“…Reports are available on chromosome counts on a large number of genera (Senn 1938, Darlington and Janaki-Ammal 1955, Fedorov 1969, Sanjappa and Dasgupta 1983, Mukherjee and Sharma 1987. However, a perusal of literature shows that karyological studies are limited to mitotic analysis of root and in certain cases in shoot tip.…”