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D. Prain — The Vegetation of the Coco Group. 



[No. 4, 



Species. 



S. E. Asia. 



Possibly 

 introduced 



by 



Strobilanthes pbyllostachyns 

 50. Eranthemnm album ... 



Peristrophe acuminata 



Bragantia tomentosa 



Loranthus longiflorus 



Phyllanthus colnmnaria 

 55. Cyclostemon assamicus 



Aporosa villosula 



Croton sublyratu3 ... 



*Blachia andanianica 



Claoxylon longifolium 

 60 Mallotus acuminatus ... 



*Mallotus andamanicus 



Onesmone javanica 



*Livistona sp 



*Corypha elata 

 65. *CalHmns andamanicus 



*Calamus tigrinus 



Alooasia fornicata 



Scindapsus officinalis ... 



Dendrocalamus strictus 

 70. *Xylaria clavarioides... 



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To the 67 unequivocal species of this list 3 other apparently local 

 Fungi should perhaps be added ; it is, however, extremely prob ble that 

 when thej are better kiiown they v?ill be found to exist elsewhere, in 

 which case they might be added to the list of wind-distributed species; 

 the proportion that results is therefore : — 



Migrant sp : Remanent sp : : 4 : 1. 



It will be noted that not a single species which seems unquestionably 

 " remanent " extends beyond South-Eastern Asia, and that the species 

 which are here treated as such are only 67 in number, constituting no 

 more than 20 per cent, of the flora. Of these species only 21, or 32 per 

 cent., occur in India or Ceylon or both, and of these only one {Sterculia 

 villosa) has not hitherto been found elsewhere to the east of the Sea of 

 Bengal. This " remanent" section of the flora may therefore be looked 

 upon as distinctly non-Indian. The point to be ascertained further is 

 whether this element indicates more strongly an Indo-Chinese or a 

 Malayan influence. Thirteen of the species, indicated in the tab]" ^^ 

 an (*) occur only in the Andamans or Nicobars, while seven more occur 

 only in Tenasserim on the opposite shores of the Andaman Sea. But 

 Tenasserim bears to the Malay Peuinsula g-nd Indo-China very much the 



