Annals Of The Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta

This paper provides descriptions and figures of the Asiatic Dalbergias. The genus Dalbergia is economically important; it includes not a few trees which yield esteemed timbers. It is also taxonomically difficult; generally, since it does not lend itself readily to natural subdivision and in detail, because its species are hard to delimit. Some of the difficulties are accidental, occasionally perhaps subjective; many however are real. The economic impotance of the genus dalbergia redering it desirable to put an end to the doubts that prevailed as to the identity and distribution of its Asiatic species, a study has been undertaken of the material preserved in a number of important colletion.