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Anderut. Lieut. Wood records two species of Gossypium as 

 cultivated; these are not grown in any of the other Laccadive Islands 

 proper; specimens of G. barbadese have, however, been sent from 

 Minikoi, and Mr. Fleming enumerates G. herhaceum as one of the 

 cultivated species in that island, Lieut. Wood also notes that Rice 

 is, or earlier in the present century was, grown to a small extent. 

 He also notes having seen the Orange as well as the Lime cultivated. 

 This no one else has reported, though Mr. Fleming reports the 

 Pomelo as well as the Lime from Minikoi. 



The " stately-looking tree with dark green foliage not unlike the 

 *' broad-leafed elm'Ms probably the Jack {Artocarpus integrifolia) ; 

 it has not, however, been met with in any of the other islands. 



One of the most noteworthy features of the Anderut flora is that 

 it is in this island only that any ferns appear to occur ; Dr. Alcock 

 has sent specimens of two species, Nepfirodium molle and 

 Nephrolepis cordifolia from here, though neither he nor Wr. Hume 

 have seen any ferns elsewhere in the Archipelago. 



South of Anderut, in Lon. 73° 35' E. and Lat. 10° 5' N. lies the 

 last true Laccadive atoll of Kalpeni. This island is situated on the 

 eastern side of its reef, on which there is besides, according to Wood's 

 table, a sandbank, Kalpeni Feti, unstocked with vegetation. Kalpeni 

 was visited by Dr. Alcock in "November, 1889. He speaks of it * 

 as " a typical coral island, in almost every respect like Anderut and 

 "Kiltan." 



His collection includes 19 weeds and escapes from cultivation, the 

 most interesting weeds being TJrena sinuata not recorded from any 

 other island, and Ammania baccifera and Polygonum barbatum, two 

 mai'sh-weeds not reported from any other island ; the most interest- 

 ing escape being Ocimum gratissimun, which, however, he mentions 

 as occurring in Biti-apar, and which he has also collected both in 

 Akati and in Minikoi. 



The coast species number 1], including Calophyllum inophyllum, 

 here not planted, and Clerodendron inerme, not reported from any 

 other island, not even from Minikoi. Yitis qiiadrangularis too, only 



* Alcock, in Hoskyn, " Administration Report of the Marine Survey of India," year 

 1889-90, p. 13. 



