Xo. 11. — 1858-9.] SCRIPTURE BOTANY OF CEYLON. 329 



Island, made and sold bracelets of these and other seeds 

 sufficient to build a small church, for which she liberally 

 gave the proceeds. 



Willow. 



After the Feast of Tabernacles, the children of Israel were 

 required to keep a feast of seven days, and on the first day 

 they were directed to take ''boughs of goodly trees, branches 

 of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of 

 the brook : (Lev. xxiii. 40.) and they were to rejoice before 

 the Lord their God seven days. Job, when talking of Behe- 

 moth, said tk The shady trees cover him with their shadow : 

 the willows of the brook compass him about." (Job xl. 22.) 



How very touchingly does the Psalmist describe the 

 feelings of the captive children of Israel, when it was de- 

 manded of them to sing in a strange land, one of the songs 

 of Zion, " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, 

 we wept, when Ave remembered Zion. We hanged our 

 harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." (Psalm 

 cxxxvii. 1, 2.) 



" And that which they have laid up, shall they carry 

 away to the brook of the willows." (Is. xv. 7.) 



And in another place Isaiah speaks of the Willows as fit 

 emblems for the children of godly parents. 



"And they shall spring up as among the grass as willows 

 by the water courses." (Is. xliv. 4.) 



There is no species of Willow indigenous to Ceylon, but 

 upwards of thirty years ago, the very species here referred 

 to, the Weeping Willow {Salix Babylonica,) was introduced, 

 and now there are growing in front of Mr. Darley's house, 

 plants of the same species, said to have been procured from 

 the famous tree which overhung the tomb of Napoleon in 

 the Island of St. Helena. Several now in Ceylon have 

 doubtless seen this tree, and others of great beauty, when 



