WILLIS AND GARDINER: BOTANY 
Btiruni in Kolumadulu, Gardiner ! Never seen elsewhere ; 
grows on the broad mass of roots of the cocoanut tree. 
Cosmopolitan tropical littoral and inland weed. Lacca- 
dives, in Akati, Kiltan, and Kadamnm, Prain. Minikoi, 
Prain, Gardiner. Perhaps sea-borne. 
(Mucuna capitata, W. ê A.; in Ameni (Laccadives), 
Prain.) 
Erythrina, Linn. 
indica, L.; Berebedi, M. ; Erabadu, S. 
I. Didi, 13 (Prain) ! 
India, Ceylon, Burmah, Malaya, Polynesia. Probably 
intentionally introduced, but perhaps sea-borne. • 
Canavalia, DO. 
Ensiformis, Z)(7., cultivated var, ; Talafuri, - M. 
(Minikoi). 
Veimandu in Kolumadulu, Gardiner (Prain) ! On waste 
land, not on the beach. 
Cultivated and more or less wild in India and Malaya. 
Minikoi, Gardiner. Not recorded for the Laccadives. 
lineata, DC.{oltusifolia^ DG., of Fl. Br. /.); Manifa, M. 
Hedufuri, Hulule 13, Gardiner (Prain) ! 
Coasts of Tropical Asia, Minikoi, Prain. Sea-borne. 
(turgida, Grah.; in Minikoi, Prain.) 
Phaseolus, L. 
Lunatus, A.; Himeri, M. 
I. Didi, 54! 
Cultivated all over the tropics. Not recorded for the 
Laccadives or Minikoi. 
(calcaratlis, Roxh.; an escape in Minikoi, Prain.) 
Vigna, Ravi. 
lutea, A. Gray. 
Veimandu, Gardiner (Prain) ! 
A littoral species, cosmopolitan in the tropics ; not in 
India or Ceylon, Minikoi, Prain, 
