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ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE TREES 



up water in the receptacles formed by the sheathing bases of the 

 leaf-stalks, being thus supposed to be of service to travellers in 

 deserts. The supposition, however, is rather discounted by the 

 fact that the tree does not naturally grow in districts where water 

 is scarce, and thrives only in regions where the rainfall is more 

 or less abundant. Moreover, during the dry w r eather the water 

 collected in the leaf-bases referred to becomes putrid and infested 



THE PALM DRIVE, PEKADEXIYA GARDENS. 



with the larvae of mosquitoes and other insects. Propagated 

 by seed or root-suckers. 



Schinus. See Foliage Trees for Up-country. 



Sandoricum indicum. Meliaceae. " Santol." A tall erect 

 quick-growing tree, with handsome pinnate leaves, native of 

 Malaya, introduced into Ceylon in 1852. (See Tropical Fruits). 



