BOTANY OF THE LACCADlVES. 465 



Akati ; Fleming ! Kiltan ; Fleming ! 



Littoral species common on sea-coasts of S. Africa, the Mascarene 

 Islands; India, Ceylon; the Malay Archipelago and Australia. 



AMPELIDEiE. 



27. Vitis quadrangularis Wall, Cat. n. 5992; Hook, f., 

 Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 645. Cissus quadrangularis, Roxb., Flor. Ind., 

 i., 407. 



Kalpeni ; Alcock ! 



East Africa ; India, Malaya ; common on the sea-shores of the 

 Andaman group, where it is unequivocally indigenous. Lawson 

 {Flor. Brit. Ind. 1. c.) states that the stems are eaten in curries in 

 Ceylon. He does not quote any authority, the statement is certainly 

 not derived from Thwaites, who says {Bmm PI. Zeylan., 62) that 

 the stems are used medicinally. The species is not cultivated in 

 Kalpeni; it is most probably a bird-introduced species. 



28. Vitis carnosa Wall., Cat. u. 6018; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. 

 Ind., i., 654. Cissus carnosa^ Roxb., Flor. Ind., i., 409. 



Kiltan; Alcoch! Fleming! 



India and Malay Peninsula ; probably a bird-introduced species. 

 Though both Dr. Alcock and Mr. Fleming found it growing 

 profusely, Mr. Hume did not meet with it ; perhaps, therefore, it is 

 a recent introduction, possibly during the interval between ]875 

 and 1889. 



SAPINDACEiE. 



29. Cardiospermum Halicacabum Linn., Sp. PI. 366; 

 Roxb., Flor. Ind., ii., 292 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 670. 



Ameni ; Hume ! Kalpeni ; Alcock ! 



A weed of road-sides and waste places, cosmopolitan in the 

 tropics. 



30. AUophylus Cobbe Blume, Rumphia, iii., 331 ; Hook, f., 

 Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 673. Omithofrope Cohhe Willd., Sp. PI, ii., 

 322 ; Roxb., Fl. Ind. ii., 268. Rhus Cohhe Linn., Sp. PI. 267. 



Minikoi ; Fleming ! 



A littoral or sub-littoral species distributed throughout S.-B. Asia 

 and N. Australia, but almost certainly a bird-introduced, not a 

 sea-introduced, species. 



