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Synopsis This volume of 950 plates is the first of the 4-parts Flora of the Palni Hills due to be completed in 1997 as the montane counterpart of the author’s Flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic that covered a representative sector of the Tamilnadu plains and the southern hill ranges of the Eastern Ghats falling within Tamilnadu. That plant illustrations are the users’ top priority became clearer as the publication of the previous series progressed, where a total of 1,716 species were illustrated. The present series adds another 914 species. These along with another 250 plates to be published along with the 3-part text in 1997, will be the most complete coverage of the peninsular Indian Flora east of the Western Ghats. A special feature is the high percentage of alien plants that have become a permanent feature of the Indian hill stations. These plants were little known, or worse, known under wrong names. The author’s Exotic Flora of Kodaikanal (1969) was an early attempt to remedy this situation. This has now been further carried forward taking care to name all the plants correctly with overseas collaboration, and providing detailed illustrations.