The foremost of these are the Scaevolas[5] and Screw Pines[6], which grow luxuriantly within the actual wash of the tide, while behind them rises a dense growth of peculiar plants, each distinguished by the Singhalese by the prefix of "Moodu," to indicate its partiality for the sea.[7] [Footnote 1: _Aristolocia bracteata_.

On the sands to the north of Ceylon there is also the _A.

Indica_, which forms the food of the great red and white butterfly (_Papilio Hector_).] [Footnote 2: _Hedyotis umbellata_.

A very curious account of the Dutch policy In relation to Choya dye will be found in a paper _On the Vegetable Productions of Ceylon_, by W.C.ONDAATJIE, in the _Ceylon Calendar_ for 1853.

See also BERTOLACCI, B.iii.p.