Begonia xanthi Hook. Harbour ), Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Medinipur, Life form: Herb Koch Distribution: Darjiling Bihar,Birbhum,Barddhaman,Hugli,Murshidab ad. 1520. Dolichandrone spathaceae (L. f.) K. Schum. (1889). Family: Pedaliaceae Common name: Gorshingiah Life form: Medium to large tree 1526. Sesamum indicum L.(1753). Habitat: Grown in the mangrove Common name: Til cleared areas Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Murshidabad,Haora,Birbhum,Bar Habitat: Cultivated crop ddhaman,Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas Distribution:Medinipur,Kolkata,Bankura, 24 (Sunderbans(Rudra Nagar/Sagar Islands). Parganas (N)(Barasat ),Hugli,Dinajpur, Murshidabad,Darjiling,Barddhaman,Maldah,H 1521. Haplophragma adenophyllum (Wall.) P. Dop. aora,Jalpaiguri,Birbhum,Koch Bihar. (1925). Life form: Medium to large tree Family: Acanthaceae Habitat: Garden plant Distribution:Haora,Maldah,Koch 1527. Acanthus carduaceus Griff. Bihar,Medinipur, 24 Parganas . Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1522. Jacaranda mimosaefolia D. Don(1822). Life form: Small to medium-sized tree 1528. Acanthus ilicifolius L.(1753). Habitat: Gardens/Parks Common name: Harkoch Kanta Distribution:Murshidabad,Koch Life form: Viny shrub/herb Bihar,Maldah,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri, 24 Habitat: Mangrove forests Parganas (N)(Barasat ),Hugli. Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Surjyapur, Santoshpur ). 1523. Millingtonia hortensis L. f.(1781). Common name: Akas-nim 1529. Asystasia macrocarpa Nees Life form: Large tree Life form: Undershrub Habitat: As an avenue tree, planted Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas ,Maldah,Haora,Dinajpur. 1530. Adhatoda zeylanica Medikus (1790). Common name: Basak 1524. Oroxylum indicum (L.) Vent.(1808). Life form: Shrub Common name: Sona or Sonpatti Habitat: Gregariously grow on Life form: Tree garden edges, roadsides, railway tracks Habitat: Rarely planted as avenue Distribution:Murshidabad,Kolkata,Medinipur, tree Maldah,Hugli,Birbhum, 24 Parganas Distribution:Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Ko ( Harinbari/Sagar ch Bihar,Barddhaman,Murshidabad ,Dinajpur, Islands ),Bankura,Darjiling,Koch Bihar 286 ,Dinajpur,Haora,Puruliya,Barddhaman,Nadia,J alpaiguri. 1536. Crossandra infundibuliformis (L.) Nees (1832). 1531. Andrographis paniculata (Burm. f.) Wall. ex Life form: Undershrub Nees(1832). Habitat: Planted Common name: Kalmegh Distribution:Nadia,Murshidabad,Barddhaman, Life form: Annual herb South 24 Pgs.( Santoshpur/near Budge Habitat: Prefer shady waste lands, Budge), Jalpaiguri. vill. Gardens Distribution:Hugli,Haora,Medinipur,Koch 1537. Diflugossa divaricata (Nees) Bremek. Bihar,Birbhum,Barddhaman,Darjiling,Maldah Life form: Undershrub , Distribution:Darjiling. Murshidabad, Jalpaiguri,Puruliya,South 24 Pgs.( Gosaba, Falta ), Bankura, Kolkata, 1538. Dipteracanthus prostratus (Poir.) Nees(1832). Dinajpur,Nadia. Life form: Undershrub Habitat: Bushy places, along the 1532. Barleria cristata L.(1753). roadsides & railway tracks Common name: Jati or Jhinti Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Life form: Undershrub ( Subuddhipur/Baruipur, Habitat: Thickets & hedges, roadside Santoshpur ),Nadia,Haora ,Medinipur,Jalp & railway tracks aiguri,, Distribution:Murshidabad,Barddhaman,Jalpai Barddhaman, Koch Bihar. guri,Koch Bihar,Nadia,Bankura,South 24 Pgs. ( Madarhat/Baruipur ),Puruliya,Medinipur,Kol 1539. Ecbolium viride (Forssk.) Alston. var. dentata kata. (Klein ex Link) Common name: Udu-Jati 1533. Barleria prionitis L.(1753). Life form: Herb Common name: Kanta-Jati Habitat: Waste places, vill. Thickets Life form: Bushy undershrub & hedges Habitat: Scrub jungles, roadside Distribution:Maldah,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Ha hedges or railway tracks ora,Hugli, 24 Parganas (Amtala, Masjidbati ) Distribution:Murshidabad,Barddhaman,Malda Dinajpur, Murshidabad, Nadia,Koch Bihar. h,Kolkata,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Dinajpur, Birbhum,South 24 Pgs. 1540. Goldfussia capitata Nees ( Sitakundu/Baruipur ),Medinipur. Life form: Undershrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1534. Cardanthera difformis (L.) Druce(1917). Common name: Kala 1541. Hemigraphis hirta (Vahl) T. Anders. (1867). Life form: Annual viscid herb Life form: Herb Habitat: Semi-aquatic area, on the Habitat: Moist places embankment of the ponds, canals & ditches Distribution:Koch Distribution:Murshidabad,Koch Bihar,South Bihar,Murshidabad,Haora,Birbhum,Barddham 24 Pgs. an,Jalpaiguri,Bankura,Medinipur, (Baruipur ),Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri,Kolkata, South 24 Pgs.( Budge Budge ),Nadia,Hugli Haora,Medinipur,Nadia. . 1535. Codonacanthus pauciflorus Nees 1542. Hygrophila auriculata (Schultes) Heine(1962). Life form: Undershrub Common name: Kanta Kalika or Kuliakhara Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Undershrub287 Habitat: Wet swapy areas Distribution:Hugli,Medinipur,Bankura,Kolkat 1549. Justicia procumbens L. a,South 24 Pgs.( Baruipur, Life form: Perennial herb Kumarzol ),Barddhaman, Distribution:Darjiling. Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad,Darjiling,Birbh 1550. Lepidogathis incurva D. Don um,Nadia,Maldah,Haora, Dinajpur. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling . 1543. Hygrophila phlomoides Nees (1832). Life form: Herb 1551. Nelsonia canescens (Lam.) Spreng.(1825). Habitat: Roadside marshy lands Common name: Paramul Distribution:Maldah, 24 Parganas Life form: Herb ( Bhangankhali ),Jalpaiguri. Habitat: Moist waste lands Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Lower Ganga 1544. Hygrophila polysperma (Roxb.) T. And. Delta ). (1867). Life form: Small herb 1552. Peristrophe bicalyculata (Retz.) Nees(1832). Habitat: Common on moist places Common name: Nasa-Bhanga Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Life form: Herb or undershrub ( Bhangankhali/opposite to Habitat: Waste lands Canning ),Nadia,Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri. Distribution: 24 Parganas,Dinajpur,Murshidabad,Maldah,Darji 1545. Hypoestis triflora Roem. & Schultes ling. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1553. Phaulopsis dorsiflora (Retz.) Santapau (1948). Life form: Herb 1546. Justicia betonica L.(1753). Habitat: Rarely grow on the waste Life form: Undershrub lands & vill. Shrubberies, prefer grassy lands Habitat: Hedges & vill. Thickets Distribution:Koch Bihar,Haora,Hugli, 24 Distribution:Medinipur,Hugli,Kolkata,South Parganas (N) ( Birati ). 24 Pgs.( Garia ),Birbhum. 1554. Rhinacanthus nasutus (L.) Kurz (1870). 1547. Justicia diffusa Willd.(1797). Common name: Palak-jui Life form: Herb Life form: Undershrub Habitat: Common weed on the Habitat: Rarely on the vill. Thickets paddy-fields & damp/moist places or waste lands Distribution: 24 Parganas( Fort William, Distribution: 24 Kolkata ),Nadia, Parganas( Satzelia ),Maldah,Koch Dinajpur,Medinipur,Darjiling,Maldah,Koch Bihar,Dinajpur. Bihar, Jalpaiguri,Haora. 1555. Ruella tuberosa L.(1753). 1548. Justicia gendarussa Burm. f.(1768). Life form: Undershrub Common name: Gandho-rusa or Jagatmadan Habitat: Damp & shady places Life form: Shrub Distribution:Bankura,Murshidabad,Birbhum, Habitat: Hedges & thickets Kolkata,Medinipur,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri, Distribution:Puruliya,Maldah,Medinipur, 24 24 Parganas Parganas(Falta),Haora,Hugli,Maldah,Dinajpur ( Madhyamgram ),Hugli,Kolkata,Birbhum, ,Koch Bihar,Nadia. Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar,Murshidabad.288 1556. Rungia pectinata (L.) Nees(1847). Life form: Annual herb 1564. Thunbergia fragrans Roxb. Habitat: Grassy & moist localities Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Koch Bihar,South 24 Pgs. Distribution:Darjiling. ( Saktinagar/Maslandapur ),Maldah,Barddham an,Medinipur, 1565. Thunbergia lutea T. Anders. Jalpaiguri,Hugli. Life form: Climber Distribution:Darjiling. 1557. Rungia repens (L.) Nees(1832). Common name: Parpatha Family: Verbenaceae Life form: Herb Habitat: Widely distributed Distribution:Murshidabad,Dinajpur,Barddham 1566. Callicarpa arborea Roxb. ex C. B. Clarke an,Darjiling,Birbhum, 24 Parganas (N) Life form: Tree ( Throughout 24-Parganas; Durganagar/near Distribution:Darjiling. Dum Dum Cant. ),Puruliya,Nadia. 1567. Callicarpa candicans (Burm. f.) Hochr.(1934). 1558. Staurogyne glutinosa (Wall. ex C.B.Clarke) O. Common name: Arusha Kuntze(1891). Life form: Shrub Life form: Herb Habitat: Rarely grow on vill. Habitat: Moist lands Thickets Distribution:Nadia,South 24 Pgs.( Lower Distribution:Kolkata,Medinipur, 24 Ganga Delta ),Jalpaiguri. Parganas( Hasnabad ),Birbhum,Murshidabad, Maldah,Haora, Jalpaiguri. 1559. Strobilanthes pectinatus T. Anders. Life form: Undershrub 1568. Callicarpa vestita Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling . 1560. Strobilanthes thomsonii T. Anders. Life form: Undershrub 1569. Caryopteris odorata (Buch-Ham. ex Roxb.) B. Distribution:Darjiling. L. Rob. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1561. Strobilanthes urophyllus (Wall.) Nees Life form: Undershrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1570. Clerodendrum colebrookianum Walp. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1562. Thunbergia grandiflora (Roxb. ex Rottl.) Roxb.(1832). 1571. Clerodendrum indicum (L.) O. Kuntze.(1891). Common name: Nil lata. Common name: Bamanati Life form: Large woody climber Life form: Shrub Habitat: Ornamental Habitat: Wastelands, roadsides & Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Medinipur, 24 railway track sides Parganas (Dakshin Barasat ),Koch Distribution:Murshidabad,Maldah,Kolkata,Jal Bihar,Barddhaman,Nadia, paiguri,Haora,Barddhaman,Koch Bihar, 24 Hugli,Haora,Kolkata. Parganas ( Piyalinagar/Baruipur ),Medinipur,Hugli. 