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THE botanical gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon, are celebrated for their vegetation splendour, so that a list of beautiful flowering trees recommended by the curator, Mr. H. F. Macmillan, will appeal to many outside the range of those for whom the Circular (vol. iv., No. 20) of the gardens is immediately intended. In the author's opinion, the leguminous tree Amherstia nobilis is not to be excelled, although Lagerstroemia flos-reginae passes under the name of “pride of India,” and Poinciana regia is the famous “flame-tree.” The Amherstia was introduced to Ceylon from Burma, and it is remarkable how many of the plants mentioned have been imported from the tropics of the New and Old World. Gliricidia maculata is a recent introduction from the West Indies; Solatium macranthum, the “potato-tree” from Brazil, is noteworthy as the only species of the order that grows to the size of a tree.
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Trees and Forests . Nature 84, 55–56 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084055a0
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