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rings ; and a different scent, resembling if anything that of the 
Bog-Myrtle (Myrica Gale, Linn.) of,Europe*. Mr. Gamble 
urged his correspondent to procure botanical specimens in order 
to enable the name of the tree to be determined. 
Meanwhile the subject was taken up by Sir D. Brandis ina 
letter f in which he described his own experience of Kalamet ; 
explained how it had, quite erroneously, been confused with 
Toungkalamet (Cordia fragrantissima, Kurz), a wood of different 
structure and with a different scent; and stated that he had 
recently received a small piece of wood from a Burmese friend, 
and had previously obtained specimens from Mr. J. W. Oliver, 
when that officer was Conservator of Forests in Upper Burma. 
Sir Dietrich was also anxious to clear up the identity of the tree, 
and asked Burmese forest officers to procure him botanical 
specimens. 
In 1903, Mr. Manson at length succeeded in obtaining a 
supply of specimens of Kalamet and despatched examples to 
Sir D. Brandis, to Mr. Gamble, and to the Calcutta Herbarium. 
The specimens sent to Calcutta, which were in fruit only, were 
examined by Captain Gage, Curator of the Herbarium, who 
suggested the possibility, having regard to the structure of 
the fruit, that the species to which they belonged, which was 
obviously an undescribed one, might be referable to the 
Sterculiaceous genus Zarrietia. In communicating this opinion 
to Mr. Manson, the writer explained that in the absence of 
flowers an absolutely certain identification was impossible, and 
suggested that an attempt should be made to procure the 
material necessary to clear up the doubt. 
This request, as Mr. Manson has explained in letters to Sir 
D. Brandis and Mr. Gamble, was one with which it was not 
easy to comply. The Kalamet forests are on the hills on the 
Siamese frontier more than a hundred miles above the old town 
of Tenasserim, and for the last forty miles of the journey there 
are no villages. Moreover, after several attempts to obtain 
specimens had failed, there seemed reason to believe that the 
flowering period of Kalamet is between the middle of March and 
the middle of April, precisely when, owing to the river being low, 
the journey is most difficult and tedious. 
* Manual of Indian Timbers, ed. 2, p. 588. 
t Indian Forester, xxvii. p. 516 (October 1901). 
