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MYRSINE^. 



141. Ardtsia humtlts Valil. 



In all the islands, common in the beach forest, 

 India, China, Malaya. 



142. ^GICERAS MAJUS Gaertn. 



Great Coco ; fruits seen in the sea-drifts on the coast ; doubt- 

 less the species occurs frequently in the mangrove swamps, though no 

 individual tree was met with. 

 . Cosmopolitan on tropical sea-coasts. 



SAPOTACE^. 



143. MiMUSOPS LITTORALIS Kurz. 



In all the islands ; next to Gyrocarpus Jac.quini, this (the Andaman 

 Bullet-wood) is the commonest tree in the group. 



In Jerry Island, off the south end of Great Coco, and for about two 

 miles along the coast at the south end of Great Coco, nearly every tree 

 that has attained a height of 80 feet presents from the sea the ap- 

 pearance of being dead. Closer inspection, however, shews that in many 

 (perhaps most) cases only the whole of the main branches are dead, 

 while about their bases or along the main trunk numerous close bunches 

 of small branches have appeared, the leaves of which keep the trees 

 still alive. The same thing is apparent at the south-west Corner of 

 Little Coco but is less striking because less extensive. 



Andamans, Nicobars. 



EBENACE^. 



144. Dtospteos Kurzii Hiern. 



Little Coco ; Great Coco, rare. 

 Andamans, Nicobars. 



APOCTNE.^E. 



146. Rauwolfia serpentina Benth. 



Great Coco, common. 



India, Burma, Tenasserim, Java ; not previously reported from tha 

 Andamans. 



146. Ceebeea Odollam, Gaertn. 



Great Coco, rare ; in mangrove swamps. 



India, Malaya, Andamans ; China; Australia, Polynesia. 



147. OcHROSiA borbonica Gmel. 



Little Coco, common ; in beach forests. 

 Andamans, Malaya, Seychelles, Mascarene Islands. 