1563. Thunbergia coccinea Wall. ex D. Don Life form: Shruby climber 1572. Clerodendrum inerme (L.) Gaertn.(1788). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Ban Jui or Batraj289 Life form: Straggling shrub Habitat: On the river banks & back- 1578. Lantana camara L. var. aculeata (L.) mangal localities, thickets; normally away Moldenke(1934). from tidal influences. Common name: Manindra Kanta Distribution:Haora,Nadia,Medinipur,South 24 Life form: Aromatic herb Pgs.( Surjyapur, Dhopa Habitat: Waste places, hedges, Gachi ),Barddhaman,Bankura, thickets, railway tracks & jungles Kolkata. Distribution:Kolkata,Bankura,Darjiling,Dinaj pur, NorthDinajpur, Haora, Barddhaman, 1573. Clerodendrum splandens G. Don (1824). Puruliya, Murshidabad, 24 Parganas -( Very Life form: Climbing shrub common everywhere, Canning/railway tracks , Habitat: Hedges as climber Jalpaiguri, Birbhum, Nadia, Koch Distribution:Koch Bihar,Medinipur, 24 Bihar,Maldah,Medinipur,Hugli. Parganas (N)( Dum Dum Cant. ),Bankura,Barddhaman, 1579. Lantana indica Roxb.(1832). Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Maldah. Life form: Woody shrub Habitat: Planted as hedge plant 1574. Clerodendrum viscosum Vent.(1803). istribution:Barddhaman,Dinajpur, Common name: Ghetu NorthDinajpur,Darjiling,Nadia,Maldah,Birbhu Life form: Robust shrub m,Jalpaiguri,Hugli, Habitat: Wasteplaces, roadsides & 24 Parganas railway tracks ( Maslandapur ),Bankura,Kolkata ,Haora,, Distribution:Maldah,Barddhaman,Haora,Birbh Medinipur,Puruliya,Koch Bihar,,Murshidabad. um,South 24 Pgs.( Gosaba, Garia ),Kolkata,Medinipur, 1580. Lippia javanica (Burm. f.) Spreng.(1825). Dinajpur. Life form: Shrub Habitat: Common on margin of 1575. Duranta repens L.(1753). ponds & canals Common name: Mudikanta Distribution: 24 Life form: Shrub Parganas( Mallickpore ),Haora,Medinipur,Koch Habitat: Planted as hedge plant Bihar Murshidabad, Barddhaman, Distribution:Hugli,Nadia, Nadia,Jalpaiguri. Dinajpur,Haora,Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Medinipur,Darjiling, 1581. Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene(1899). Kolkata,South 24 Pgs.( Budge Budge ). Common name: Bhui-Okra Life form: Annual herb 1576. Gmelina arborea Roxb.(1819). Habitat: Moist waste places Life form: Moderate tree Distribution:Maldah,Haora,Hugli,Birbhum,Jal Habitat: Rarely found in the vill. paiguri,Murshidabad,Darjiling,Koch Thickets, or planted Bihar,Nadia, Distribution:Haora,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Koch Dinajpur,Bankura,Medinipur,South 24 Pgs. Bihar,Maldah,Nadia,Medinipur, 24 ( Gosaba ),Puruliya,Barddhaman,Kolkata. Parganas ,Bankura,Kolkata,Puruliya,Barddhaman,Dinaj 1582. Premna corymbosa (Burm. f.) Rottl. & Willd. pur,Birbhum,Murshidabad. (1803). Common name: Gamiari or Bhui Biravi 1577. Homskioldia sanguinea Retz. Life form: Shrub or tree Life form: Shrub Habitat: Scrub-jungles as back Distribution:Darjiling. mangrove sp. Distribution:Medinipur,South 24 Pgs.( Sagar 290 Islands/Sunderbans ,Koch Bihar, Barddhaman, Distribution:Medinipur, 24 Parganas Murshidabad. ( Surjyapur/near Raidighi ).1583. Premna mucronata Roxb.(1832). 1588. Avicennia officinalis L.(1753). Common name: Bakar Common name: Jat-Bain Life form: Small to medium sized tree Life form: Medium tree Habitat: Rarely cultivated, mostly Habitat: True mangrove, on the wild inter-tidal mud-flats & ridge forests of Distribution:Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Haora,South Sunderbans 24 Pgs.( Canning/on the river Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Bhangan sides ),Dinajpur,Dinajpur. Khali/Opposite to Canning ).1584. Tectona grandis L. f. (1781). Family: Lamiaceae ( nom. alt. ) Common name: Segun Labiatae Life form: Large tree Habitat: Planted as avenue tree or in 1589. Achyrospermum densiflorum Bl. old orchards Life form: Suffrutescent herb Distribution:Bankura,Haora,Murshidabad, 24 Distribution:Darjiling. Parganas ,Koch Bihar,Medinipur,Kolkata, Dinajpur,Darjiling,Nadia,Birbhum,Barddhama 1590. Ajuga lobata D.Don n,Jalpaiguri,Puruliya. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1585. Vitex negundo L.(1753). Life form: Shrub or small tree 1591. Ajuga macrosperma Wall. ex Benth. var. Habitat: Hedge plant breviflora Hook. f. Distribution:Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad, Life form: Perennial herb Haora,Dinajpur, Distribution:Darjiling. NorthDinajpur,Hugli,Barddhaman,Maldah, Nadia,Birbhum, 24 Parganas 1592. Anisomeles indica (L.) O. Kuntze (1891). ( Champahati ),Puruliya,Koch Common name: Gobura Bihar,Bankura,Kolkata,Medinipur. Life form: Shrub Habitat: Dry waste lands, hedges, Family: Avicenniaceae roadsides & railway tracks Distribution:Maldah,Bankura,Nadia,Hugli,Dar 1586. Avicennia alba Blume (1820). jiling,Medinipur,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri,Murs Common name: Kal-Bain hidabad, Life form: Tree Dinajpur,Haora,Puruliya,South 24 Pgs. Habitat: On the tidal river banks, & ( Baruipur, Garifa ),Kolkata,Birbhum, Koch inter-tidal mangrove forest or sea-shores Bihar. Distribution:Medinipur,South 24 Pgs. ( Supari Bhanga/Sagar Islands ). 1593. Cinopodium piperitum (D. Don) Press Life form: Perennial herb 1587. Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh.(1907). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Peyara Bain Life form: Shrub to small tree (tru e 1594. Cinopodium umbrosum (M. Bieb) C. Koch mangrove sp.) Life form: Perennial herb Habitat: Common in the inter-tidal Distribution:Darjiling. forests of the coastal reas & ridge forests of Sunderbans 1595. Coleus amboinicus Lour.(1790). 291 Common name: Pathor-chur thickets Life form: Medium herb Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Habitat: Cultivated ( Purandarpur ),Haora,Koch Bihar , Distribution: 24 Darjiling, Jalpaiguri, Hugli, Dinajpur. Parganas,Barddhaman,Nadia,Murshidabad,Hu gli,Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar. 1604. Leonurus sibiricus L.(1753). Common name: Rakta-drone 1596. Craneotome furcata (Link) O. Kuntze Life form: Annual herb Life form: Suffrutescent herb Habitat: Roadsides, railway tracks, Distribution:Darjiling . hedges & waste places Distribution:Maldah, 24 Parganas 1597. Dysophylla verticillata Benth.(1830). ( Magrahat ),Medinipur,Kolkata,Koch Common name: Pani-kula Bihar,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri, Life form: Herb Hugli,Murshidabad. Habitat: On the paddy fields Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Bhojerhat/near 1605. Leucas aspera (Willd.) Spreng.(1823). Salt Common name: Chhota-halkusa Lake ),Nadia,Kolkata,Barddhaman,Medinipur. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Common weed on waste 1598. Elsholtzia blanda (Benth.) Benth. places & cult. Fields, roadsides, railway tracks Life form: Suffrutescent herb Distribution:Koch Distribution:Darjiling. Bihar,Darjiling,Puruliya,Medinipur,Kolkata,M urshidabad,Birbhum, 24 Parganas ( Bagha Jatin ) 1599. Elsholtzia flava Benth. ,Dinajpur,Bankura,Maldah,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,B Life form: Suffrutescent herb arddhaman,Haora,Hugli. Distribution:Darjiling.1606. Leucas biflora (Vahl) R. Br. (1810). 1600. Elsholtzia fruticosa (D. Don) Rehd. Life form: Herb Life form: Shrub Habitat: Rarely seen in the moist Distribution:Darjiling. waste places, near the paddy fields & roadside thickets 1601. Elsholtzia strobilifera (Benth.) Benth. Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad,Koch Life form: Annual herb Bihar,Haora, 24 Parganas Distribution:Darjiling. ( Bamanghata ),Nadia.1602. Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poir. (1806). 1607. Leucas cephalotes (Roxb.) Spreng.(1825). Common name: Ganga-Tulsi or Bilati-Tulsi Common name: Bara-halkusa Life form: Fragrant herb Life form: Annual, stout herb Habitat: Moist waste lands, on the Habitat: Hasnabad roadsides & railway tracks Distribution:Medinipur,Haora ,Nadia,Jalpaigu Distribution:Bankura,Nadia,Birbhum, 24 ri,Koch Bihar,Puruliya,Bankura. Parganas (N) ( Dum Dum Cant ), Maldah,Medinipur,Puruliya,, 1608. Leucas indica (L.) R. Br. Dinajpur,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1603. Leonotis nepetaefolia (L.) R. Brown(1810). Common name: Hejurchi 1609. Leucas lavandulaefolia Sm.(1819). Life form: Annual herb Common name: Halkussa Habitat: Waste places, roadsides & 292 Life form: Annual herb Life form: Aromatic herb Habitat: Common on paddy fields, Habitat: Cultivated lands, waste roadside thickets & hedges places Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Dhapdhapi/Public ( Baruipur ),Hugli,Barddhaman,Murshidabad,J House ),Nadia,Birbhum,Dinajpur,,Koch Bihar alpaiguri,Birbhum,Maldah. 1618. Ocimum gratissimum L.(1753). 1610. Leucas mollissima Wall. Common name: Ram-Tulsi Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Rarely in the waste places along the roadsides, hedges & railway tracks Distribution:South 24 Pgs. 1611. Leucas nutans Spreng.(1825). ( Ghoramara/adjacent to Sagar Life form: Perennial herb Islands ),Barddhaman,Haora,Maldah, Habitat: Waste lands Dinajpur, Koch Bihar,Medinipur. Distribution:Birbhum,Haora,South 24 Pgs. ( Kamdohri/Garia ),Puruliya. 1619. Ocimum sanctum L.(1767). Common name: Tulsi 1612. Leucoceptrum canum Sm. Life form: Woody undershrub Life form: Tree Habitat: Very common to every Distribution:Darjiling. Hindu’s house, also escape in the waste lands Distribution:Maldah,South 24 Pgs. 1613. Melissa axillaris (Benth.) Bakh. f. ( Atghora/Baruipur ),Bankura, Birbhum, Life form: Perennial herb Darjiling, Haora, Dinajpur, Distribution:Darjiling . Nadia,Kolkata,Barddhaman,Hugli,Jalpaiguri, Koch Bihar,Medinipur,Puruliya,Murshidabad. 1614. Mentha spicata L.(1753). Common name: Pudina 1620. Orthosiphon rubicundus Benth.