The book gives an account of the pharmacognostic studies on eleven genera and three market samples of the family Papilionaceae. The present attempts have been made to investigate and establish the status of this family which will be helpful in further studies and these plants will find their use for utilization in different ailments. It illustrates macroscopical and microscopical characters of different plant parts, quantitative microscopy of leaf drugs, histochemistry for detection of localized chemical constituents in various tissues and phytochemical account. In the present investigation...