in Sri Lanka - Ministry of Environment

According to the plant records available in the Flora of Ceylon (Dassanayake and Fosberg(1980-2004), 43 woody plants endemic to the country grow in the dry land of Sri Lanka. Theseinclude 26 tree, 2 liana and 15 shrub species. Of these, 33 are also found from the wet zoneof the country but 10 species have been reported only in the dry land . However, 7 of the 10species are restricted to wet localities in the lowlands or in hill forests of the intermediate zonebut the other 3 species, i.e. Canthium puberulum, Diplodiscus verrucosus and Memecylonpetiolatum are recorded only from the dry zone. Some endemic species such as Derrisparviflora (Figure 7 ) produce magnificent inflorescences and thus have a potential ornamentalvalue. Point endemics are not common in the dry land of the country as in the wet zone. Threepoint endemic species, each known only from a single site