1891.] D. Prain — The Vegetation of the Coco Group. 301 



§ § List of Plants collected in the Great Coco, Little Coco and 



Table Ihland. 



PHANEROGAMJ;. 



Thalamifloej!. 

 ANONACE^. 



1. MiLIUSA Sp. 



Great Coco ; Little Coco ; very common in both islands. 



The specimens obtained are in fruit only ; the leaves ai*e glabrous 

 but otherwise are much like those of M. Eoxburghiana ; the fruits are 

 very like those of M. macrocarpa. 



MENISPERMACE^. 



2. Ctclea peltata H. f. and T. 

 Great Coco ; common. 



Burma, Nicobars. Not previously recorded from the Andaman 

 group. 



3. Antitaxis galocarpa Kurz. 



Great Coco ; common. 

 Andamans, Nicobars. 



NYMPH^ACE^. 



4. Nymph^a Lotus Linn, 



Great Coco ; plentiful in the small lake at the north-east corner of 

 the island — only the red flowered form (N. rubra Roxb.). Little Coco; 

 sparingly in the lake at the south-west corner of the island — only the 

 white form (N. Lotus Linn.). 



This species is not included in any Andamans list and Kurz (Report 

 on the Vegetation of the Andamans, p. 15) comments on the absence of 

 Nymph JiACEiE. As a matter of fact this species does occurs in the Anda- 

 mans ; as does Barclaya longifolia. Nymphcea Lotus is very plentiful 

 everywhere about the settlement at Port Blair, and in one arm of a creek 

 that had been shut off from the tide by a bank of earth only three months 

 before, the writer in December 1890 found hundreds of seedling plants 

 already springing up. The lake in which it occurs on Little Coco is 

 only a mangrove creek naturally closed from the sea by a sand-bank and 

 the water is still slightly brackish ; the vegetation around consists of 

 Bruguiera, Lumnitzera, Ceriops, Avicennia, and other mangrove swamp 

 species. 



