Tas. 7392. 
TALAUMA Hopesont. 
Native of the Hastern Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. MaGnouiacea.—Tribe MaGnouiea. 
Genus Tatauma, Juss.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 18.) 
Tatauma Hodgsoni; arbor 50-60-pedalis, foliis amplis obovato-oblongis 
obtusis v. cuspidatis marginibus subsinuatis supra creberrime reticulatis 
subtus glaucis, petiolo bipollicari, floribus amplis solitaris terminalibus, 
pedunculo crasso 1—-2-annulato, alabastro ovoideo, bracteis caducis, sepalis 
3-5-obovato-oblongis obtusis extus late cceruleo-purpurascentibus, petalis 
ad 6 sepalis consimilibus albis fructu magno ovoideo, carpellis subtetra- . 
gonis acute rostratis, rachi profunde excavato foveolis rotundato- 
quadratis. 
T. Hodgsoni, Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Indica, p. 75, et in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. 
p. 40. Hook. f. Iilustr. Himal, Pl. t.6, Gamble, List of Trees of Dar- 
jeeling, p. 3, & Manual of Indian Timbers, p. 5. 
Talauma Hodgsoni is one of the noblest of the flowering 
forest trees of the Himalaya, a country which, considering 
its narrow area, contains perhaps more handsome magno- 
haceous trees than does any other of equal dimensions in 
India, if not of the world. Its forests produce Magnolia 
Campbellii, Hf. & T. (Tab. 6793), globosa, Hf. & T.; ptero- 
carpa, Roxb., Manglietia insignis, BL. ; Michelia Catheartii, © 
Hf. & T., M. Champaca, Linn., M. excelsa, Bl., M. lanu- 
ginosa, Wall. (Tab. 6179) and M. Kisopa, Ham. Of these 
the prince is, no doubt, Magnolia Campbellii, and next to it 
is Talawuma Hodgsoni, of which I was the fortunate dis- 
coverer in 1848, when I found it forming forests in the 
valleys of Sikkim at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 ft., and 
it was subsequently gathered by Dr. Thomson and myself 
in the Khasia hills. 
As a timber tree 7’. Hodgsoni is not of muchuse. Mr. 
Gamble, in his valuable “‘ Trees, Shrubs, and large Climbers 
of the Darjeeling District,” says of the wood, that it is 
white, but in very old trees quite black, especially the 
wood of the roots; as also that it is used for the handles 
of weapons and tools, and for other small-wood purposes. 
Its specific name commemorates the services to the 
Literature, Arts, and Sciences of India of my late dis- 
JaNUARY Ist, 1895. A 
