A very instructive and comprehensive book, containing information on aquatic and wetland plants ... The author, with numerous co-workers, has summarized an extensive amount of data on the distribution, biology and ecology of the plants (only chromosome counts are lacking), and has created a valuable synthesis. The book is necessary not only for anyone who is interested in the flora of peninsula India, but it is a useful source of information for researchers and
students of tropical floras or taxonomy and the distribution of wetland and water species on a worldwide scale.