Botanical Name - Albizzia odoratissima

----- A. odoratissima, Benth.; F.B.I. II-299. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 271. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 304. Vern. Siris, Sirsa, Hind. Telsu, Chinduku, Chinta-elagu, Tel. Ram-Saras, Mar.

----- A large deciduous tree, with dark-green foliage. Bark grey, with irregular cracks and darkar patches, granular, Leaflets 10-25 pairs, 3/4-1 in. long, oblong, obtuse, unequalsided, somewhat falcate, pale, glabrous or pubescent beneath; pinnae 3-8 pairs. Flower-heads pale-yellow, fragrant in compact corymbose arrange in large terminal panicles. Corolla and Calyx densely strigose with short hairs, the former campanulate, 5 times longer than the calys. Pods 6-8 in. long, 1 in. broad, dehiscent, tomentose when young, nearly glabrous when ripe.

----- A handsomer tree than A. Lebbek, and less common, but more of a forest tree. It grows rapidly and attains a good size, yielding logs from 15-18 ft long and 3 ft. in girth. Wood hard; sapwood large, white; heartwood dark-brown with darker streaks. It seasons well, is easily worked up and takes a good polish; is just as good a wood and is put to the same uses as that of A. Lebbek and is said to be equal in strength to Teak. Weitht about 53 lbs. per c. ft. Never quite leafless; foliage renewed in the cold season; Flowers April to June. This tree is a moderate light demander and is not exacting as regards soil, though on poor soils it is somewhat stunted. Root system is superficial and develops root suckers. It coppius well.