A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon: Containing Descriptions of all the Species of Flowering Plants Indigenous to the Island, and Notes on Their Histor

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A comprehensive guide to the flora of Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. Written by Joseph Dalton Hooker, one of the most important botanists of the 19th century, this book provides detailed descriptions of all the species of flowering plants on the island, along with notes on their distribution, history, and uses. The accompanying atlas of plates contains illustrations of some of the island's most interesting species.