(1831). Life form: Aromatic perennial herb Life form: Undershrub Habitat: Rarely cultivated in the Habitat: Rarely on the vill. Thickets gardens Distribution:Maldah, 24 Parganas (N) Distribution:Dinajpur ,Jalpaiguri,Koch ( Gobardanga ),Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad Bihar,Murshidabad, 24 Parganas . ( Rahara/Danga Para ), Bankura,Medinipur,Maldah. 1621. Perilla frutescens (L.) Britton Life form: Annual herb 1615. Notochete hamosa Benth. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Suffrutescent herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1622. Pogostemon amaranthoides Benth. Life form: Shrub 1616. Ocimum americanum L.(1753). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Bharbari Life form: Herb 1623. Pogostemon benghalense (Burm.f.) O. Habitat: Waste lands Kuntz(1891). Distribution:Nadia,Puruliya,South 24 Pgs. Common name: Jui-Lata ( Falta Fort ),Koch Life form: Large aromatic herb Bihar,Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Haora, Barddhaman. Habitat: Shady places & waste lands Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) 1617. Ocimum basilicum L.(1753). ( Barrackpore ),Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Haora,Medi Common name: Babui-Tulsi nipur.293 1624. Prunella vulgaris L. 1634. Scuttelaria discolor Colebr. Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1625. Rabdosia coetsa (Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don) Hara 1635. Scuttelaria violacea Heyne ex Benth. var. Life form: Annual herb sikkimensis Hook.f. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1626. Rabdosia lophanthoides (Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don) Hara var. lophanthoides Family: Plantaginaceae Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1636. Plantago erosa Wall. Life form: Perennial herb 1627. Rabdosia lophanthoides (Buch.-Ham. ex D. Distribution:Darjiling. Don) Hara var.gerardiana Life form: Annual herb 1637. Plantago ovata Forssk.(1776). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Ispghul Life form: Herb 1628. Rabdosia lophanthoides (Buch.-Ham. ex D. Habitat: Very rarely planted for its Don) Hara var. gracilifolia medicinal value Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling, 24 Parganas Distribution:Darjiling. ( Nurpur/Public garden),Medinipur,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Barddham 1629. Rabdosia maddeni (Benth. ex Hook. f.) Hara an, Murshidabad ,Dinajpur,Birbhum,Bankura. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1638. Boerhavia diffusa L.(1753). Common name: Punarnava 1630. Rabdosia rugosa (Wall. ex Benth.) Hara Life form: Herb Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Very common on the waste Distribution:Darjiling. places, railway tracks, roadsides & on the old walls Distribution:Haora,Barddhaman,Maldah 1631. Salvia coccinea L. ,Dinajpur,Hugli,Darjiling,Nadia,Koch Bihar, Life form: Annual herb Birbhum, Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas ( Nurpur/on Distribution:Darjiling. the roadside),Puruliya,Bankura,Medinipur,Kolkat 1632. Salvia leucantha Cav. a, Murshidabad. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1639. Bougainvillea glabra Choisy(1849). Life form: Straggling herb 1633. Salvia plebeja R. Br.(1810). Habitat: Cultivated Common name: Bhui-Tulsi Distribution:Medinipur,Puruliya,Barddhaman, Life form: Annual herb 24 Habitat: Moist & shady areas, near Parganas,Kolkata,Bankura,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,H the canals, dry ditches & jhils aora, Distribution:Bankura, 24 Parganas ( Malatipur Nadia,Maldah,Koch Bihar, ), Medinipur, Puruliya, Jalpaiguri, Birbhum, Dinajpur,Murshidabad,Birbhum,Darjiling. Maldah, Dinajpur,Barddhaman,Haora.294 1640. Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd.(1799). ( Madarhat, Life form: Woody climbing shrub Baruipur ),Murshidabad,Haora,Maldah. Habitat: Planted Distribution:Murshidabad,Bankura,Medinipur, 1646. Allmania nodiflora R. Br. (1813). 24 Parganas Life form: Annual herb ,Puruliya,Kolkata,Haora,Nadia,Maldah, Habitat: Common on canal sides Barddhaman, Distribution:Maldah, 24 Dinajpur,Hugli,Darjiling,Birbhum,Koch Parganas( Jadavpur ),Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri. Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad,Dinajpur,Dinajp ur. 1641. Mirabilis jalapa L.(1753). Common name: Krishna-Kali 1647. Alternanthera paranychioides St. (1833). Life form: Undershrub Life form: Herb Habitat: Commonly cultivated Habitat: Prefer moist places but also Distribution:Hugli,Murshidabad,Medinipur, can grow in the xerophytic conditions 24 Distribution:Puruliya,South 24 Pgs. Parganas(Taki),Kolkata,Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Ko (Subuddhipur/Baruipur),Haora,Nadia,Koch ch Bihar, Bihar,Kolkata, Barddhaman,Nadia. Medinipur,Hugli.Family: Amaranthaceae 1648. Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb. (1879). 1642. Achyranthes aspera L.(1753). Life form: Herb Common name: Apang Habitat: Moist, waste lands Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Nadia,South 24 Pgs. Habitat: Very common on the waste ( Sitakundu/Baruipur ),Koch lands, hedges etc. Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad,Haora. Distribution:Dinajpur,Dinajpur,Maldah, 24 Parganas (N)( Dum Dum Cant), Kolkata, 1649. Alternanthera pungens Kunth(1818). Medinipur, Bankura, Life form: Herb Barddhaman,Nadia,Darjiling,Koch Habitat: Roadsides Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Haora,Birbhum, Hugli, Distribution:Puruliya,Medinipur, 24 Parganas( Puruliya, Murshidabad. Nurpur ) ,Nadia,Koch Bihar.1643. Achyranthes bidentata Blume 1650. Alternanthera sessilis (L.) R. Br. (1810). Life form: Annual herb Life form: Herb Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Common weed in the cult. Fields & other moist places 1644. Aerva lanata (L.) Juss.(1803). Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Kolkata,South 24 Common name: Chhaya Pgs.(Canning, Life form: Herb Gobardanga ),Barddhaman,Medinipur, Habitat: Mollakhali Puruliya,Bankura,Nadia,Birbhum,Darjiling, Distribution:Kolkata,Bankura,Maldah,Puruliy Dinajpur,Haora,Maldah,Murshidabad,Koch a,Hugli,Medinipur,Birbhum, NortDinajpur, Bihar. Haora, Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri. 1651. Amaranthus caudatus L.(1753). 1645. Aerva sanguinolenta (L.) Blume (1826). Life form: Robust herb Life form: Herb Habitat: Rarely planted or as an Habitat: Common on waste places escape Distribution:Koch Bihar,South 24 Pgs.295 Distribution:Murshidabad,South 24 Pgs. Common name: Marag Jata ( Gosaba ),Nadia,Koch Bihar. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Cult. Garden or in waste 1652. Amaranthus spinosus L.(1753). lands Common name: Kanta Note Distribution:Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Barddha Life form: Herb man,South 24 Pgs.( Santoshpur/near Budge Habitat: Very common in waste Budge ), Medinipur,Maldah. lands, hedges, thickets etc. Distribution:Darjiling,Maldah,Haora,Birbhum 1658. Cyathula capitata Moy. ,Barddhaman,Murshidabad,Hugli,Nadia, 24 Life form: Perennial herb Parganas ( Sarberia ),Koch Distribution:Darjiling. Bihar,Bankura,Medinipur,Kolkata,Puruliya, Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri. 1659. Digera muricata (L.) Mart.(1825). Common name: Luta-mhauria 1653. Amaranthus tenuifolius Willd.(1805). Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Cult. Lands & moist waste Habitat: Rarely found in moist waste places lands Distribution:Hugli,Medinipur Distribution: 24 Parganas( Durgapur ),Koch ,Dinajpur,Maldah,Koch Bihar,Jalpaiguri, Bihar,Haora,Barddhaman. Barddhaman,Nadia, Kolkata, 24 Parganas ( Gocharan ). 1654. Amaranthus tricolor L.(1753). Life form: Annual herb 1660. Gomphrena celosioides Mart.(1825). Habitat: Moist & waste places Life form: Herb Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Sagar Habitat: Waste ground along the Islands ),Jalpaiguri. sides of roads /railway tracts Distribution: 24 Parganas 1655. Amaranthus viridis L. ( ex parte ) (1763). ( Bantala ),Puruliya,Medinipur,Bankura,Nadia Common name: Bam-nate ,Birbhum,Darjiling,Jalpaiguri, Hugli Life form: Annual herb ,Dinajpur. Habitat: Moist & waste lands, along the water canals & cultivated fields 1661. Gomphrena globosa L.(1753). Distribution:Koch Bihar, Haora, Common name: Gomphorna Hugli,Darjiling, Birbhum ,Maldah,Jalpaiguri, Life form: Annual herb Murshidabad, Dinajpur, Habitat: Planted in the gardens Barddhaman,Puruliya, 24 Distribution:Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas Parganas( Maslandapur, ( Belekhali/Salt Madhyamgram ),Medinipur,Kolkata,Bankura, Lake ),Bankura,Birbhum,Nadia. Nadia. Family: Chenopodiaceae 1656. Celosia argentea L. (1753). Common name: Swet-Murga or Morag-Phul 1662. Arthrocnemum indicum (Willd.) Miq.(1840). Life form: Annual herb Common name: Jadu Palang Habitat: Weed in the moist waste Life form: Annual herb lands Habitat: Common on the river sides Distribution:Haora,Koch Bihar, 24 Distribution: 24 Parganas Parganas ,Puruliya,Darjiling,Medinipur,Nadia. ( Suparibhanga/Sagar Islands ),Koch Bihar,Nadia. 1657. Celosia cristata L.(1753). 296 1663. Beta vulgaris L.(1753). Common name: Beet 1669. Suaeda maritima Dumort.(1827). Life form: Tuberous herb Common name: Gire sak Habitat: Cultivated Life form: Herb Distribution: 24 Parganas( Sunderbans, Habitat: Common on river flats Garia),Bankura,Maldah,Barddhaman,Koch Distribution: 24 Bihar,Jalpaiguri, Murshidabad. Parganas( Hingalgunj ),Medinipur.1664. Chenopodium album L.(1753). 1670. Suaeda nudiflora Moq.(1831). Common name: Bethua-sak Life form: Woody undershrub Life form: Herb Habitat: Common on the inter-tidal Habitat: On river banks, canal sides, river slopes as weed on cult. Grounds Distribution:Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas Distribution:Hugli,Medinipur,Kolkata,Bankur ( Bhangankhali ). a,South 24 Pgs.