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THE Imperial Forestry Institute at Oxford has been issuing a series of check-lists of the forest trees and shrubs of the British Empire, under the editorship of Dr. J. Burtt Davy and Mr. A. C. Hoyle. The fourth of the series is entitled “Draft of First Description Cheek-List for Ceylon”. These monographs are chiefly designed for the use of forest officers. So far, although there has been a forestry department in Ceylon for more than half a century, all the forest officer lias had to consult is Trimen's “Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon”, consisting of six large tomes, published some thirty-fivo years ago, with a supplement by Alaton issued in 1931. The Check-List in question has been compiled from published records and herbarium material. Some 832 species of trees and shrubs are included. In addition, a list of exotic conifers introduced into Ceylon, comprising twenty-five species (genera, Callitris, Cupressus, Juniporus, Widdringtonia, Abies, Picea, Pinus, Pseudotsuga, Sequoia, Taxodium, Tsuga), is included in an appendix. There is also an indispensable list of vernacular names.
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Check-Lists of Forest Trees in Ceylon. Nature 144, 664 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144664a0
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