HOOKER'S 
JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
KEW GARDEN MISCELLANY. 
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AUS PUPA IP IS A 
Remarks on the Flora of the Nicobar Islands. Translated from Com- 
MODORE STEEN BrLLE's ‘ BERETNING OM CoRVETTEN GALATHEA'S 
REISE OMKRING JORDEN,’ 1845, 46, 47. (Narrative of the 
Voyage round the World of the Corvette Galathea.) Vol.I. Copen- 
hagen, 1849. 8vo. Translated from the Danish by N. WALLICH, 
M. et Ph. D., ERS: V.P.L.S.* 
It has been usual to include the Nicobar Islands under the Scitamineous 
Kingdom of Schouw (the Indian, or Roxburgh's), comprising the two 
grand Indian peninsulas, Ceylon, the Maldives, the Laccadives, and the 
Andamans. But since scarcely more than the following plants of these 
islands were known at the time,namely, Boerhavia glutinosa, Vahl; Scirpus te 
subulatus, Vahl; Cyperus cephalotes, Vahl; Pandanus Mellori Roxb., 
or Nicobar bread-fruit (Alex. Moon's * View of the Plants of Ceylon’); 
Davallia heterophylla, Willd., and Lindsea tenera, Dryand. (Trans. Linn. — 
Soc., vol. iii. p. 42); it must have been the position of the islands between — 
two continents which determined the point. The annexed list of the - 
genera which occur on the Nicobars will demonstrate that this view has 
* I have made this translation from a corrected copy of the Narrative, communi- 
cated to me by its distinguished author, who informs me that Mr. Didrichsen, 
Assistant-Surgeon on board the corvette, has drawn up this botanical part. It was —— 
not to be expected that a sojourn of only two months, during the hot and dry season 
of B sii uit afford very extensive materials for a Nicobar Flora ; nevertheless, jo 
zeal and industry have done all that was possible, and we have to thank them for - 
much valuable and interesting information contained in the following pages.—N. W. —— 
VOL. II. B 
