IN CEYLON. 
501 
2.—Ceylon, India, and Malaya. 
Leaf-fall. 
New 
Leafless 
Com¬ 
menced. 
Finished. 
Leaves 
appeared. 
Phase 
Chick rassia 
tabularis, Juss. ; 
Peradeniya. 
Tree A. 
1902 
1903 
1904 
Feb. 3 
Jan. 22 
Feb. 
Mar. 3 
Feb. 26 
Mar. 5 
Mar. 7 
Mar. 3 
Mar. 10 
j 
3 days 
4 days 
4 days 
Other trees in the Peradeniya and Henaratgoda districts 
are leafless during part of February and usually for a longer 
period than the above. In the Bibile district the leafless 
period was noticed in May and June, 1901. The flowers 
appear before the new leaves when the tree is bare. 
2.— Ceylon, India , and Malaya . 
Erythrina 
indica, Lam.; 
Peradeniya. 
1901- 02 
1902- 03 
1903- 04 
1904- 05 
Leaf-fall. 
New 
Leaves 
produced. 
Leafless 
Phase. 
Com¬ 
menced. 
Finished. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Dec. 
Dec. 
Feb. 
Feb. 18 
Feb. 7 
March 
Mar. 23 
Mar. 27 
21 days 
36 days 
Most trees drop their leaves in December, January, and 
February, and red flowers appear during the last month and 
through March, while the trees are more or less leafless. 
The leaves appear from the middle of March to the end of 
April. 
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