A medium sized tree belongs to the family Fabaceae . It is distributed through out the Eastern Ghats. It is an endemic and threatened species. The plant wood is highly prized for house posts and used chiefly for building purposes and the wood is ground and used for dying wool, cotton and leather and also for staining other woods. 'Santalin', is the colouring principle. The wood tonic used as diaphoretic and the wood paste is applied to inflammations. This plant specimen is displayed as Timber in the Systematic Botany Gallery under the South Indian timber show-case.

Rubus racemosus

     A straggling shrub belongs to the family Rosaceae. It is indigenous to India, distributed in the Southern Western Ghats,the Nilgiri and Palani hills at an altitude  of 1,880 metre. It is an endemic plant. It is kept as herbarium in the Systematic Botany Gallery.

Curcuma neilgherrensis

     It is an indigenous medicinal plant belonging to the family Zingiberaceae. It is an endemic species. It is a stemless herb with small rootstock distributed throughout in Western ghats. It is exhibited as herbarium in the Systematic Botany Gallery.

Hedychium venustum

     This is a perennial herb with white flowers. It belongs to the family Zingiberaceae. It is an endemic plant and distributed in Western Ghats, Konkan, Cochin, Malabar and the Nilgiris at 600-1500 metres ranges. It is kept as herbarium in the Systematic Botany Gallery. The genus is used for the identification of the species.