( Diamond Harbour ),Puruliya ,Nadia, Family: Basellaceae Barddhaman,Darjiling,Haora,Murshidabad,Jal paiguri,Birbhum,Maldah,Koch Bihar,Dinajpur,Dinajpur. 1671. Basella alba L.(1753). Common name: Pui-Sak Life form: Succulent twiner 1665. Chenopodium ambrosioides L.(1753). Habitat: Commonly cultivated Life form: Shrub Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Kolkata,Medinipur,So Habitat: Moist waste lands, uth 24 Pgs. roadsides & canal sides (Piyalinagar/Baruipur ),Murshidabad,Haora, Distribution:Hugli, 24 Maldah,Koch Bihar,Hugli. Parganas(Sarberia,Baruipur,Malancha,Budge Budge, Madhyampur, Sankchura), Maldah,Medinipur,Birbhum,Barddhaman,Mur Family: Phytolaccaceae shidabad,Koch Bihar. 1672. Petiveria alliacea L.(1753). 1666. Chenopodium murale L.(1753). Life form: Herb Life form: Herb Habitat: Rarely grow on the dry Habitat: Moist waste lands waste lands & roadside thickets Distribution:Dinajpur, Distribution:Bankura,Medinipur,Barddhaman, Bankura,Medinipur,Maldah,Haora, 24 Koch Bihar, Birbhum, Nadia, Maldah, Parganas (Sodepur ), Jalpaiguri. Dinajpur, 24 Parganas (N) ( Sodepur ).1667. Salicornia brachiata Roxb.(1820). 1673. Rivinia humilis L.(1753). Life form: Herb Life form: Herb Habitat: Waste lands & river beds Habitat: Rarely found in the vill. Distribution:Nadia, 24 Shrubberies Parganas( Lakshmikantapur ),Medinipur. Distribution:Koch Bihar ,Hugli,Puruliya,Medinipur, 24 Parganas ( Ballygunge ),Jalpaiguri, 1668. Spinacia oleracea L.(1753). Murshidabad,Darjiling,Haora. Common name: Palang-Sak Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Cultivated Family: Polygonaceae Distribution:Darjiling,Medinipur, 24 Parganas( Madhyamgram ). 1674. Aconogonum campanulatum (Hook. f.) Hara Life form: Suffrutescent herb297 Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Undershrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1675. Aconogonum molle (D. Don) Buch.-Ham. var. molle 1685. Periscaria hydropiper (L.) Spach Life form: Shrub Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling .1676. Aconogonum molle (D. Don) Buch.-Ham. 1686. Periscaria microcephala (D. Don) H. Gross var. frondosum (Meisn.) Hara Life form: Annual herb Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1687. Periscaria mitis Gilib 1677. Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Arn.(1841). Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Climbing shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Along the trellises, rarely found as wild-climbing on thickets 1688. Periscaria nepalensis (Meisn.) H. Gross Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Kolkata, 24 Life form: Annual herb Parganas ( Bhebe Choumatha/near Distribution:Darjiling. Basirhat),Medinipur, Barddhaman,Maldah,Koch Bihar,Puruliya, 1689. Periscaria perfoliata (L.) H. Gross Dinajpur,Hugli, Bankura, Murshidabad, Life form: Shruby climber Birbhum, Haora,Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1678. Bistorta amplexicaule (D.Don) Greene 1690. Periscaria posumbu (D. Don) H. Gross Life form: Suffrutescent herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1679. Bistorta emodi (Meisn.) Hara 1691. Periscaria praetermissa (Hook. f.) Hara Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1680. Fagopyrum debotrys (D. Don) Hara 1692. Periscaria pubescens (Blume)Hara Life form: Undershrub Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1681. Fagopyrum esculentum Moench 1693. Periscaria runcinata (Buch.-Ham.) H. Gross Life form: Annual herb Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1682. Fallopia convolvulus (L.) Holub 1694. Periscaria thunberghii (Seib. & Zuss.) H. Life form: Climber Gross Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1683. Periscaria capitata (Buch.-Ham.) H. Gross Life form: Climber 1695. Polygonum barbatum var. barbatum L.(1753). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Bekh-Unjubaz Life form: Undershrub 1684. Periscaria chinensis (L.) H. Gross Habitat: Moist waste places298 Distribution:Koch Bihar,Maldah, 24 Parganas( Habitat: Rarely found in the shady Magrahat),Medinipur,Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Hugli, waste places & rice fields Murshidabad,Barddhaman,Kolkata. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S) (Behala),Nadia,Murshidabad,Puruliya,Hugli. 1696. Polygonum barbatum L. var. gracile (Denser) Steward(1830). 1702. Polygonum plebejum R. Brown var. elegans Life form: Herb Hook. f.(1886). Habitat: Waste marshy places Life form: Herb Distribution:Hugli,Haora,Dinajpur, 24 Habitat: Rarely on the roadside Parganas (S)( Sashan hedges Road/nearBaruipur),Puruliya, Distribution: 24 Murshidabad. Parganas( Ghatakpukur),Jalpaiguri.1697. Polygonum glabrum Willd.(1799). 1703. Polygonum pubescens Blume(1962). Life form: Shrub (Semi-aquatic) Life form: Shrub Habitat: Common on the ditches & Habitat: On marshy places water courses Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)( Lower Ganga Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)( Lower Ganga Delta),Nadia,Koch Bihar,Murshidabad. Delta),Jalpaiguri,Barddhaman,Koch Bihar,Haora,Maldah. 1704. Rumex dentatus L.(1771). Common name: Ambavati 1698. Polygonum hydropiper L.(1753). Life form: Annual herb Common name: Pakurmul Habitat: Near marshy places, Life form: Annual herb roadside canals & ditches Habitat: Roadsides ditches, margin Distribution:Bankura,Haora,Birbhum,South of ponds, river, drainage, jhills 24 Pgs.( Garia, Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Koch Sarbedia),Nadia,Jalpaiguri,Medinipur, Bihar,Haora,Murshidabad, 24 Darjiling,Barddhaman. Parganas(Ultadanga, Dandihat, Purandarpur). 1705. Rumex hastatus D. Don 1699. Polygonum orientale L.(1753). Life form: Annual herb Common name: Bara-Panimirich Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Wate places 1706. Rumex maritimus L.(1771). Distribution:Haora,Medinipur, 24 Common name: Ban-Palang Parganas( Dakshineswar, Bongaon). Life form: Herb Habitat: Waste lands 1700. Polygonum plebejum var. plebejum R. Br. Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Koch (1810). Bihar,Murshidabad,Haora,Medinipur, 24 Life form: Herb Parganas ( Nalban), Kolkata,Hugli,Nadia. Habitat: Sides of ditches & roadsides Distribution:Maldah,Nadia,Barddhaman,Medi 1707. Rumex nepalensis Spreng. nipur, 24 Parganas ( Saktinagar, Life form: Annual herb Dhanyakuria),Birbhum, Distribution:Darjiling. Koch Bihar,Murshidabad. 1708. Rumex orientalis Benth. ex Schult. f. 1701. Polygonum plebejum R. Br. var. effusa R. Br. Life form: Annual herb (1810). Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Herb299 Family: Aristolochiaceae Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Koch Bihar,Nadia,Maldah,Murshidabad,Haora,Kolk 1709. Aristolochia indica L.(1753). ata,Bankura, Life form: Climbing herb 24 Parganas Habitat: Rarely on the hedges & ( Kazipara/Barasat ),Medinipur,Birbhum. waste lands, along the railway tracks Distribution:Maldah,Kolkata,Jalpaiguri, 24 1716. Piper mullesna D. Don Parganas Life form: Shruby climber ( Malatipur ),Haora,Medinipur,Murshidabad. Distribution:Darjiling.Family: Piperaceae 1717. Piper nepalense Miq. Life form: Shruby climber 1710. Peperomia heyneana Miq. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Epiphytic herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1718. Piper pedicellosum Wall. Life form: Undershrub 1711. Peperomia tetraphylla (Forst. f.) Hook. & Distribution:Darjiling . Arn. Life form: Epiphytic herb 1719. Piper peeploides Roxb. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. 1712. Peperomia pellucida (L.) Kunth (1815). Common name: Luchipata Family: Lauraceae Life form: Very succulent herb Habitat: Very common in marshy 1720. Actinodaphne sikkimensis Meisn. waste lands, old walls Life form: Shrub Distribution:Hugli,Jalpaiguri, Distribution:Darjiling. Dinajpur,Maldah,Darjiling,Nadia,Barddhaman ,Koch Bihar, Murshidabad,Kolkata, 24 1721. Cassytha filiformis L.(1753). Parganas ( Atghora/Madarhat, Brace Bridge, Common name: Akash bel Sankchura/near Taki ), Medinipur. Life form: Parasitic leafless twining herb 1713. Piper betle L.(1753). Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Haora,Dinajpur,Dinajp Common name: Pan ur,Nadia,South 24 Pgs.( Diamond Harbour ), Life form: Climbing or twining shrub Koch Bihar, Hugli. Habitat: Cultivated Distribution:Dinajpur,Dinajpur, 24 Parganas ( Subhashgram ),Bankura,Koch Bihar, Nadia, 1722. Cinnamomum bejolghota (Buch.-Ham.) Jalpaiguri, Haora,Barddhaman, Sweet Hugli,Murshidabad,Medinipur. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. 1714. Piper boehmerifolium Wall. ex DC. Life form: Shruby climber 1723. Cinnamomum camphora T. Nees & Eberm. Distribution:Darjiling. (1831). Common name: Karpur Life form: Small to medium tree 1715. Piper longum L.(1753). Habitat: Very occasionally planted Common name: Pipla Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar,Nadia, 24 Life form: Shruby climber Parganas (N) Habitat: Rarely on dampy soil (Panihati ),Medinipur,Murshidabad.300 Distribution: 24 Parganas (N)( Bhebe, 1724. Cinnamomum impressinervium Meisn. Dattapukur/Barasat ),Hugli,Haora,Medinipur, Life form: Tree Koch Bihar. Distribution:Darjiling. 1732. Machilus edulis King ex Hook.f. 1725. Cinnamomum obtusifolium T. Nees & Life form: Tree Eberm.(1831). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Ram-Tejpataor Kinton Life form: Large tree 1733. Neolitsaea cuipala (D. Don) Kosterm. Habitat: Planted on village areas Life form: Tree Distribution:Maldah,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas Distribution:Darjiling. (N)( Bhebe, Birati ),Hugli,Barddhaman. 1734. Neolitsaea foliosa (T. Nees) Gamble 1726. Cinnamomum tamala T. Nees & Eberm. Life form: Tree (1831). