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Kadamum ; interspersed with the patches of wild indigo, Hume / 

 Anderut, perhaps cultivated, Alcock. Kalpeni; at edges of patches 

 of cultivatiou and probably planted, Alcock f Minikoi ; Fleming ! 



This form of J. coccinea is apparently a native of Southern 

 India. It is common in native gardens throughout India and 

 Ceylon : the bark of the root possesses valuable anti dysenteric 

 properties. 



75. Pavetta indica Linn., Sp. PI. 110; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. 

 Ind., iii., 150. Ixora paniculata Lamk., Eacyc. Meth., iii., 344. 

 Ixora Pavetta Roxb., Flor. Ind,, i., 385. 



Kadamum ; plentiful inshore, Fleming ! 



South- Eastern Asia; throughout India and Indo-China, and 

 extending from S. China to N. Australia. 



76. MorindacitrifoliaLinn., Hook.f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iii., 155. 

 VAR. hracteata Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind,, iii., 156, M. hracteata 



Roxb., Hort. Beng. 15; Flor. Ind., i,, 544. 



Bangaro; Hume! Kalpeni; certainly wild, Alcock! Kiltan; 

 Fleming ! Akati ; Fleming ! Kadamum ; Fleming ! Minikoi ; extre- 

 mely plentiful throughout the island, Fleming ! 



A purely littoral plant, plentiful on all the Indian, Indo-Chinese, 

 Andamans and Nicobars coasts visited by the writer. Here, as else- 

 where, in the region where the plant occurs, it is truly wild, and has 

 doubtless been introduced by the sea; it appears to be equally 

 common also on the coasts of the Seychelle islands. This form, which 

 it may be perhaps more convenient to consider, with Roxburgh, a 

 species apart from M. citrifolia, is never cultivated in India except 

 {e.g.i in the Calcutta Botanic Garden) as a curiosity; in Ceylon, 

 according to Thwaites, it is both wild and cultivated, and from Mr. 

 Fleming's note this would seem to be the case in Minikoi. In 

 Bangaro it must of necessity be just as wild as it is in the Andamans 

 and Nicobars where, even in uninhabited islands, it is not merely, 

 as Kurz has said, '''not infrequent," but is in reality one of the 

 chief components of the beach-forest undergrowth behind the 

 sea-fence of Pandanus bushes ; sometimes it is common farther 

 inshore. 



This variety — or species — is confined to India, Indo-China and 

 Malaya, not reaching Polynesia or Australia. 



