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WILLIS AND GARDINER : BOTANY 
Common throughout the group ; the bark used for rope 
and fishing lines. 
A littoral species, probably introduced by the sea ; cos- 
mopolitan on tropical coasts ; Minikoi, Gardiner, Prain ; 
Laccadives, in Akati, Prain. 
Abelmoschus, L, ? 
Gaddu in Suvadiva, Veimandu in Kolumadulu, Gardiner. 
Leaves only, but almost certainly this sp. Not culti- 
vated* — J. S. G. 
Everywhere cultivated in the tropics. 
RoSA-SINENSIS, L. ; the Shoe-flower. 
Rimbadu in S. Nilandu. Here and there near mosques. — 
J. S. G. 
Cultivated all over the tropics. Minikoi, Prain. 
Thespesia, Gorr. 
populnea, Gorr. ; Hirundu, M. ; Suriya, S.; the Tulip 
Tree. 
Hulule 28, Gardiner ! Male, Trimen. Semi-wild all over 
the Archipelago, by villages. 
A littoral species, common from Africa to Polynesia. 
Minikoi, Gardiner. Laccadives, in Kiltan, Akati, Kadamum, 
Prain. Probably sea-borne. 
Gossypium, L. 
HERRACBUM, L.; Indian Cotton ; Kafa,M. ; Kapu, S.* 
I. Didi, 85. Fainu in N. Mahlos, Gardiner ! 
A native of the Old World, cultivated in India and 
Ceylon ; Laccadives, in Änderet, Minikoi, Prain. 
BARBADENSE,L.,var. Acuminates ; Barbados Cotton ; 
Bodu kafa, M.* 
I. Didi, 86 ! Goifurfehendu Atoll, Malé, Veimandu in 
Kolumadulu, Gardiner ! 
* G. herbaceum was formerly cultivated all over the group, but its place 
was taken by G. barbadense. Now the latter is displaced by imported cot- 
ton, though still grown for use in surgery. It is also used in Addu for a 
coarse kind of loin cloth.— J. S. G. 
