88 Keeble . — The Hanging Foliage of 
possess means of such accurate adjustment to light, are 
naturally exposed. 
It is noteworthy that this phenomenon of hanging branches 
occurs in small trees. Browne a grandiceps, Brownea coccinea , 
and another species, Brownea hybrida , grow well in the gardens. 
The tallest of these is less than forty feet in height ; the 
others are much less. The genus Brownea is described in 
the Treasury of Botany 1 as 6 a genus of small evergreen 
trees .... peculiar to Venezuela, New Granada. . . .’ 
Humboldtia laurifolia , often more a shrub than a tree, is thus 
described by Trimem: ‘ A small tree or shrub with numerous 
horizontally-spreading or rather drooping branches 2 .’ Cyno- 
metra ramiflora is stated by the same authority to be ‘a small, 
moderately sized, much branched tree V 
Saraca ( Jonesia ) indie a > 6 rather small, much branched, spread- 
ing tree 4 ’ ; and of the genus jfo?iesia the Treasury of Botany 
says, ‘ They are large shrubs or trees of twenty to forty feet in 
height 5 .’ Kurz, in his Flora of British Burmah, gives the 
height of Amherstia nobilis as forty feet 6 . 
The only apparent exception seems to be Calophyllum 
bracteatum , a tree peculiar to Ceylon, and rare. Of it Trimen 
writes ‘ a large tree 7 .’ I did not see a specimen of this tree — 
a member of the order Guttiferae. Much interest attaches to 
it in belonging to so widely separated an order from that 
(Caesalpinieae) to which most if not all other trees with 
hanging foliage belong. Whether this species grows to the 
height reached by other members of the genus, 80 to ioo 
feet, cannot be stated. At present it must be looked upon 
as an exception to the otherwise general rule, that the trees 
whose young branches and leaves hang down are small and 
spreading. 
1 Treasury of Botany, Vol. I, p. 173. 
2 Dr. H. Trimen, Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon, pp. 2, 115. 
3 Ibid., Part I, p. 102. 
4 Ibid., Part II, pp. m, 112. 
5 Loc. cit. , Part I, p. 633. 
G Kurz, Forest Flora of British Burmah, Vol. i, p. 41 1. 
7 Loc. cit., Part I, p. 102. 
