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10. CEYLON, SUR AITS Ei MALDIVES, ANDAMANS, 
NORTH BORNEO, UNE ONG: AND PORT HAMILTON. 
ON. —-Situated between 6° and 10? N. lat. and 79? and 82° E 
: en ut 
an area of 24,702 square miles. There is a central mountain range 
rising to a height of upwards of 8,000 feet. Vegetation luxuriant and 
varied, and containing a large number of endemic . forms. 
Ferguson, W. A descriptive list of Ceylon Timber Trees, reprinted 
from Ferguson’ s Ceylon Directory for 1863, pp. 225-257. 
Thwaites, G.H. K. Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylonie. London, 1864. 
8vo. d 483. 
Trimen, H. Systematic  ufalogi of the Penre Plants and 
Ferns of Ceylon. Colombo, 1885. 8vo. pp. 137. 
Trimen, H. Notes on Ceylon Plants: Journal of Botany, 1885 
and 1889. A series of doniis ve papers 
Ceylon Vegetable Products. Fiaisdbook for Ceylon, Colonial and 
Indian Exhibition, 1886. 
The plants of Ceylon are also included in Hooker’s “ Flora of British 
genera and 156 natural orders. The almost exclusively Asiatic order, 
Dipterocarpes, i is very largely developed in the island, and nearly all of 
the species are endemic. There is one species of Ne epenthes Bates 
Plant), and one species of the essentially Australian genus, Stylidium 
Laccapive and Matptve Istanps.—A chain of yn islands s Iyitirto 
the west of India and stretching from about 13? ?S.lat. The 
largest of the thirty-two islands of the former gr oup is seven miles long 
and two and a half broad ; and Mali, the largest in the latter, is se 
miles in circumference. There are seventeen groups of the Maldives. 
The indigenous vegetation is doubtless very scanty and poor in species, 
but there appears “to be no record of the plants of ves deii here 
are a few plants from the Laccadives in the Kew Her 
ANDAMAN and NICOBAR IsrANDs.—A chain of inis A the 
coast of Martaban, in the Indian Ocean, between 7° and 14° N. lat., and 
92? to 94? E. long. The principal islands, esci egi fria bordi to 
south, are North Andaman, Middle Andima and South Andaman 
(which are only separated by narrow channels), Little Andaman, Kar 
Nicobar, Kamorta, Katchal, Little Nicobar, and Great Nicobar. Amo 
the smaller ones are: Great Cocos, Little Cocos; Landfall, Interview, 
Sound, Barren, Chatham, North Sentinel, South Sentinel, Cinque, 
Passage, Sisters, Brothers, Batti Malve, Tillandyong, Chowrey, Bom- 
poka, Teressa, Trinkut, and Meroe. These islands, which nowhere 
attain a sufficient elevation to aifect materi ally the character of the vege- 
tation, have only been very partially explored botanically. 
Kurz, S. Report on the Vegetation of the ‘Lites Islands. Cal- 
cutta, 1870. Folio. 75. 
Kurz, S. Descriptions of New Plants from the Nicobar m Anda- 
man Islands: Journal of Botany, 1875, pp. 321—333, tt. 169-1 
urz, S. A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Nicobar cnt: 3 ournal 
of die. Asiatic Society of Bengal, xlv. (1876), 2, pp. 105-164, tt. 12-13. 
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