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remark, as if he too had found it in a 'wild' state : also Ixora 

 Bandhuca, which was common at the time of Mr. Hume's visit, but 

 which Dr. Alcock does not appear to have met with, Mr. Fleming's 

 list of cultivated plants includes Sesbania grandiflora, with the 

 Pepper- vine it is grown to support ; the Papaya ; the Cape Goose- 

 berry {Physalis peruviana, also reported by Mr. Hume from, the 

 adjacent island of Ameni); the Castor-oil plant; the Banyan (of 

 which four examples occur, planted near some deserted huts) ; the 

 Plantain (of which four were seen in the neighbourhood of the Ban- 

 yans). Mr. Fleming does not report lacca pinnatifida, though pro- 

 bably this, as iu the other islands, is the Taro that is cultivated — 

 the other Taro {Colocasia antiguorum) he reports as present here, 

 as it is in all the other islands, but, as in these, only in a 'wild' 

 condition. 



The littoral species reported from Kadamum are 19 in number. 

 These include Thespesia populnea, which, planted in some of the 

 islands, occurs here as an undoubtedly indigenous, sea-introduced tree, 

 and Giiettarda speciosa, occurring in large clumps, not recorded from 

 any other member of the group. Scaevola Koenigii is very abundant 

 all round the coast, as is the Screw-pine, but Ipomoea hiloba, very 

 abundant on some of the islands, e.g., in Bitrapar, where it covers the 

 whole beach , and in Akati, where it also extends into the interior of the 

 island, is here confined to the shore, and is not very common even 

 there. Wedelia scandens is one of the most common plants, and is 

 spread all over the interior as well as round the coast ; the same is 

 true of Cassytha filiformis, which, in some parts, loads the scrubb}'- 

 undergrowth. Two other sea-coast species that here extend inland 

 from the shore, and form a large part of the shrubby interior jungle, 

 are Morinda hracteata and Premna integrifolia. In strong contrast 

 with Bangaro, where Gaesalpinia Bonducella is so common as to 

 form the basis of the jungle, it is noted in the Inmstigator 

 collections that only one plant of this species was met with 

 in Kadamum. 



Truly inland species that combine with Pandanus, Premna, and 

 Morinda to form the shrubby part of the jungle are Flacourtia 

 sepiaria, Pavetta indica, and Pleurostijlia Wiglitii. All these are 

 noted as " very common throughout the island." The last-named 



