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WTLLTS AND GARDINER : BOTANY 
northernmost bank lies the atoll of Minikoi, which politically 
belongs to the Laccadives, but geographically to the Mal- 
dives. This island was also visited by Mr. Gardiner, and a 
number of plants collected there prove to be additions to 
the flora as hitherto known from Dr. Drain’s^' descriptions. 
The atolls, working from north to south, are in order, the 
following (see map) : — 
Ihavandifulu, Tiladumati, Miladumadulu (small collec- 
tions made on Landu and Mafaro Islands), Makunudu, 
North Mahlosmadulu (collection from Limbo Kandu and 
from Fainu and Kenurus, incomplete), Fadiffolu, South 
Mahlosmadulu (complete collection from Hedufuri Island 
on the south side, and a few plants from Turadu), Hors- 
burgh or Goifurfehendu (complete collection from Goidu 
and two other islands). North Male (complete collec- 
tions from Malé, if those mentioned above be put together, 
and complete collection from Hulule by Gardiner), South 
Malé, Ari, Felidu, North and South Nilandu, Mulaku, 
Kolumadulu (moderately complete collection from Vei- 
mandu, and a plant from Buruni), Haddumati (a fevr plants 
from Kadu), then after a wide interval of sea, Suvadivs 
(many plants from Wiligili), and again after a wide stretch 
of sea, Addu, the southernmost atoll (a fairly complete 
collection of the more interesting forms). 
We have thus before us the possibility of making what is^ 
probably a nearly complete flora of the archipelago, and at 
the same time of comparing the floras of different parts of 
the group. 
The northern atolls, from Ihavandifulu to Goifurfehendu, 
are separated from the central by the Kardiva Channel, 35 
miles wide, and with very strong currents in the monsoons. 
The central, from North Malé to Haddumati, form another 
well-marked group, and in the south we find the two 
isolated groups, Suvadiva and Addu. 
* Botany of the Laccadives, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., VII., VIII. 
1892-93. 
Willis : Note on the Flora of Minikoi, Ann. Perad. I., 1901, p. 39. 
