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young specimen has been included. To get some idea of the 

 extent to which this factor affects the results, it would be 

 necessary to make a note of the age of each tree, at least so 

 far as to divide the trees observed into younger and older. It 

 would also be desirable to make an estimate of the number 

 of individuals of each species showing new growth at each 

 record, so as to show whether the record is one of general 

 growth for the species or confined to a few isolated trees. This 

 could not, as a rule, be done in the limited time devoted to 

 these records, but in spite of this the following table shows 

 some broad results : — 



Name. 



Mangifera indica 

 Garcinia xanthocarpa 

 Mesua ferrea 



Cinnamomum zeylanic-um 

 Sterculia Thwaitesii 

 Mischodon zeylanicus 

 Vateria aciimiiiatH 

 Doona niacrophylla 

 Theobroma Cacao 



General 



Colour 



of Young 



Foliage. 



Brown 



Light brown 



Light red 



Pink 



Red 



Brownish-red 



Dark red 



Red 



Red 



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I 



+ 1 + 



+ 



It will be noted how the growing period of these species, 

 many of them indigenous, coincides with the two drier periods. 

 The greater number, of them have their chief growing season in 

 February in the midst of the longer dry period. The other 

 chief time for growth among these species is September, the 

 August observations, being made during the last week in 

 August, may be bracketed with those of September. In the 

 cases where an attempt was made to estimate the relative 

 prevalence of new growth in each of the months recorded, the 

 February growth was most abundant. 



