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roots. It is not cultivated, however, in Anderut, and as it is a common littoral 
species throughout the Andamans and Nicobars, it is here quite possibly a sea- 
introduced species. 
CoMMELYNE, 
158. neilema ovalifolium Hook. f., ee C. B. Clarke im DC. 
Monogr, Phan., iii, 218. 
Minikoi ; Mleming ! 
A herbaceous weed of jungles and grassy places confined to Southern India. 
159. Cyanotis cristata Roem. & Schult., Syst., vii, 1150. Comme- 
tina cristata Linn., Sp. Pl. 42. Zradescantia imbricata Roxb., Flor. Ind., 
i, 120. 
Kadamum ; Fleming ! Kiltén ; in grass along with Leucas aspera, Fleming ! 
Minikoi ; on ground and also epiphytic on Cocos nucifera, Fleming ! 
A weed of grassy places in the Mascarene Islands, India and Malaya. 
PaLMEA, 
160. ARrzca Catecnu Linn., Sp. Pl. 1189 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., ii, 615 ; 
Watt, Dict., i, 291. The Betel-nut Palm. 
Améni; cultivated, Robinson, Hume. Anderut ; cultivated, Wood, Alcock. 
Kiltan ; does not thrive, Robison. Minikoi ; cultivated, Fleming. 
Cultivated in tropical countries. , 
161. Cocos nuciFERA Linn., Sp. Pl. 1188; Roxb., Flor. Ind., iti, 614. 
The Coco-nut Palin. 
Améni; Robinson, Hume. Anderut ; Wood, Alcock, Akati; Mleming. 
Bangaro ; Hume. Bitrapar; Robinson, Hume, Chitlac ; of slow growth and 
not productive, Robinson. Kadamum ; Robinson, Hume, Fleming. Kalpéni, 
Alcock. Kiltan ; Robinson, Hume, Alcock, Fleming. Korati ; Hume, Minikoi ; 
Hleming. 
Lieut. Wood’s list gives the coco-nut as present on all the islands except 
Kalpéni Féti and Akati Féti, which are mentioned as mere sand-banks, but the 
send-banks of Pirmalla and Pittiand the coral islets on Cherbaniani and—if, 
indeed, there are islets there—on Cheriapani reefs are quite devoid of vegetation, 
and if visited at all by the islanders are visited for the purposes of fishing or ege- 
collecting, not for coco-nuts and coir. Bitra, however, which is uninhabited ,has 
coco-nuts and is visited on account of these by people from the northern islands, 
The coco-nuts there, from their position as described by Robinson and Hume 
and from the accounts of the people, are evidently only planted. Bangéro and 
(apparently) Tangdro, two uninhabited islands on the Akati reef, have coco-nuts 
clearly, from Hume’s account of the former, sea-introduced and not planted. 
Whether there are coco-nuts on Suheli is not clear; according to Wood’s list, 
