BOTANY OF THE LACCADIVES. 481 



Tropical Africa; S.-E. Asia; Australia. Here, as on tlie shores 

 of the Andarnans and Nicobars^ a purely littoral species; it occurs, 

 however, far inland (as in Assam, &c.) as well. 



100. Evolvulus alsinoides Linn., Sp. PI. (ed. ii.) 302; Eoxb., 

 Flor. Ind., ii., 105 ; Hook. f.,Flcr. Brit. Ind., iv., 200. E. Ihiifnlms 

 Linn., Sp. PI. (ed. ii.) 392. E. angudif alius Roxb., Flor. Ind. 

 (ed. Carey & Wall.), ii., 107. Gonvolvulus alsinoides Linn., Sp. PI. 

 lo/. 



Kadamum ; Fleming / 



A weed of dry places in all tropical and sub-tropical countries. 



SOLANAC^. 



101. Solanum torvum Swartz, Prodr. 47; Hook f., Flor. 

 Brit. Ind., iv., 234. 8. dramonifolium Roxb., Flor. Ind., i., 572^ 

 nee Jacq, 



Minikoi ; Fleming ! 



A shrubby weed of waste places in South-Eastern Asia and 

 tropical America. 



102. Physalis minima Linn., Sp. PI. 183 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., i., 

 563; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 233. 



VAR. indica Lamk., Encyc. Meth., ii., 102; Clarke in Hook. 

 f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 238. Nicandra indica Roem. & 

 Schult., Syst., iv., 682. 

 Bangaro ; Hume/ Anderut ; Alcoch I Kadamum; Fleming! 

 Kiltan ; Fleming ! Minikoi; Fleming ! 



A cosmopolitan weed of waste places and fields; also in 

 Bangaro and Kadamum in this group, as on the Andaman coasts, 

 a distinctly littoral species : the probabilities of introduction by 

 fruit-eating birds or by the sea are almost evenly balanced. 



103. Physalis peruviana Linn., Sp. PL (ed. ii.), app. 1670; 

 Roxb., Flor. Ind., i., 562 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 238. The 

 Winter-cherry or Cape Gooseberry. 



Ameni ; cultivated, Hume. 



Native of America, much cultivated in the Eastern Hemisphere. 

 The specimens from Bangdro attril)uted to this species in the former 

 list are in reality P. minima var. indica ; Mr. Hume may, 

 however, be right in saying that the Winter-cherry is cultivated in 

 Ameni. 