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Tejpata Life form: Moderate sized tree 1735. Persea clarkeana (King ex Hook. f.) Kosterm. Habitat: Rarely planted Life form: Tree Distribution: 24 Distribution:Darjiling. Parganas( Kadampur/Nabgram ),Hugli,Medini pur,Nadia,Birbhum,Dinajpur,Dinajpur. 1736. Persea duthiei (King ex Hook.f.) Kosterm. Life form: Tree 1727. Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume (1825). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Dalchini or Daruchini Life form: Tree 1737. Persea gammieana (King ex Hook.f.)Kosterm. Habitat: Rarely cultivated Life form: Tree Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Harinbari/Sagar Distribution:Darjiling. Islands ). 1738. Persea odoratissima (T. Ness) Kosterm. 1728. Litsaea elongata (T. Nees) Hook. f. Life form: Tree Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1739. Phoebe lanceolata (T. Nees) Nees 1729. Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) Rob.(1911). Life form: Tree Common name: Kukur-Chita Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Medium tree Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies & Family: Proteaceae thickets, everywhere Distribution:Nadia,Murshidabad, 24 Parganas 1740. Grevillea robusta A. Cunn.(1820). (N) ( Surjyapur, Naihati ),Jalpaiguri. Life form: Robust tree Habitat: Planted 1730. Litsaea kingii Hook. f. Distribution:Koch Bihar,Birbhum,Jalpaiguri, Life form: Tree 24 Parganas . Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Loranthaceae 1731. Litsea monopetala (Roxb.) Pers.(1807). Common name: Bara-kukur-chita 1741. Dendrophthoe falcata (L.f.) Etting.(1872). Life form: Medium tree Common name: Baramanda Habitat: Vill. Thickets & shrubberies Life form: Semi-parasitic herb301 Habitat: Paraste on the Ficus Life form: Shrub benghalensis, F. religiosa, Mangifera indica & Habitat: Cultivated Melia azaderach Distribution:Kolkata,Nadia,Haora,Koch Distribution:Bankura, 24 Parganas ( Amtala, Bihar, 24 Parganas (S) ( Basanti, Rangabelia ),Medinipur,Nadia,Koch Amtala ),Medinipur,Maldah. Bihar,Murshidabad, Jalpaiguri. 1748. Acalypha indica L.(1753). 1742. Macrosolen cochinchinensis (Lour.) var Common name: Mukta-jhuri Teigh.(1894). Life form: Annual herb Common name: Chhota-Manda Habitat: Moist waste lands Life form: Bushy shrub Distribution:Hugli,Maldah,Medinipur,Jalpaigu Habitat: Semi-parasitic on the old ri, 24 Parganas (S) ( Maslandapur ),Haora trees ,Dinajpur. Distribution:Maldah,South 24 Pgs.(S) ( Maliddhar/Canning, Diamond Harbour ), 1749. Acalypha lanceolata Willd.(1805). Jalpaiguri, Murshidabad, Hugli. Life form: Herb Habitat: Waste places, near the 1743. Scurrula elata (Edgw.) Danser garbage-heaps Life form: Stem parasite Distribution:Murshidabad,Koch Bihar,South Distribution:Darjiling. 24 Pgs.( Dewanganj, Brace Bridge ).1744. Viscum articulatum Burm.f. var. 1750. Aleurites fordii Hem. liquidambaricolum (Hayata) S. Life form: Tree Life form: Stem parasite Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1751. Antidesma ghaesembilla (ghesaembilla) 1745. Viscum monoicum Roxb.(1832). Gaertn.(1788). Common name: Manda Common name: Khundi-jam Life form: Large shrub Life form: Large shrub Habitat: Parasitic on the trees of Habitat: Waste places & thickets Sunderbans mangrove forest Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Maldah, 24 Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Harinbari/Sagar Parganas( Maslandapur ). Islands ),Jalpaiguri,Murshidabad,Hugli,Koch Bihar, 1752. Baliospermum montanum (Willd.) Muell.- Medinipur,Puruliya. Arg.(1866). Common name: Danti or Hakun 1746. Viscum orientale Willd.(1806). Life form: Undershrub Common name: Banda Habitat: Rarely found in marshy, Life form: Parasitic monoecious herb shady & wasteplaces Habitat: Commonly found on Distribution:Jalpaiguri,South 24 Pgs. Exoecaria agallocha ( Nurpur, Budge Budge ),Koch Distribution:Koch Bihar,Murshidabad . Bihar,Nadia,Murshidabad,Maldah,Jalpaiguri, Barddhaman,South 24 Pgs. 1753. Bischofia javanica Blume (1827). (Kulti,Naihati ),Medinipur. Common name: Kain Life form: Medium tree Family: Euphorbiaceae Habitat: Thickets Distribution:Medinipur,Kolkata, 24 1747. Acalypha hispida Burm.f. Parganas( Malatipur ),Koch 302 Bihar,Haora,Hugli,Murshidabad, Nadia,Maldah,Jalpaiguri. 1759. Croton oblongifolius Roxb.(1832). Common name: Chucka 1754. Breynia rhamnoides (Retz.) Muell.-Arg. Life form: Medium tree (1866). Habitat: Rarely found on the waste Common name: Kali-Sitki places Life form: Shrub Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Nabagram ). Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies, hedges & river banks 1760. Euphorbia antiquorum L.(1753). Distribution:Haora,Barddhaman,Birbhum, Life form: Shrub or small tree Dinajpur,South 24 Pgs. Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies, prefer dry ( Joynagar,Garia ),Kolkata, soil Medinipur. Distribution:Murshidabad,Haora,Koch Bihar ,Dinajpur,Jalpaiguri,South 24 Pgs. 1755. Bridelia stipularia (L.) Blume(1825). (Sagar Islands), Medinipur,Barddhaman. Common name: Harinhara Life form: Woody climber 1761. Euphorbia chamaesyce L.(1753). Habitat: Rarely in the waste lands Life form: Annual herb Distribution: 24 Parganas( Diana/Salt Habitat: Rarely in the waste places Lake ),Koch Bihar,Bankura,Puruliya. Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Taki, Kalyanpur ),Nadia,Koch Bihar. 1756. Chrozophora rottleri (Geis.) Klotzsch. ex Juss. (1824). 1762. Euphorbia dracunculoides Lam.(1786). Common name: Khudi-Okra Common name: Chhagal Puputi Life form: Annual herb Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Sandy soil near the canals, Habitat: Weed of cult. Lands river banks & roadside hedges Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Tapsia ),Jalpaiguri. Distribution:Hugli,Barddhaman,Medinipur,So uth 24 Pgs.( Garia, Ghoramar/Sagar 1763. Euphorbia geniculata Orteg.(1797). Island ),Maldah, Life form: Annual herb Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri. Habitat: Moist waste places, along roadside thickets 1757. Codiaeum variegatum Blume(1826). Distribution:Murshidabad, 24 Parganas Common name: Patabahar ( Naihati ). Life form: Shrub Habitat: Planted 1764. Euphorbia himalayensis Klotz Distribution:Maldah, 24 Life form: Perennial herb Parganas( Amtala ),Koch Bihar,Haora, Distribution:Darjiling. Dinajpur. 1765. Euphorbia hirta L.(1753). 1758. Croton bonplandianum Baill.(1864). Common name: Kerui Common name: Jhunjhuni or Banlanka Life form: Herb Life form: Herb or undershrub Habitat: Weed of cult. Lands, in Habitat: Roadsides, railway tracks & waste places waste places etc. Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Baruipur, Distribution:Murshidabad,Maldah,Medinipur, Maslandapur ) Koch ,Dinajpur,Medinipur,Bankura,Puruliya, Bihar,Bankura,Kolkata,Barddhaman,Hugli, Kolkata,Maldah,Barddhaman,Hugli,Jalpaiguri, South 24 Pgs.( Fultala/Baruipur, Nadia,Haora,Darjiling,Koch Canning ),Birbhum.303 Bihar,Murshidabad, Birbhum. 24 Pgs.( Falta Fort ).1766. Euphorbia milii Desmoul (1826). 1773. Euphorbia tirucalli L.(1753). Life form: Shrub Common name: Lanka-sij Habitat: Xerophytic Habitat, railway Life form: Fleshy shrub or small tree tracks, roadsides & river banks Habitat: Hedges Distribution: 24 Parganas (N) Distribution:Bankura,Haora ( Panihati ),Haora . ,Dinajpur,Hugli,Jalpaiguri,Medinipur,South 24 Pgs.(Budge Budge ),Koch 1767. Euphorbia neriifolia L. Bihar,Kolkata,Puruliya,Maldah. Common name: Mansa Sij Life form: Shrub 1774. Excoecaria agallocha L. (1759). Habitat: Planted in the public Common name: Gneo gardens Life form: Medium tree Distribution:Bankura,Koch Bihar, 24 Parganas Habitat: Mangrove associate, grow ,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Maldah,Haora. both in halophytic intertidal & in saline condition 1768. Euphorbia nivulia Buch.-Ham.(1825). Distribution:Medinipur, 24 Common name: Sij Parganas( Surjyapur, Naraharipur ). Life form: Shrub Habitat: Hedges & shrubberies 1775. Excoecaria bicolor (Hassk.) Retz.(1855). Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Rudranagar/Sagar Common name: Lata Gneo Island ), Koch Bihar. Life form: Shrub Habitat: River banks & mangrove 1769. Euphorbia orbiculata Kunth (1817). forests of the inter-tidal areas Common name: Chhota Kerui Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Sajnakhali ). Life form: Herb Habitat: Waste places 1776. Glochidion acuminatum Muell.-Arg. Distribution:Haora,Murshidabad,South 24 Life form: Tree Pgs.( Ghoramara/Sagar, Bamanpukur ). Distribution:Darjiling .1770. Euphorbia parviflora L.(1759). 1777. Jatropha curcas L. (1753). Common name: Dudhi Common name: Bagh-Bherenda Life form: Annual herb Life form: Shrub Habitat: Weed of the waste lands Habitat: Hedge plant Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Fultala/Baruipur, Distribution:Koch Bihar,Barddhaman,South Canning ),Jalpaiguri,Medinipur. 24 Pgs.( Canning/Bisonar ), Bankura, Medinipur, 1771. Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotz Dinajpur,Kolkata,Jalpaiguri,Birbhum,Nadia,H (1834). aora,Murshidabad. Common name: Lalpata Life form: Shrub 1778. Jatropha gossypifolia L. (1753). Habitat: Cultivated Common name: Lal-Bherenda Distribution: 24 Parganas, Jalpaiguri. Life form: Shrub Habitat: Vill. Shrubbries, roadsides 1772. Euphorbia thymifolia L.(1753). Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Bhangankhali, Common name: Swet-kerui Ultadanga ). Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Waste lands, river banks 1779. Macaranga pustulata King Distribution:Maldah,Nadia,Koch Bihar,South 304 Life form: Tree Common name: Nore or Note Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Small to medium tree Habitat: Rarely planted in the 1780. Mallotus nepalensis Muell.-Arg. gardens Life form: Tree Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Shyamnagar ). Distribution:Darjiling. 1787. Phyllanthus asperulatus Hutch. (1920). 