Synopsis The State of Chhattisgarh is one of the botanically richest and interesting tegions of the country. Although the floristic account of the erstwhile Madhya Pradesh state was brought put based on exploration of 28 (out of 45) districts only, the region under Chhattisgarh was explored by the authors. After the reorganization, the floristic account of the state is not yet published. Present attempt is first in this direction. In this work, taxanomic account of 99 species under 10 genera have been given with key to the genera and species. A comparative analysis has also been worked out the distribution of different taxa in the two sister states.