This paper describes the community structure of two prominant forest types i.e., moist deciduous miscellaneous and riverian Khair-Sissu forests of Himalayan foot hills in relation to their analytic and synthetic characters. The importance value index (IVI) values recorded from moist deciduous miscellaneous forest were maximum for Mallotus philippinensis (113.28) and minimum for Cassia fistula (6.54). Similarly the IVI values in the riverian Khair-Sissu forest were maximum (218.02) for Dalbergia sissoo and minimum (16.46) for Sapium insigne. The species diversity (2.3796), beta diversity (2.9166) and equitability (14.6700) values were observed as maximum in moist deciduous miscellaneous forest, whereas the values for these parameters were minimum (0.8507, 1.3636 and 2.4915 respectively) in the riverian Khair-Sissu forest. However, the values for concentration of dominance was maximum (0.6827) in riverian Khair-Sissu forest and minimum (0.1071) in moist deciduous miscellaneous forest. The soils in both the forest types were observed as alluvial, coarse textured and almost neutral in reaction.