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WILLIS AND GARDINER : ROTANT 
PULCHBRRIMA, ; Patangu, M.; Peacock Flower. 
I. Didi, 51 ! 
Cultivated for its ornamental flowers in all tropical coun- 
tries. 
POINCIANA, L, 
Regia, Boj, ; Kandi-toli, M. ; Flamboyante. 
I. Didi, 3, a fragment, appears to be this. “ One tree in 
one of the Sultan’s house compounds, and one by a mosque 
bathing pool near the W. of Male.” — J. S. G. 
Cultivated in all tropical countries for ornament. 
Cassia, L. 
occidentalis, L,; Kuhada, M. (Minikoi) ; Penitora, S. 
Miladumadulu, Gardiner (Prain) ! Malé, Capt. Simons ! 
A cosmopolitan tropical weed. Minikoi, Gardiner ; Lacca- 
dives, in Akati, Prain. 
Sophera, L. ; Rana-rua, M.; Ura-tora, S. 
Goifurfehendu, Hulule, Male, Veimandu in Kolumadulu, 
Gardiner ! Malé, Trimen. No specimen in the Peradeniya 
herbarium. “Grown as an ornamental plant round the 
mosques, especially in Addu and Suvadiva ; in the latter it 
is reported to be connected with the Shastras.” — J. S. G. 
Cultivated and semi-wild. 
A cosmopolitan tropical weed. Not recorded for Minikoi 
or the Laccadives. 
Tora, L, 
Goifurfehendu, by mosques, Gardiner ! 
An almost cosmopolitan tropical weed. Laccadives, in 
Kalpeni, Kadamum. Akati and Kiltan, Prain. 
auriculata, L. ; Ranawia, M. 
Malé, Trimen. No specimens. 
glauca, Lam., var. sufTruticosa, Koenig ; Rana-ura, M. 
I. Didi, 105 (Prain) ! 
A weed ; India, Ceylon at Trincomalee ? Malaya, Aus- 
tralia, Polynesia. 
