376 HANDBOOK TO THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 
notes on local uses and names, even when information as to these is 
forthcoming. 
Dr. Trimen’s aim is not so much the convenience of the 
herbarium botanist as ‘to enable observers in Ceylon to ascertain 
of its bulk. The work is announced as forming two volume 
of two parts each, with a hundred quarto plates. These latter can 
would have rendered it much easier for use in the field. On the 
present scale, two parts will make a somewhat unwieldy volume, 
while four separate instalments are inconvenient to carry about. 
Perhaps a thin-paper issue may be contemplated for this purpose ; 
stion. 
commenced more than fifty years ago, and has been steadily con- 
s. It now numbers several 