1781. Mallotus philippensis (Lam.) Muell.-Arg. Common name: Bhui amla (1865). Life form: Annual herb Common name: Tunj Habitat: Waste lands & as weed of Life form: Small to medium sized tree cult. Fields Habitat: Along roadsides & waste Distribution:Murshidabad,Maldah,Jalpaiguri,S lands outh 24 Pgs. ( Dapdhapi ). Distribution:Bankura,Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Hu gli,Murshidabad,Maldah,Barddhaman, 24 1788. Phyllanthus emblica L.(1753). Parganas Common name: Amlaki ( Ramnagar-Jugdia ),Koch Bihar. Life form: Small to moderate tree Habitat: Rarely planted 1782. Mallotus rependus (Willd.) Muell.-Arg.(1865). Distribution: Dinajpur,Puruliya,Kolkata,South Common name: Akus 24 Pgs.( Purandarpur/nearBaruipur ),Nadia, Life form: Large scandent or sub- Bankura,Barddhaman,Jalpaiguri,Darjiling,Bir scandent dioecious shrub bhum,Murshidabad,Koch Bihar,Medinipur. Habitat: On the hedges& vill. Thickets 1789. Phyllanthus reticulatus Poir.(1804). Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Garia ). Common name: Panjuli Life form: Shrub 1783. Micrococca mercurialis (L.) Benth. ex Hook. Habitat: Thickets & hedges (1849). Distribution:Bankura,Birbhum,Hugli,Barddha Life form: Annual herb man,Darjiling,Medinipur, 24 Parganas Habitat: Rarely on the railway tracks ( Jugdia-Benipur, Sanchura ),Kolkata,Haora. & roadsides Distribution:Nadia,Puruliya,South 24 Pgs.(N) 1790. Phyllanthus urinaria L. (1753). ( Ichhapur ),Haora,Darjiling,Murshidabad,Koc Common name: Hazarmani h Bihar. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Waste places 1784. Ostodes paniculata Blume Distribution:Medinipur,Dinajpur,Nadia,Koch Life form: Tree Bihar,Murshidabad,Jalpaiguri,Darjiling,Hugli, Distribution:Darjiling. Birbhum,Kolkata, 24 Parganas (N) ( Jugdia- Benipur, Dakshineswar ). 1785. Pedilanthus tithymaloides (L.) Poir.(1812). Common name: Rangchita 1791. Phyllanthus virgatus Forst. f. (1786). Life form: Succulent shrub Life form: Herb Habitat: Hedges & shrubberies Habitat: Rare weed on the cult. Distribution:Haora,Barddhaman,Maldah,Murs Lands & waste places hidabad, 24 Parganas Distribution:Barddhaman,Medinipur, 24 ( Arbelia ),Puruliya,Jalpaiguri, Parganas ( Taki, Hugli,Kolkata,Medinipur. Basanti ),Darjiling,Jalpaiguri,Haora, Koch Bihar. 1786. Phyllanthus acidus (L.) Skeels(1909). 305 1792. Putranjiva roxburghii Wall. (1826). ( Malancha, Bhangankhali ). Common name: Putranjiva Life form: Moderate to large tree 1799. Synostemon bacciforme (L.) Webster (1960). Habitat: Ornamental avenue tree Life form: Annual, fleshy herb Distribution:Kolkata,Darjiling,Medinipur,Hao Habitat: Dampy places ra, 24 Parganas ( Naihati, Salt Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Nadia,Maldah,S Lake ),Birbhum, Koch outh 24 Pgs.( Sagar Island ),Kolkata. Bihar,Jalpaiguri,Maldah,Hugli,Murshidabad. 1800. Tragia hispida Willd. (1805). 1793. Ricinus communis L. (1753). Life form: Climber Common name: Redi or Rerri Habitat: Shrubberies, roadsides or Life form: Small tree along railway tracks Habitat: Rarely planted, garden Distribution:Nadia,Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas edges & waste lands, along railway tracks ( Goranbose ),Medinipur,Hugli. Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Atghara/Madarhat ),Kolkata,Puruliya,Medini 1801. Tragia involucrata L.(1753). pur,Hugli,Nadia,Jalpaiguri, Common name: Bichhuti Darjiling,Koch Bihar,Murshidabad. Life form: Stout herb Habitat: Waste lands 1794. Sapium indicum Willd. (1805). Distribution:Kolkata,South 24 Pgs. Common name: Hurnabatul ( Baruipur, Canning ),Jalpaiguri,Medinipur. Life form: Tree Habitat: Back mangrove species, 1802. Trewia nudiflora L.(1753). ridge forests, roadsides, vill. Shrubberies Common name: Petali Distribution:Murshidabad, 24 Parganas Life form: Medium tree ( Rangabelia ),Koch Bihar,Nadia. Habitat: Common on salt soil of village surroundings 1795. Sapium sebiferum Roxb. (1832). Distribution:South 24 Pgs. Common name: Manchina (Sunderbans,Gosaba, Bhebe/near Life form: Small to moderate tree Basirhat),Medinipur,Jalpaiguri,Koch Bihar. Habitat: Planted Distribution:Dinajpur,Hugli,South 24 Pgs. Family: Ulmaceae ( Sagar Mela Premises ), Maldah, Barddhaman, Birbhum. 1803. Trema orientalis (L.) Blume (1856). Common name: Jilan or Chikan 1796. Sauropus pubescens Hook.f. Life form: Small to medium tree Life form: Shrub Habitat: Along railway tracks, waste Distribution:Darjiling. lands, vill. Thickets & shrubberies Distribution:Kolkata,Medinipur,Maldah,Murs 1797. Sauropus quadrangularis (Willd.) Muell.-Arg. hidabad, 24 Parganas( Dakshin Life form: Shrub Barasat ),Jalpaiguri, Hugli,Koch Distribution:Darjiling. Bihar,Barddhaman,Nadia,Birbhum.1798. Suregada multiflora (Juss.) Baill. (1858). Family: Urticaceae Common name: Ban-Naranga Life form: Tree 1804. Boehmeria platyphylla D. Don Habitat: Scrub-jungles & moist Life form: Shrub places Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Maldah,South 24 Pgs.306 1805. Chamabainia cuspidata Wight Life form: Perennial herb 1816. Elatostema sikkimensis C.B.Clarke Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1806. Debregesia longifolia (Burm.f.) Wedd. Life form: Shrub 1817. Fleurya interrupta (L.) Gaud. (1826). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Lal-Bichuti Life form: Perennial herb 1807. Debregesia salicifolia (D. Don) Rendle Habitat: Dampy waste places, Life form: Shrub roadsides, old walls Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Maldah,Kolkata,Medinipur,Hugli ,Jalpaiguri,Haora,Koch Bihar ,Dinajpur, 24 1808. Debregesia wallichiana Wedd. Parganas( Madhyampur/near Taki ),Birbhum. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1818. Girardiana diversifolia (Link) Friss Life form: Shrub 1809. Elatostema cuneatum Wight (1853). Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Rarely on shdy areas 1819. Gonostegia hirta (Blume) Miq. Distribution:Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Nadia,Darjiling, Life form: Perennial herb Koch Bihar,Murshidabad, 24 Parganas Distribution:Darjiling. (Beliachandi ), Medinipur. 1820. Laportea terminalis Wight Life form: Undershrub 1810. Elatostema dissectum Wedd. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1821. Leucanthus peduneularis (Royle) Wedd. Life form: Pertennial herb 1811. Elatostema hookerianum Wedd. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1822. Oreocnide frutescens (Thunb.) Miq. Life form: Shrub 1812. Elatostema monandrum ( Buch-Ham. ex D. Distribution:Darjiling . Don)Hara Life form: Annual herb 1823. Pilea anisophylla Wedd. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1813. Elatostema obtusum Wedd. Life form: Perennial herb 1824. Pilea approximata C.B.Clarke Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Epiphytic herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1814. Elatostema rupestre (Buch-Ham. ex D. Don) Wedd. 1825. Pilea bracteosa Wedd. var. bracteosa Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1815. Elatostema sessile Forster 1826. Pilea bracteosa Wedd. var. oxydon (Wedd.) Life form: Perennial herb Hara Distribution:Darjiling.307 Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Moraceae 1827. Pilea microphylla (L.) Liebm. var. microphylla (1851). 1835. Artocarpus heterophullus Lam. (1789). Common name: Gun-powder Plant Common name: Kanthal Life form: Very minute herb Life form: Large tree Habitat: Dampy areas & old brick Habitat: Self grown in the orchards walls Distribution:Medinipur,Hugli,Maldah,Kolkata Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Dakshin , 24 Parganas ( Amtala ),Koch Barasat ),Jalpaiguri,Darjiling,Koch Bihar,Barddhaman, Nadia,Birbhum. Bihar,Haora ,Dinajpur, Nadia. 1836. Artocarpus lakoccha Roxb. (1832). 1828. Pilea microphylla (L) Liebm. var. symmeria Common name: Dephal Wedd. Life form: Tree Life form: Epiphytic herb Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Jalpaiguri ,Dinajpur,Koch Bihar,Puruliya, 24 Parganas( Chemagari/Sagar 1829. Pilea microphylla (L.) Liebm. var. umbrosa Islands ). Wedd. Life form: Perennial herb 1837. Broussonetia papyrifera Vent. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Small tree Habitat: Planted 1830. Pilea microphylla (L.) Liebm. var. wightii Distribution: 24 Parganas,Jalpaiguri. Wedd. Life form: Epiphytic herb 1838. Ficus benghalensis L. (1753). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Bat or Bar Life form: Large tree 1831. Procris crenulata C.B. Rob. Habitat: Roadsides & vicinity of Life form: Shrub temples Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Dinajpur, 24 Parganas ( Canning ),Barddhaman,Darjiling,Birbhum,K 1832. Pouzolzia zeylanica (L.) Burm. f.(1828). och Bihar, Life form: Herb Hugli,Maldah,Kolkata,Haora,Bankura,Jalpaig Habitat: Common weed of waste uri,Puruliya,Murshidabad,Nadia,Medinipur. places & garden edges Distribution:Koch 1839. Ficus benjamina L. var. comosa Kurz Bihar,Medinipur,Kolkata,Puruliya,Bankura, Life form: Tree 24 Parganas( Dhopagachi, Benipur ), Habitat: Avenue tree Maldah,Haora, Jalpaiguri,Nadia,Birbhum Distribution: 24 Parganas ,Dinajpur,Murshidabad, Hugli, Barddhaman, ( Bamanpukur/Minakhan ),Jalpaiguri,Koch Darjiling. Bihar.1833. Urtica ardens Link 1840. Ficus elastica Roxb. (1832). Life form: Shrub Common name: Attah-bar Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Large tree Habitat: Rarely planted 1834. Urtica dioica L. Distribution:Medinipur,Kolkata,Maldah,Koch Life form: Shrub Bihar,Murshidabad,Hugli, 24 Parganas 308 ( Bahuru ). Life form: Large tree Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies, jungles, 1841. Ficus hetrophylla L. f. (1781). sometimes epiphytic in nature Common name: Gaori-Sheora Distribution:Medinipur,Nadia, 24 Life form: Shrub Parganas( Jugdia- Habitat: Dampy areas or near water Benipur ),Kolkata,Puruliya,Koch courses Bihar,Bankura, Distribution: Dinajpur,South 24 Pgs.