294 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



Systematic List op Laccadive Plants. 



Subjoined is given an enlarged edition of the Laccadive list 

 already published by the writer.* This new list includes, besides 

 the species recorded in the former one, all those contained in the 

 collections made during the two visits paid by the Investigator, subse- 

 quently to its publication and all those mentioned by Lieutenant 

 Wood and Mr. Robinson in their accounts of the Ai-chipelago. As a 

 complete set of the specimens collected by Mr. Hume, Dr, Alcock 

 and Mr. Fleming is preserved in the Calcutta Herbarium, the writer 

 has been in a position to authenticate the whole of their species ; 

 these are indicated in the list by an (!). Those names to which no 

 mark of verification is appended belong to the species mentioned by 

 Lieutetiant Wood and Mr. Robinson, mentioned but not collected 

 by Mr. Hume, or enumerated in Mr. Fleming^s list of cultivated 

 plants, without specimens having been sent. In the preparation of the 

 list, the writer has received much assistance from Dr. G, King, 

 P.E.S.; Mr. W. B. Hemsley, h'.r.s., who has kindly verified some 

 dubious species at Kew ; Mr. J. F. Duthie, f.l.s., who kindly 

 named the grasses ; Mr. G. Massee, e.l.s., who equally kindly 

 named the Lichens and Fungi, and Mr. G. R. M. Murray, f.l.s., 

 who dndly named an Ascothamnion ( A. intricatum ) collected by 

 Dr. Alcock in the lagoon at Kadamum, and who has, from these 

 specimens, been enabled for the first time to state definitely that 

 Ascothamnion is not a vegetable at all, but is the same thing as 

 Zoolotryon pellucidum of Bhrenb., an animal. He wishes to 

 express his great obligation to all these gentlemen, and especially 

 to his friend. Dr. A. Alcock, of the Indian Marine Survey, for the 

 enthusiasm with which he has taken up the subject: of the Laccadive 

 Flora and for the thoroughness with which he and his assistant 

 Mr. J. Fleming, Apothecary on board H. M. I. M. Investigator^ 

 have made the collections on which this list is mainly based. 

 To Captain Hoskyn,t Commander of the Investigator, who has 



* " Scientific Memoirs by Medical Officers of tlae Army of India," part V. 



t The sad death of this talented Officer, which has occurred since the last of these 

 collections was made, has removed from the Naval Service one of its most brilliant 

 stirveyors. The event is one to be deplored not alone by his own Service, and not only 



