Apart from descriptions, distribution and cultural notes on a number of native genera, species and hybrids, chapters are included on the importance and uses, environment, structure of orchids, housing, potting media, manuring, pests and diseases, pollination, fertilization, hybridization, seed dispersal, propagation, and seedlings and their care. Profusely illustrated to help botanists, collectors, and growers in identifying the plants.
Contents: Importance, distribution, classification propagation and cultivation of orchids; Genera and species of Indian orchids.