CEYLON BOTANIC CARDENS. 
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of Peninsular India ; the mean annual temperature is over 
80°, and the rainfall is chiefly in the last three months of the 
year. Out of a total mean rainfall of 54 inches, 29 fall in 
these months. In 1886 another branch garden of 11 acres 
was opened at Badulla, the capital of the Province of Uva, at 
an elevation of 2,220 feet. Here, on the eastern side of the 
main mountain mass of the Island, the climate has a differ- 
ent periodicity, and is also somewhat drier, than on the 
western side. The mean rainfall is 79 inches, chiefly falling 
in the north-east monsoon, and the “ dry ” season is from 
July to September, instead of from January to March. The 
flowering and fruiting seasons of many of the plants differ 
correspondingly. The mean temperature of the locality is 73°. 
In 1883 the Director’s bungalow in the centre of the 
garden was transformed into a Museum, and gradually 
stocked with a good collection of vegetable products and 
specimens, chiefly economic. The Director’s residence was 
transferred to the “ Assistant Director’s house, ” just vacated 
by Mr. Ward. 
Coffee was now failing fast, and Trimen devoted much 
energy and enthusiasm to the introduction and spread of new 
industries, especially cinchona, now becoming the staple of 
the Colony, tea, cacao, and indiarubber, together with Liberian 
coffee, and many others. He also devoted himself to the 
preparation of a complete and thorough Flora of Ceylon, the 
publication of which was at length begun in 1893. Unfortu- 
nately he did not live to complete this work, but the last two 
volumes of the five have been finished by the veteran Sir 
J. D. Hooker, the concluding volume appearing in 1900. 
Trimen also published, besides many purely scientific 
papers, a Catalogue of the Plants growing in the Gardens, and 
a Hand-Guide to Peradeniya Garden, of which four editions 
appeared before his retirement. A fifth, re-written, appeared 
in 1898. 
About 1886 the garden began to attract visiting botanists in 
appreciable numbers, and in 1888 a small room in the Museum, 
