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Anderut ; Alcock 1 Kalpéni ; Alcock ! Akati ; Fleming ! Minikoi ; Fleming ! 
A littoral and estuarine species, extending from the Mascarene Islands to 
India, Malaya and North Australia. 
169. Cyperus dubius Rottb., Descr. et Ic. 20, t. 4, f.5; Roxb., 
Flor. Ind., i, 189 ; Clarke, Ind. Cyperus 197. 
Minikoi ; Mleming ! 
A littoral species, extending from Indo- China and Malaya to India, Ceylon, 
the Mascarene Islands and the African Coast. 
170. Kyllinga brevifolia Rottb., Descr. et Ic. 13, t. 4, f. 3. 
Minikoi ; in the sward underneath the coat trees, Planing. ! 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
171. Fimbristylis diphylla Vahl. Enum., ii, 289. Scirpus 
miliaceus Roxb., Flor. Ind., i, 227. 
Kalpéni ; Alcock / 
The solitary specimen is not a good one, and the identification is not absolute- 
ly certain, ‘The plant is, however, not any of the other Cyperacec enumerated. 
Common on seashores and in wet places throughout the tropics. 
GRAMINEZ, 
172. Panicum sanguinale Linn., Sp. Pl. 57. 
var. ciliare. LP. ciliare Retz., Obs., iv, 16 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., i., 293. 
Akati ; dwarfed specimens, Fleming ! Minikoi ; very abundant, Fleming / 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics ; the variety present here seems, however, confined 
to the Eastern Hemisphere. 
173. Oplismenus Burmanni Beauv., Agrost., 54. Panicum Bur- 
manni Retz., Obs., tii, 10 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., 1, 298. 
Akati ; ieweny ! Kadamum ; Fleming! Kiltén; HMeming ! Minikoi ; 
Fleming ! Everywhere abundant, as is the next species. 
Cosmopolitan in tropical and subtropical countries. 
174. Oplismenus compositus Roem. & Schult., Syst., ii, 484. 
Panicum compositum Linn., Sp. Pl, 57. P. lanceolatum Roxb, Flor. Ind., i, 
294. 
Améni; Hume! Akati; Fleming ! Minikoi ; Fleming ! 
Widely distributed throughout the tropics of the old world. 
175. Setaria verticillata Beauv., Agrost., 51. Panicum verticil- 
latum Linn., Sp. Pl. (ed. ii) 82 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind, i, 301. 
Améni ; a crop, vernac. “ badag,” Robinson. Bangaro ; Hume / Kadamum ; 
Fleming ! Kiltén ; Fleming! If cultivated at the time of Mr. Robinson’s visit 
(1844), apparently not cultivated when Mr, Hume was at the Laccadives (1875) ; 
its presence in the uninhabited island of Bangéro indicates, moreover, that 
