• Contains descriptions of 988 Trees belonging to 87 families.

• Has 568 pages, 255 black and white photographs and 193 line drawings of Trees.

• Separate photographs provided for the Evergreen, Deciduous, Scrub and Mangrove Trees.

• Sacred, Rare, Endemic, Ornamental, Fruit-bearing, Littoral Trees are tabulated.

• Contains Maps of Forests of South India and Western and Eastern Ghats.

• This book is brought out after a gap of more than a century after Bourdillon’s The Forest Trees of Travancore (1908).

• The book is also equally useful wherever Tropical Evergreen, Deciduous and Scrub Forests exist in Peninsular India.