BOTANY OF THE LACCADIVES. 461 



PoLYGALEJi. 



5. Polygala erioptera DC, Prodr., i., 326; Hook, f., Flor. 

 Brit. lud., i., 203. 



Kadamuin ; Fleming ! The narrow-leaved form (P. VaJdiana DC.) 

 is alone reported. 



India, Burma, Beluchistau, Avabia, Africa. 



PORTULACE^. 



6. Portulaca oleracea Linn., Sp. PL 445 ; Eoxb., Fl. Ind., ii., 

 463 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 246. 



Minikoi ; Fleming ! Two very distinct forms are communicated : 

 one, the ordinary annual condition ; the other, a perennial state 

 with very large tuberous roots exactly like those of P. tuherosa, 

 Roxb., from which, however, it is at once distinguished by its 

 opposite flat leaves, and by the denser beard of white hairs on its 

 nodal appendages. 



A weed of cultivated ground and waste places, cosmopolitan in 

 the tropics. 



Gtjttiferj;. 



7. Calophyllum inophyUum Linn., Sp. PI. 513; Roxb., 

 Flor. Ind., ii., 606; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 273; Watt, Diet., 

 ii., 29. The Poon-Spar or Alexandrian Laurel. 



Ameai ; planted, Hume ! Kalpeni ; apparently indigenous, A Icock ! 

 Akati; planted, one tree only, Fleming! Minikoi; planted, but 

 also occurring as an indigenous tree in the coast-zone, Fleming ! 



Cultivated throughout India. Wild on the sea-coasts of the 

 Mascarene Islands; India, Ceylon, Andamans; Malaya, N. Australia 

 and Polynesia. 



MALVACE-2E. 



8. Sida humilis Willd., Sp. PI., iii., 744; Roxb., Flor. Ind., 

 iii., 171; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 322. 



Kadamum ; Hume ! Fleming ! Akati ; Fleming ! Minikoi ; 

 Fleming ! 



A field and road-side weed in tropical Asia, Africa and Amei-ica. 



9. Abutilon indicum G. Don : Mast, in Hook, f., Flor. Brit. 

 Ind., i., 326. 



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