OP THE MALDIVE ISLANDS. 
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“ One of the first to appear on a bare sandbank, and the 
outermost on a growing sandy beach.” — J. S. G. 
A littoral species, common on the coasts of Ceylon, India, 
Egypt, Mauritius, and E. Africa. Laccadives, in Bitrapar and 
Kadamum, and in Minikoi, Prain, Gardiner. 
Goodeniacece, 
Scævola, L. 
Koeiiigii, Vahl.; Magu, M. ; Takkada, S. 
Hedufuri, Goifurfehendu Atoll, Hulule 49, Veimandu in 
Kolumadulu, Gardiner ! 
I. Didi, 142 ! Trimen’s list ; no specimen. The most 
numerous shrub in the group ; wherever a sandy beach is 
growing outwards it lines the shore. (See under Pemphis, 
Morinda, Ochrosia, and below.) 
A littoral species, common in E. Tropical Africa, Asia, and 
Australia, and in Polynesia. Common in Ceylon, especially 
in the S.W.; Laccadives, in Bitrapar, Kadamum, Kiltan, and 
Akati, Prain ; Minikoi, Prain, Gardiner ; Diego Garcia 
Hemsley. 
{Plumbaginaceœ, 
Plumbago zeylanica, L. ; in Ameni, Laccadives.) 
Myrsinaceœ. 
Irdisia, Sw, 
humîlîs, Vahl, 
Suvadiva Atoll, very abundant ; the undergrowth mostly 
composed of it ; Addu Atoll, common in all the jungles, 
Gardiner (C. Mez ) ! 
Ceylon S.W. and Batticaloa, India to China. The Ceylon 
distribution would seem to indicate sea-carriage, but it may 
have been introduced by birds. 
(The absence of Ægiceras majus, Gaertn.^ one of the 
palæotropical mangroves, from the Maldives, as well as from 
the Laccadives and Minikoi, is noteworthy. It may however 
very likely have been overlooked.) 
