Mrs. Kumaratunga lives in a heavily guarded colonial mansion, Temple Trees, that sits amid palms and flaming bougainvillea on Galle Road.

We cast for them amid palms and coconuts, banana trees and wild orchids, at times watched by spider, howler, or whitefaced monkeys peeking at us from nearby trees.

And such a lurid, vulgar picture of ancient Egyptians entwined in each other's arms amid palms and pyramids.

Natives hide in underbrush amid palms and cactus.

The campus was an immaculate collection of modified Georgian buildings tucked amid palms, magnolias, crepe myrtles, and lobolly and long-leaf pines.

You enter the dining room and find yourself amid palms and assorted foliage swaying under the breeze of big room fans.

The night waylaid him, airless and starless, as he came to a well amid dying palms.

The main street is a wide winding sidewalk; the town's public telephone is housed in a toy -size blue telecommunications center set amid palms and outstretched pink and magenta bougainvillea.

Where monks sat in quiet contemplation, guests now seek sanctuary from the city's bustle amid lush palms and ivy.