A HAND-BOOK 



TO THE 



FLORA OF CEYLON 



CONTAINING 



DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE SPECIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS 



INDIGENOUS TO THE ISLAND, 



AND 



NOTES ON THEIR HISTORY, DISTRIBUTION, AND USES. 



BY 



HENRY TRIMEN, M.B. (Lond.), F.R.S. 



DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, CEYLON. 



CONTINUED BY 



SIR J. D. HOOKER, G.C.S.I., C.B., RRS. 



mitb an atlas of BMates 



ILLUSTRATING SOME OF THE MORE INTERESTING SPECIES. 



Part IV. 

 EUPHORBIACE^— NAIADES. 



WITH PLATES LXXVI—C. 



UBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



GARDEN 



PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON. 



LONDON : 



DULAU & CO., 11 SoHo Square, W. 

 1898. 



