Scrub typhus has been previously reported from north and eastern Indian states and areas such as Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim, and Darjeeling district of West Bengal. It has also been known to be endemic in some parts of South India (Eastern and Western Ghats). However, no cases have ever been reported from the southern districts of West Bengal. Here, we report five cases of scrub t...

A new species of the genus Amphinemura (Plecoptera: Nemouridae: Amphinemurinae), A. baumanni sp. n. is described on the basis of five males collected in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal, India. A new species of the genus Sphaeronemoura (Amphinemurinae), S. siveci sp. n. is described on the basis of a single male collected in the West Garo Hills District of Meghalaya, India. A checklist of...

Sir,?I would like to briefly record an outbreak of this disease at Margaret's Hope Tea Estate at an elevation of 5,000 feet. The outbreak was traced to the arrival of the wife of a tea-maker who arrived ill direct from Nepaul. This occurred at the end of May of^this year. The total number of cases were 25, of these 15 recovered, 10 died, 4 cases relapsed once, and 2 cases twice. The Main Sympto...

In continuation of our studies on the phytochemical investigation of medicinal plants available in the foothills of Darjeeling and Teri, we report herein the isolation of two triterpenoids betulinic acid and lupeol from the leaf extract of Psidium guajava and their potential antimicrobial and phytotoxic activities. All the structures of the isolated compounds were confirmed by spectral (IR, NMR...

The present review describes the morphological, phytochemical and pharmacologyaspects of Cinnamomum tamala (Lauraceae). The plant grows wild in the tropical and subtropical Himalayas, the Khasi hills, the nilgiri hills and at the foot of the Sikkim Himalayas. There are many plantation of this species. Used as carminative, used in colic and diarrhoea. Bark is aromatic, stimulant, antigonorrhoeic...

Sikkim is a very small hilly state in the Eastern Himalayas with a total geographical area of 7096. sq. kms. Sikkim, covering just 0.2% of the geographical area of the country, harbours more 26% flowering plants has tremendous biodiversity in the Eastern Himalayas. The present paper enumerates status and traditional uses of 79 plant species by the ethnic and rural people of eastern Sikkim Himal...

Mycomya Rondani specimens from the Himalayas, mostly Nepal and Myanmar, are revised. Altogether four species of the subgenus Cesamya Koçak & Kemal and eleven species of the subgenus Mycomyopsis Väisänen are recorded from the Himalayas and the Indian subcontinent. The paper includes a key to the Himalayan species of Mycomya of the two subgenera. The following fourteen new species are described: ...

Himachal Pradesh state of India is situated in the outer Himalayan ranges. During the rainy season, several cases of acute febrile illness of unknown origin occurred. Orientia tsutsugamushi was identified as the causative agent by microimmunofluorescence and PCR. Two new genotypes of O. tsutsugamushi were identified in the region.

The cosmopolitan genus Carex L. represented about 1,800-2,000 species mainly in temperate and cold regions of the world. 49 species of Carex found in North-eastern India and 33 species in the rest part of India. Systematics of different taxa (subgenera, sections species pairs etc.) of the genus is quite complicated. In Carex, utricle morphology and fruit epidermal silicabodies have been used to...