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When the overdue Professor Joachim Illies urged in 1980 that I edit a quantity of the Monographiae Biologicae on Sri Lanka, i used to be happy to simply accept the problem. even if I had spent merely six years of my learn and educating profession in Sri Lanka, I had made own touch or corresponded with many scientists who had labored in, nonetheless paintings in, or who've studied fabric from Sri Lanka. the current dwelling house of the authors of the chapters during this quantity indicates the broad geographic unfold of curiosity in Sri Lanka, and shows additionally the dispersion of Sri Lankan scientists like myself. Sri Lanka has had a comparatively lengthy heritage of indigenous medical examine within the common sciences. From the early paintings of Kelaart (1852, Prodromous Fauna Zeylanicae, Ceylon executive. Press, 250 pp.) to the current time, there was a kind of sustained study attempt within the usual sciences. The Colombo Museum, which celebrated its centenary just a couple of years in the past, and the realm well-known Peradeniya Botanical Gardens, served as repositories and bases for persisted learn at the fauna and vegetation. there are many land marks in those studies.

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It contains montane tree species stunted to a metre or less in height and forming a closely entangled, waist high, virtually impenetrable mass, with patches of grass in which are found flowering shrubs like Osbeckia walkeri and Heydotis spp. g. Land's End on H orton Plains. The parallel ridges of the eastern part of the Massif (Zone lIb) are covered mostly by montane grassland. According to de Rosayro (1958) some of this grassland is abandoned coffee land, but a fair proportion is due to the coincidence of surface slope with dip of bedrock.

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