192 Agricultur etc. — Personalnachrichten. 



by the ladies of that nationality. The economic question is fully 

 discussed in the paper and it will be advisable to abstract 

 this portion separately; for the systematic part see Bot. CbK 

 CI. p. 136. 



The wood is exported regularly from Mergui, the average 

 annual quantity between 1887 and 1903 being 28,295 Ibs. of the 

 value of £ 195 — 2 — 0. It was formerly supposed that Kalamet 

 wood might prove to be an undescribed species of Santalum, as it 

 generally resembles the wood of 6". albnm but differs in having 

 more prominent medullary rays. Efforts were made by Mr. J. S. 

 Gamble and Sir Dietrich Brandis to settle the identity of the 

 wood, and the latter has pointed out how it has been confused with 

 Toung Kalamet (Corclia fragrantissima Kurz) which possesses 

 a very different structure and scent. From fruiting specimens col- 

 lected in 1902 by Mr. Manson the plant was provisionally referred 

 to Sterciiliaceae and possibly to the genus Tarrietia. At the same 

 time it appeared probable that there were at least two species of 

 Kalamet; one with a dark brown wood the other of a golden 

 brown, both deliciously scented. In 1904 this surmise was con- 

 firmed by specimens, in leaf only, of two species of trees both 

 called Kalamet by the Burmese. The matter is further compli- 

 cated by the fact that in the Burmese market a wood of Malay an 

 origin is also sold as Kalamet, and there is as yet no evidence 

 to show whether it is the product of one of the Burmese species 

 er not. 



Flowering specimens havenow been obtained of one of the Burmese 

 species and this Sterciiliad proves to be closely allied to the African 

 genus Triplocliiton but with sufficiently marked differences to Warrant 

 it being placed in a separate genus Mansonia which together with 

 Triplocliiton now forms the new tribe Mansonieae. Mansonia Gagei 

 J. R. Drumm is thus established as the source of one kind of 

 Kalamet wood, but as noted above the question of the source of 

 the other two woods also known as Kalamet, one Burmese and 

 the other Mala van, remains unsolved. W. G. Freeman. 



Personalnachrichten. 



Habilitiert: Dr. 0. Forsch und Dr. F. Vierhapper für systema- 

 tische Botanik an d. Univ. Wien. -- Dr. V. Gräfe für chemische 

 Pflanzenphysiologie an d. Univ. Berlin. — Dr. Werner Magnus, bis- 

 heriger Privatdozent an d. landwirtsch. Hochschule in Berlin, für 

 Botanik daselbst. 



Corrigendum: Auf p. 80 ist statt Dr. A. W. Weber zu lesen 

 Dr. A. Weberbauer. 



Ausgegeben: 21. August 1906. 



Verlag von Gustav Fischer in Jena. 

 Druck von Gebrüder Gottbelft, Kgl. Hofbuchdrucker in Cassel. 



