INDIAN FOREST RECORDS. 
Vol. IV ] 
1912 
[ Part IV 
ALBIZZIA LATHAMII, Hole , sp. n. 
By R. S. HOLE, F.C.H., F.L.S., F.E.S., 
Botanist, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. 
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 the No. 898. Both these sheets have been 
named in manuscript Albizzia ocloratissima , Benth. One of these sheets 
is a mixture of the true A. odoratissima 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 Pflanzen fa milieu (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. 
Introduction. 
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