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noted that he did not visit Anderut then—he gives a circumstantial account of 
the cultivation of certain millets and pulses in Améni and Kadamum, but says 
that in Chitlac field-cultivation was then quite insignificant and that in Kiltan 
it had given way altogether before the planting of coco-nut trees. Writing 
thirty years later, Mr. Hume says* that “in former days a certain amount of 
“ millets used to be grown in all the islands; now, even in Améni, little or 
“none appears to be cultivated, and the people are wholly dependent for their 
“ supplies on the mainland, whence they bring, not only rice, but tobacco and 
“ salt, which, curiously enough, never seems to have been manufactured on the 
*‘ islands, the people being allowed to get duty-free salt from Goa.” 
In Anderut, judging from Dr. Alcock’s brief notice of the island, there 
appears to be even to this day more cereal cultivation than in most of the other 
islands ; still he does not speak of rice as being grown, and says that the staple 
crop is ragi (Hleusine Coracana). 
179. Saccharum oFFIoINARUM Linn., Sp. Pl 54; ney. Flor. Ind., i, 
237. 
Minikei ; cultivated, Mlemmyg. 
Cultivated throughout the tropics. 
180. Eschaemum ciliare Retz., Obs., vi, 36. JZ. tenellum Roxb., 
Flor. Ind., i, 323. 
Kalpéni; Alcock! Akati; Fleming! Bitrapar; Mleming! Kadamum ; 
Fleming ! Kiltan ; Fleming! Everywhere very plentiful. 
Confined to China, India and Indo-China. 
181. Ischaemum muticum Linn., Sp. Pl. 1049. JZ. repens, Roxb., 
Flor. Ind., i, 323. 
Kalpéni ; Alcock ! Minikoi ; Fleming ! 
Extends from 8. E. Asia to Australia and Western Polynesia ; is very common 
on the coast in the Andamans and Nicobars. 
182. Andropogon contortus Linn., Sp. Pl. 1045; Roxb., Flor. 
Ind., i, 253. 
Kiltan ; Alcock ! Kadamum ; very plentiful, Fleming / 
A common grass of dry places, cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
183. ANDROPOGON MURICATUS Retz. Obs., ii, 48; Roxb., Flor. Ind., i, 
265 ; Watt, Dict., i, 245. The Ahus-khus grass, 
Kiltan ; a little clump found growing near the mosque, Meming ! 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics ; here probably introduced. Haeckel (DC., Monogr: 
Phamerog., Vi., 542) identifies A. muricatus Retz. with A. squarrosus Linn, f., but 
omits to cite Roxburgh’s description of the Khus-khus grass or to gay whether 
* “Stray Feathers,” iv, 441. 
