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GOODENOVIE^. 



87. Scaevola Koenigii Vatl, Symb., iii., 36; Hook, f., Flor. 

 Brit. Ind., iii., 421. 8. Taccada Roxh., Horfc. Beng. 15; Flor. Iud.,i,, 

 527. Lobelia Taccada Gaertn.j Fruob., i., 11 9^ t. 25. Lobelia fru- 

 tescens Linn., Fl. Zeyl. 148. 



Bitrapar; very abundant, Hume! Fleming I Kadamum; abund- 

 ant on the sliore^ Fleming! Kiltan; in a dense hedge along the 

 entire lagoon face of the island, ifMme, Alcock f Fleming/ Akati ; 

 Fleming ! Minikoi ; Fleming ! 



A littoral species common on the shores of S.-E. Asia, N. Austra- 

 lia and Polynesia ; also in the Masoarene Islands and Africa. 



PLUMBAGlNEiE. 



88. Plumbago zeylanica Linn., Sp. PL 151; Eosb., Flor, 

 Ind., i., 462; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iii., 480. 



Ameni ; perhaps an escape from cultivation, Hume! 

 Cultivated throughout the tropics of the old worlds readily escap- 

 ing and spreading : wild in Southern Asia. 



Apocyneje. 



89. Ochrosia borbonica Gmel., Syst. Yeg. 439 ; Hook, f., Flor. 

 Brit. Ind., iii., 638. 



Minikoi ; Fleming ! 



A littoral species distributed from the Masoarene Islands to 

 Ceylon, the Andamans, Nicobars and Malaya; not reported from 

 Indian coasts. 



AsCLEPIADEiE. 



90. Calotropis gigantea R. Br. in Ait., Hort. Kew. (ed. ii.), ii., 

 78; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 17 ; Watt, Diet., ii., U. Ascle- 

 pias gigantea Willd., Sp. PL, i., 1264 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., ii., 30. 

 The Mudar. 



Kadamum ; Htime! very common in the centre of the island near 

 the huts, Flem.ing ! 



A weedy shrub of waysides and waste places throughout South- 

 Eastern Asia. It is remai-kable that it should be present only in one 

 of the islands, and that it should occur only in the neighbourhood of 

 the people's dwellings; these facts aj)pear to indicate that the intro- 

 duction of the plant has been here due to human agency, and haSj 



