1876.] S. Kurz — A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Nicohar Islands. 131 



179. Eugesta ceavieloea, Boxb. — A tree (40 + 10 + 3 — 4) 



rather scarce in the tropical forests of Kamorta, but a shrubby variety of 

 it is common on the grass-heaths of Kamorta ; Great Nicobar (Novara 224 ; 

 Jelinek 261 — antanyschumna, inc.). 



180. Eugeioa (Achesta?) sp., in leaf only. — Frequent in the tropical 

 forests of Kamorta. 



181. Babben'gtcms'ia eacemosa, DC. — Frequent in the tropical and 

 coral-reef -forests of Kamorta and Katchall ; Karnicobar (Novara 220 ; 

 Jelinek 64 — -pisseon, inc.) ; Great Nicobar (Novara 231 ; Jelinek 220 — 

 sura, inc.). 



182. Barrqtgtoista Asiatica, Kurz in Pegu Kep. A. 65 (B. spe- 

 ciosa, L. f., non Forst.) — Common in the beach-forests all along the 

 coasts of the islands ; Karnicobar (Novara, Jelinek — kenjao or hoa, inc.) ; 

 hoica, inc. Katch. 



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183. Osbeckia sp. — Nicobars (teste D.) 



184. Melastoma Malabathbicum, L. and a small procumbent form of 

 it not higher than | — 1 foot. — Common as shrubbery along the outskirts of 

 the tropical forests and on the grass-heaths of Kamorta, the procumbent 

 form restricted to the latter. 



185. Melastoma poltanthum, BL, var. ? — Nicobars (Novara 217 ; 

 Jelinek). 



186. Otantheea Nicobaeensis, T. et B. in Naturk. Tydschr. Ned. 

 Ind. XXIV. 333. — Tropical forests of Katchall ; Great Nicobar (Novara 

 219; Jelinek 172). 



187. Dissoch^ta, sp. — Nicobars (teste D.). 



188. Ptebnandea cui;bu:lescefs, Jack. — Bare in the tropical for- 

 ests of Kamorta. 



189. Memectlon STJBTBEsrEEViUMjMiq. Suppl. Fl. Sumatr. 322. 

 Var. gbandieolia, folia 8 — 10 poll, longa, magis coriacea et nitidiora, 



nervis minus distinctis ; petioli crassiores ; pedicelli solitarii v. bini, 2 — 3 lin. 

 longi, subgraciles, pedunculum 1 — 2 lin. longum articulatum supra foliorum 

 cicatrices erumpentem terminantes ; baccaB submaturse obovoideo-oblonga?, 

 c. 7 — 8 lin. longse, laeves, glabrae, calycis limbo speciei coronatse. — Bare in 

 the tropical forests of Kamorta. A small tree, which I identify with 

 Miquel's M. sultrinervium, on the supposition that the berries in Miquel's 

 plant would, when full grown, reach a similar size. As a species it is a very 

 distinct one, being one of the few that have the berry not globular. 



N. B. Memecylon pauciflorum, Wall. Cat. 4114 (Triana in Trans, 

 Linn. Soc. XXVIII. 159), = Canthium glomerulatum, Miq. 



