506 
WRIGHT : FOLIAR PERIODICITY 
3.—Ceylon, India, Malaya, and China, &c.— contd. 
Leaf-fall. 
New 
i 
Leafless 
Phase. 1 
| 
Com¬ 
menced. 
Finished. 
Leaves 
appeared. 
Erythrina ovali- 
f olia, Roxb. ; 
Peradeniya. 
1902 
1903 
Feb. 4 
Feb. 
Mar. 28 
April 1 
Feb. 24 
Feb. 
— 
Eugenia oper- 
culata, Roxb.; 
Peradeniya. 
1905 
Jan. 9 
Feb. 
Feb. 
_ 
Litsea sebifera, 
Roxb.; Pera¬ 
deniya. 
1902 
1902-03 
1904-05 
Feb. 26 
Nov. 9 
Dec. 
April 3 
April 1 
April ^ 
Mar. 24 
Feb. 
Feb. 
— 
Sarcocephalus 
cordatus,Miq.: 
Peradeniya 
1904 
Feb. 1 
March 
March 
_ 
4.- 
-Ceylon, India, Java, China, 
and Japan. 
Leaf-fall. 
New 
Leafless 
Phase. 
Phyllanthus 
Emblica, L.; 
Peradeniya. 
1902 
1903 
1904 
Com¬ 
menced. 
Finished. 
Leaves 
appeared. 
Feb. 3 
Feb. 2 
Feb. 
Mar. 3 
Mar. 5 
Mar. 10 
Mar. 10 
Mar. 20 
Mar. 16 
6 days 
4 days 
5 days 
The flowers appear forming a compact inflorescence when 
the tree is leafless ; the leaves soon appear at the top of each 
inflorescence. 
