Download or read book A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon - Index to written by M. D. Dassanayake and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon, by Henry Trimen, published more than a hundred years, ago was in its time one of the most comprehensive and outstanding floras available for any tropical area. Updated and expanded first in 1931 by A.H.G. Alston and most recently under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, the Ceylon Department of Agriculture, and the University of Ceylon, the handbook now comprises 14 volumes, many of which are once again available through this publisher. This volume is a comprehensive index to those 14 volumes, with entries listed by scientific name, English name, Sinhala name and Tamil name.