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AROIDEA. 
163. Colocasia antiquorum Schott: Engler m DC., Monoer, 
Phanerog., ii, 491. 
var. typica. C. antiquorum Schott, Meletem. i, 18. <Arwm Colocasia 
Linn., Sp. Pl. 965; Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii, 494. The Kachu or 
Indian Taro. 
Améni ; cultivated, Hume. Anderut ; cultivated, Alcock. Kalpéni ; both 
cultivated and wild, Alcock! Kiltaén; wild, Mleming. Kadamum; wild, 
Fleming. Akati ; wild, Fleming. Minikoi; wild, Fleming. 
A native of India, cultivated in nearly all tropical and subtropical countries. 
There is little doubt that this has been intentionally introduced ; it receives, 
however, slight attention in any of the islands, and in nearly everyone of them 
it has established itself as a weed. 
CYPERACEZE, 
164. Cyperus hyalinus Vahl, Enum, ii, 329; Clarke, Ind. 
Cyperus 46. 
Kadamum ; Fleming ! 
A very rare South Indian weed. 
165. Cyperus polystachyus Rottb., Descr. et Ic. 39, t, 11, f.1; 
Roxb., Flor. Ind., i, 193 ; Clarke, Ind, Cyperus 51. 
Minikoi ; Fleming ! 
A cosmopolitan tropical and subtropical weed, especially in islands and on 
sea-shores. 
166. Cyperus compressus Linn., Sp. Pl. 46; Roxb., Flor. Ind., 
i, 194 ; Clarke, Ind. Cyperus 97. 
Kalpéni ; Alcock / 
A cosmopolitan tropical weed. 
167, Cyperus pachyrrhizus Nees ex Boeck. im Linnea, xxxv, 
545 ; Clarke, Ind. Cyperus 111. 
Bitrapar ; Hume! Fleming! Kadamum ; Fleming! Bangaro ; Hume ! 
A littoral species, confined to the coasts of India, Mr. Clarke, however, in 
a letter to the writer, in which he has kindly criticised the former Laccadive 
List, states that in Dr, Trimen’s opinion the purely maritime C. pachyrrhizus 
cannot be specifically distinguished from C. conglomeratus (Rotth., Descr. et 
Tc,, 21, t. 15, £. 7 ; Clarke, Ind. Cyperus, 112), a plant occurring in the deserts 
of North-East Africa and South-West Asia (Nubia, Arabia, Syria, Socotra, 
Beluchistan). 
168. Cyperus pennatus Lamk i Poir., Encyc, Meth., vii, 240 ; 
Clarke, Ind, Cyperus 194, 
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