INDIAN FOREST RECORDS. 



Vol. IV ] 1912 [ Part IV 



ALBIZZIA LATHAMII, Bole, 8p . n. 



By R. S. HOLE, F.C.H., F.L.S, F.E.S., 



Botanist, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. 



Introductio 



In April 1911, specimens of an Albizzia were sent to Dehra Dun 

 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 Dehra Dun. 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 writer's 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 Wight's Southern 

 Indian specimens under tha 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, exclu- 

 sive 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. 



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