BOTANY OF THE LACCADIVES. 485 



ititenfcioually introduced. As with Lijjjna nodifiova, Roxburgh 

 includes this in the Hortus Bengalensis, but excludes it from the 

 Flora Indtca. 



1 1 7. Premna integrifolia Linn., Mantiss. 252 ; Hook, f., Flor. 

 Brit. Ind., iv^. 574. P. serratifolia Linu., Mantiss. 253. P. spinosa 

 Roxb., Flor, Ind., iii., 77. 



Kadamum ,• "forming thickets/' Hume ! "■ very common ; a little 

 way inshore," Fleming! Kalpeui; on the shore, Alcock! Minikoi; 

 coast zone, Fleming ! 



A littoral and sub-littoral species, very abundant on Indian, Indo- 

 Chinese, Andamans, Nicobars and Malay Coasts. 



118. Clerodendron inerme Gaertn., Fruct., i., 271, t. 57, f. ] ; 

 Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii., 58; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 589. 



Kalpeni ; plentiful on the coast, Alcoch ! 



A littoral species abundant on Indian, Ceylon, Andamans and 

 Indo-Chinese coasts. 



Labiate. 



119. Ocimum gratissimum Linn., Sp. PI. 1197; Roxb., Flor. 

 Ind,, iii., 17 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 608. 



Bitrapar ; growing near the Pir^s tomb, Alcock. Kadamum ; 

 Fleviing ! Kalpeni; Alcock! Minikoi ; Fleming! 



One of the Tulsi plants, occasionally cultivated, but generally 

 occurring as a weed of waste places throughout tropical Africa, 

 the Mascarene Islands, India, Ceylon and Malaya, It also occurs 

 as a weed in America, but there it is probably only an escape 

 from cultivation and not an indigenous plant. Here, where 

 the people are Mohammedans, the true or sacred Tnlsi {Ocimum 

 sanctum) is not found at all, this — the Ravi Ttdsi — taking its 

 place. In Car Nicobar and in Burma, where also one Tnlsi is as 

 good as an other, the people not being Hindus, it is the Gidal 

 Tulsi — the Basil (0. Basilicmn) — that is usually found as a weed 

 near native dwellings. 



120. Anisomeles OVata R. Br. in Ait., Hort. Kew, (ed. ii,), ii., 

 364; Hook, f., Flor. Bnt. Ind., iv., 672. Nepeta indica Linn., Sp. 

 PI. 571. Ballofa disticha Linn., Mantiss. 83. Ajuga disiicha 

 Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii., 2. 



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

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