murunga

Fresh scents of the domestics making my Dads lunch, the tall murunga tree outside mixed with the araliya, jasmine and incense my Ammi has lit in offering to the Buddha statue in our hall.

Kottu 2009

(Ornitrophe serrata); Moodu-murunga (Sophora tomentosa_,) &c. &c. Amongst these marine shrubs the Nil-picha (_Guettarda speciosca_), with its white and delightfully fragrant flowers, is a conspicuous object on some parts of the sea-shore between Colombo and Point-de-Galle.]

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836