( Budge Haora,Birbhum,Darjiling,Hugli,Barddhaman,J Budge ),Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Haora,Medinipur. alpaiguri,Murshidabad ,Dinajpur,Maldah.1842. Ficus hispida L. f. (1781). 1849. Ficus rumphii Blume (1825). Common name: Dumur Common name: Gaiaswattha Life form: Shrub or small tree. Life form: Large tree Habitat: Vill. Thickets, hedges Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies Distribution:Murshidabad,Birbhum,Barddham Distribution: 24 Parganas an,Kolkata,Nadia,Koch Bihar,Medinipur, 24 (Nurpur ),Nadia,Koch Parganas Bihar,Murshidabad,Medinipur,Barddhaman. ( Piyalinagar/Baruipur ). 1850. Ficus semicordata Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. (1810). 1843. Ficus hookeriana Corner Common name: Jagya Dumur Life form: Tree Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies Distribution:Darjiling, 24 Parganas( Beliachandi ),Jalpaiguri. 1844. Ficus microcarpa L. f. (1781). Common name: Jir-Kamrup Life form: Tree 1851. Ficus virens Aiton (1789). Habitat: Rare on the vill. Common name: Pakur Shrubberies Life form: Large tree Distribution:South 24 Pgs.( Sunderban area, Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies Tapsia ). Distribution:Maldah,South 24 Pgs. ( Durgapur ). 1845. Ficus nerifolia J. E. Sm. Life form: Tree 1852. Morus australis Poir. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1846. Ficus oligodon Miq. Life form: Tree 1853. Morus indica L. (1753). Distribution:Darjiling. Common name: Tut Life form: Monoecious tree Habitat: Rarely planted 1847. Ficus racemosa L. (1753). Distribution:Maldah,Jalpaiguri,Hugli,Murshid Common name: Jagha Dumur abad,Medinipur,Birbhum, Life form: Medium to large tree ,Dinajpur,Barddhaman, Koch Bihar,Nadia, 24 Habitat: Vill. Shrubberies, sides of Parganas ( Dandirhat/Taki ),Bankura,Kolkata. vill. Ponds or ditches Distribution:Jalpaiguri, 24 Parganas ( Satzelia ),Murshidabad ,Dinajpur,Maldah. 1854. Morus macroura Miq. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. 1848. Ficus religiosa L. (1753). Common name: Aswatha309 1855. Streblus asper Lour. (1790). Life form: Tree Common name: Sheora Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Rigid shrub Habitat: Hedges & vill. Shrubbries 1860. Acer cappndocium Gleditach Distribution: 24 Parganas ( Budge Budge). Life form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling. Family: Cannabaceae 1861. Acer caudatumn Wall. 1856. Cannabins sativa L. (1753). Life form: Tree Common name: Ganga, Bhang or Siddhi Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: Cultivated but under control 1862. Acer hookeri Miq. Distribution:Nadia,Puruliya,Bankura,Kolkata, Life form: Tree 24 Parganas , Medinipur,Murshidabad,Koch Distribution:Darjiling. Bihar, Jalpaiguri,Birbhum,Hugli,Darjiling,Barddham 1863. Acer laevigatum Wall. an,Maldah ,Dinajpur. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Casurinaceae 1864. Acer oblongum Wall.ex DC. 1857. Casuarina equisetifolia L. ex J. R. & G. Foster Life form: Tree (1776). Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Habitat: Coastal areas 1865. Acer osmastonii Gamble Distribution:Haora,Puruliya,Murshidabad,Jalp Life form: Tree aiguri,Barddhaman,Maldah,Nadia,Koch Distribution:Darjiling. Bihar,Hugli, Dinajpur ,Darjiling,Bankura,South 24 Pgs. ( Sunderban, Bakkhali, Frasergunj, Kakdwip, 1866. Acer palmatum Thunb. Reserve forest of Sunderbans, Sagar Mela Life form: Tree Premises/Sagar Distribution:Darjiling. Islands),Medinipur,Kolkata,Birbhum. 1867. Acer pectinatum Wall. ex Pax Life form: Tree Family: Ceratophyllaceae Distribution: Darjiling. 1858. Ceratophyllum demersum L. (1753). 1868. Acer sikkimense Miq. Common name: Jhanji Life form: Tree Life form: Submerged, aquatic herb Distribution:Darjiling. Habitat: Common in lakes, ponds & marshes, associated with Hydrilla verticillata Distribution:Kolkata,Maldah,Jalpaiguri, 1869. Acer stachyophyllum Hien. Dinajpur,Barddhaman, 24 Life form: Tree Parganas(Magrahat ),Bankura, Distribution: Darjiling. Hugli,Medinipur,Nadia,Koch Bihar,Murshidabad. 1870. Acer sterculiaceum Wall. Life form: Tree Family: Aceraceae Distribution: Darjiling.1859. Acer campbellii Hook.f. et.Thoms. 1871. Acer thomsonii Miq.310 Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Betulaceae Family: Actinidiaceae 1882. Alnus nepalensis D.Don Life form: Tree 1872. Actinidia strigosa Hook. f. & Thoms. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Climber Distribution:Darjiling. 1883. Betula alnoides Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Life form: Tree 1873. Alangium alpinum (Cl.) W.W. Smith Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Buddlejaceae Family: Aquifoliaceae 1884. Buddleja asiatica Lour. Life form: Shrub 1874. Ilex depyrena Wall. Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. 1885. Buddleja davidi Franch. Life form: Shrub 1875. Ilex fragilis Hook. f. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. 1886. Buddleja paniculata Wall. Life form: Shrub 1876. Ilex insignis Hook. f. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Callitrichaceae Family: Berberidaceae 1887. Callitriche stagnalis Scop. Life form: Annual herb 1877. Berberis aristata DC. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Caprifoliaceae 1878. Berberis desyclada Ahrendt 1888. Abelia serrata Sieb. & Zucc. Life form: Shrub Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1879. Berberis insignis Hook. f. & Thoms. 1889. Leycesteria formosa Wall. Life form: Shrub Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1880. Berberis wallichiana DC. 1890. Leycesteria stipulata (Hook. f. & Thoms.) Life form: Shrub Fritsch Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1881. Mahonia acanthifolia G. Don Life form: Shrub 1891. Lonicera glabrata Wall. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shruby climber311 Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Daphniphyllaceae 1892. Lonicera japonica Thunb. 1902. Daphniphyllum himalayense Muell. -Arg. Life form: Shruby climber Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1893. Vibernum coreaceum Blume Family: Dipsaceceae Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1903. Dipsacus atratus Hook. f. & Thoms. Life form: Annual herb Family: Carlemanniaceae Distribution:Darjiling.1894. Carlemannia conjesta Hook. f. Family: Fagaceae Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1904. Castanopsis hystrix D. Don Life form: Tree 1895. Carlemannia griffithii Benth. Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1905. Castanopsis tribuloides (Sm.) A. DC. Life form: Tree Family: Cobaeaceae Distribution: Darjiling.1896. Cobaea scandens Cav. 1906. Lithocarpus grandiflora (D. Don) S. N. Life form: Shruby climber Biswas Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Cornaceae 1907. Lithocarpus pachyphylla (Kurz.) Rehder 1897. Aucuba himalaica Hook.f. & Thums. Life form: Tree Life form: shrub or small tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling. 1908. Quercus dentata Thunb. 1898. Benthamidia capitata (Wall.) Hara Life form: Tree Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1909. Quercus glauca Thunb. 1899. Cornus capitata Wall. ex. Roxb. Life form: Tree Life form: Small tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling. 1910. Quercus lamellosa Sm. 1900. Cornus macrophylla Wall. Life form: Tree Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling. 1911. Quercus lineata Blume var. lineata 1901. Helwingea himalaica Hook. f. & Thoms. Life form: Tree Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1912. Quercus lineata Blume var. oxydon (Miq.) 312 Wenz. Thoms. Life form: Tree Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1913. Quercus lineata Blume var. thomsoniana (A. 1924. Swertia chirayita (Roxb.) Karston DC.) Wenz. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1925. Swertia ciliata (D. Don ex G. Don) B.L. Burtt 1914. Quercus semicarpifolia Sm. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling . 1926. Swertia dialata C. B. Clarke Family: Gentianaceae Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1915. Gentiana argentea (D. Don) C.B.Clarke Life form: Annual herb 1927. Swertia nervosa (D. Don) C. B. Clarke Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1916. Gentiana bryoides Burkhill Life form: Annual herb 1928. Swertia tonglensis Burkhill Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1917. Gentiana capitata Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Life form: Annual herb 1929. Tripterospermum volubile (D. Don) Hara Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Climber Distribution:Darjiling. 1918. Gentiana inflex C.B. Clarke Life form: Annual herb Family: Geraniaceae Distribution:Darjiling. 1930. Geranium donianum Sweet 1919. Gentiana micans C. B. Clarke Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1931. Geranium napaulense Sweet 1920. Gentiana pedicellata (D. Don) Wall. ex Griseb Life form: Annual herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Gesneriaceae 1921. Gentiana speciosa (Wall.) Marq. Life form: Climber 1932. Achimenes longiflora DC. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Habitat: 1922. Halenia elliptica D.Don Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1933. Aeschynanthes acuminatus Wall. ex DC. Life form: Epiphytic undershrub 1923. Swertia bimaculata (Sieb & Zucc.) Hook. f. & Distribution:Darjiling.313 1934. Aeschynanthes bracteatus Wall. ex DC. 1946. Didymocarpus villosus D. Don Life form: Epiphytic undershrub Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1935. Aeschynanthes hookeri C.B.Clarke 1947. Loxostigma griffithii (Wight) C.B. Clarke Life form: Epiphytic undershrub Life form: Undershrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1936. Aeschynanthes parviflorus (D. Don) Spreng. 