The Indian Forest Records, Vol. 4

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Excerpt from The Indian Forest Records, Vol. 4: On Albizzia Lathamii In April 1911, specimens of an Albizzia were sent to DehraDun for identification (from the Tinnevelly District of Madras) by Mr. H.A. Latham, Deputy Conservator of Forests. The specimens did not agree with any of the species belonging to the genus, regarding which literature or herbarium material was available at DehraDun. On specimens being sent to Kew, Colonel Prain, with reference to them, kindly informed the writer that they have not been matched with any of the material in Herb. Kew. At the writers request, Major Gage very kindly compared specimens of this tree with the material in the Calcutta Herbarium and discovered that the plant was there represented by two sheets of the Kew distribution(1866-67) of Wights Southern Indian specimens under the No. 898. Both these sheets have been named in manuscript Albizzia oiloratissima, Benth. One of these sheets is a mixture of the true A. odorafissimt and the present plant, the other sheet is this plant entirely. So far as the writer can discover, 94 species appear to have been described in the genus Albizzia up to date, exclusive of synonyms and accepting the genus as defined in the Genera Plantarum of Bentham and Hooker (Vol. I, 1865) and more recently by Taubert in Engler and Prantl's Pflanzenfnmilien (Iii.3. 1891).Descriptions of all of these have been carefully checked and it is believed that the present plant is undoubtedly a new and distinct species. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.