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Kiltaén ; cultivated, Hume, Fleming! Anderut; cultivated, Alcock. Kadamum; 
Fleming! Améni; cultivated for its oil, Robinson. Bitrapar ; growing near 
the centre of the island, Meming ! Minikoi ; cultivated and a very common 
escape, Hleming ! 
A native of Africa, cultivated generally in the tropics for its oil, but 
readily escaping and becoming naturalised, its presence in the uninhabited island. 
of Bitra being an excellent instance of the readiness with which it runs wild. © It 
is noteworthy that it was not present in Bitra when Mr, Hume visited . that 
island in 1875. 
URTICACE, 
146. Ficus BENGALENSIS Linn., Hort. Cliff. 471,n. 4; King im Hook. 
f., Flor. Brit. Ind., v, 499. #. indica Linn., Amoen, Acad, (ed. ili), i, 27, n. 
6; Roxb., Flor. Ind., 11, 539. The Banyan. 
Améni ; planted, Hwme. Kadamum ; four trees seen in the neighbourhood 
of some deserted huts, from their arrangement in a row evidently planted, 
Fleming. Minikoi ; planted, Fleming. 
Planted generally throughout India, wild on the lower slopes of the Himalayas 
and of the Deccan hills. 
147, Ficus retusa Linn., Mantiss. 129; King im Hook. f., Flor. 
Brit. Ind., v, 511. F. Benjamina Willd., Sp. Pl., iv, 1148 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., 
iii, 550 nec Linn. 
var. nitida King, Ficus, 50; Hook. f., Flor. Brit. Ind., v, 511. 
F. mitida Thunbg, Ficus 14. 
Minikoi ; Fleming ! 
A large tree common throughout Eastern and South-Eastern Asia and 
extending to New Caledonia. Mr. Fleming does not note if the tree be planted 
in Minikoi. It is possible that it may be, but as its figs are a favourite food 
with many of the migratory fruit-pigeons, there is no reason why it should not 
be a “ wild” bird-introduced species. 
148. ARTocarPuS rncIsA Forst., Pl. Hscul. 23; Roxb., Flor. Ind., iti, 
527; Hook. f., Flor. Brit. Ind., v, 5389 ; Watt, Dict.,i,330. The Bread- 
Frut Tree. 
Kiltén ; does not thrive well, Robinson; not much appreciated, Hume ; 
Alcock. Améni; grows most luxuriantly, Robinson, Hume. Anderut ; culti- 
vated largely, Alcock. Akati; only one tree, in a garden, Fleming ! Minikoi ; 
cultivated, Mleming / 
A native of Polynesia and Eastern Malaya, occasionally cultivated in the 
hotter parts of India, ‘The Laccadive Archipelago must be near the northern 