1948. Loxostigma kurzii (C.B. Clarke) B.L. Burtt Life form: Epiphytic undershrub Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1937. Chirita clarkei Hook. f. 1949. Lysionotus serratus D. Don Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Epiphytic undershrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1938. Chirita macrophylla Wall. 1950. Rhynchoglossum obliqum Blume Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.1939. Chirita primulacea C. B. Clarke Family: Hamamelidaceae Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1951. Exbucklandia populnea (R. Br. ex Griff.) R. W. Br. 1940. Chirita pumila D. Don Life form: Tree Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Hippocastanaceae 1941. Didymocarpus albicalyx C.B. Clarke Life form: Perennial herb 1952. Aesculus indica (Camb.) Hook.f. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. 1942. Didymocarpus aromaticus Wall. ex D. Don Life form: Perennial herb Family: Hydrangeaceae Distribution:Darjiling. 1953. Deutzia compacta Craib. 1943. Didymocarpus oblonga Wall. ex D. Don Life form: Shrub Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1954. Deutzia crenata Seib. & Zucc. 1944. Didymocarpus podocarpus C.B. Clarke Life form: Shrub Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1955. Deutzia staminea R. Br. ex Wall. 1945. Didymocarpus pulcher C. B. Clarke Life form: Shrub Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.314 1956. Dichroa febrifuga Lour. Distribution:Darjiling. 1967. Curculigo crassifolia (Baker) Hook. f. Life form: Perennial herb 1957. Hydrangea anomala D. Don Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. 1968. Hypoxis aurea Lour. Life form: Geophyte 1958. Hydrangea macrophylla (Thunb.) Seringe Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Junaceae 1959. Hydrangea robusta Hook. f. & Thoms. 1969. Juncus bufonius L. Life form: Shrub Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling . Distribution:Darjiling.Family: Hypericaceae 1970. Juncus effusus L. Life form: Annual herb 1960. Hypericum elodioides Choisy Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1971. Juncus leschnaultii Gay Life form: Annual herb 1961. Hypericum himalaicum N. Robson Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling. 1972. Juncus ochraceus Buchenau Life form: Annual herb 1962. Hypericum hookerianum Wight & Arn. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Dicotyledons Family: Lardizabalaceae 1963. Hypericum japonicum Thunb. ex Murray Life form: Annual herb 1973. Holboelia latifolia Wall. var. latifolia Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. 1964. Hypericum petiolulatum Hook. f. ex Dyer Life form: Annual herb 1974. Holboelia latifolia Wall. var.angustifolia Distribution:Darjiling. (Wall.) Hook. f. Life form: Shruby climber 1965. Hypericum uralum Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Distribution:Darjiling . Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1975. Urticularia striatula Sm. Life form: Annual herb Monocotyledons Distribution:Darjiling.Family: Hypoxidaceae Family: Lobeliaceae 1966. Curculigo capitulata (Lour.) O.Kuntze 1976. Lobelia pyramidalis Wall. Life form: Shrub Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.315 1977. Pratia montana (Reinw.) Hassak. Family: Portulacaceae Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling . 1986. Portulaca oleracea L. Life form: Annual herb 1978. Pratia nummularia (Lam.) A. Br. & Ascher. Distribution: 24 Parganas (S)( Suparibhanga Life form: Perennial herb Sunderbans),Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Sabiaceae Family: Monotropaceae 1987. Meliosma pinnata (Roxb.) Maxim. 1979. Monotropa uniflora L. Life form: Tree Life form: Saprophyte Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 1988. Meliosma dilleniaefilia (Wall. ex Wight & Family: Nandinaceae Arn. Walp.) Life form: Tree 1980. Nandina domestica Thunb. Distribution: Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 1989. Meliosma simplicifilia (Roxb.) Walp. Life form: Tree 1981. Passiflora edulis Sims Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri, Koch Life form: Shruby climber Bihar Distribution:Darjiling. 1990. Sabia campanulata Wall. Family: Passifloraceae Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. 1982. Passiflora nepalensis Wall. Life form: Shruby climber 1991. Sabia leptandra Hook. f. et Thoms. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Phytolaceacoae 1992. Sabia limoniacea Wall. ex Hook.f. 1983. Phytolacca acinosa Roxb. & Thoms. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Woody climber Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution: Jalpaiguri.Family: Platnaceae 1993. Sabia paniculata Edgew. ex Hook.f. & Thums. 1984. Platanus orientalis L. Life form: Climber Life form: Tree Distribution: Jalpaiguri. Distribution:Darjiling. 1994. Sabia parviflora Wall. Family: Podostemaceae Life form: Scandent shrub Distribution: Darjiling. 1985. Hydrobryum griffithii (Wall.) Tulasne Life form: Aquatic annual 1995. Sabia purpurea Hook.f. & Thums. Distribution:Darjiling.316 Life form: Shrub or climber Life form: Tree Distribution: Darjiling. Distribution: Darjiling.Family: Salicaceae 2005. Saurauia roxbughii Wall. Life form: Tree 1996. Salix babylonica Wall. ex Royle Distribution: Darjiling, Jalpaiguri. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Saxifragaceae Family: Sambucaceae 2006. Astilbe rivularis Buch.-Ham. Life form: Undershrub 1997. Sambucus canadensis L. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 2007. Bergenia ciliata (Buch.-Ham) Sternb. Life form: Perennial herb 1998. Sambucus hookeri Rehder Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 2008. Chrysosplenium nepalense D. Don Life form: Perennial herb Family: Santalaceae Distribution:Darjiling.1999. Dufrenoya granulata (Hook. f. & Thoms. ex 2009. Philadelphus tomentosus Wall. ex G.Don DC.) Stauf. Life form: Shrub Life form: Epiphytic shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. 2010. Saxifraga sarmontosa L.f. 2000. Pyrularia edulis (Wall.) DC. Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Schisandraceae Family: Saururaceae 2011. Schisandra grandiflora (Wall.)Hook. f. & 2001. Hottuynia cordata Thunb. Thoms. Life form: Perennial herb Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.2002. Saurauia fasciculata Wall. 2012. Schisandra neglecta A. C. Smith Life form: Tree Life form: Shruby climber Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling .Family: Saurauiaceae 2013. Schisandra propinqua (Wall.) Ball. Life form: Shruby climber 2003. Saurauia napaulensis DC. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Staphyleaceae 2004. Saurauia punduana Wall. 2014. Turpinia cochinchensis (Lour.) Merr.317 Life form: Shrub or small tree Distribution: Darjiling. 2025. Eurya acuminata DC. Life form: Tree 2015. Turpinia pomifera (Roxb.)DC. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. 2026. Eurya japonica Thunb. Life form: Shrub Family: Styricaceae Distribution: Jalpaiguri.2016. Styrax hookeri C. B. Clarke 2027. Eurya cerassifolia (D. Don) Kobuski Life form: Tree Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.2017. Styrax serrulatus Roxb. 2028. Schima wallichii (DC.) Korth. Life form: Tree Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.Family: Symplocaceae Family: Thymeliaceae 2018. Symplocos cochinchinensis (Lour.) S. Moore 2029. Daphne bholua Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Life form: Tree Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.2019. Symplocos glomerata King ex C.B.Clarke 2030. Daphne glacialis (Sm. & Cav.) A.P. Das & Life form: Tree Chanda Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 2020. Symplocos lucida (Thunb.) Sieb & Zucc. Life form: Tree 2031. Daphne involucrata Wall. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 2021. Symplocos ramosissima Wall. ex G. Don Life form: Tree 2032. Daphne sureil W. W. Sm. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling. 2022. Symplocos theaefolia D. Don Life form: Tree 2033. Edgwarthia gardnerii (Wall.) Meisner Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Tree Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Theaceae Family: Umbelliferae 2023. Camelia kissi Wall. Life form: Shrub 2034. Bupleurum hamiltonii Balak. Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. 2024. Camelia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze Life form: Shrub 2035. Centella asiatica (L.) Urban Distribution:Darjiling. Life form: Perennial herb318 Distribution:Darjiling. Family: Valeriannaceae2036. Chaerophyllum reflexum Lindl. 2047. Valeriana hardwikii Wall. Life form: Annual herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling.2037. Heracleum nepalense D. Don 2048. Valeriana jatamansi Jones Life form: Annual herb Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling. Distribution:Darjiling .2038. Hydrocotyle himalaica P. K. Mukherjee Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling.2039. Hydrocotyle nepalensis Hook. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling.2040. Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides Lam. Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling.2041. Oenanthe thomsonii C. B. Clarke Life form: Annual herb Distribution:Darjiling.2042. Pimpinella diversifolia DC. Life form: Annual herb Distribution: Darjiling.2043. Sanicula elata Buch.-Ham. Life form: Suffrutescent herb Distribution:Darjiling.2044. Selinum tenuifolium Wall. ex C. B. Clarke Life form: Perennial herb Distribution:Darjiling.Family: Vacciniaceae2045. Vaccineum retusum (Griff.) Hook. f. ex C.B.Clarke Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling.2046. Vaccineum vacciniaceum (Roxb.) Sleumer Life form: Shrub Distribution:Darjiling.319

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