OP THE MALDIVE ISLANDS. 
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Cladium, P. Br. 
jamaicense, Crantz {Mariscus, R. Br.). 
Addu Atoll, Gardiner. (Prain ! “ As nearly as possible 
typical,” C. B. Clarke ! ) Grows to a height of 4-5 ft., almost 
completely covering a large swamp in Midu island (water 
quite fresh). — J. S. G. 
A cosmopolitan species, temperate and tropical. Not 
recorded for India or Ceylon, except from high elevations 
in Kashmir ; Mauritius. 
[Remirea maritima, Atihl., a cosmopolitan tropical littoral 
species, common in Ceylon, is absent from the Maldives and 
Laccadives, so far as we know.] 
Gramineœ. 
Paspalum, L. 
sang'uinale, Lamk. 
Goifurfehendu Atoll, Gardiner ! Common in Suvadiva. 
Cosmopolitan in warm countries, Minikoi, Akati (Lacca- 
dives), Prain ; Diego Garcia, Hemsley. 
Panicum, L. 
Miliaceum, L.; Bai, M.; Wal-meneri, S. ; Millet. 
Trimen’s list ; no specimens. See Bell, lx. 84. Culti- 
vated. “ Formerly extensively cultivated throughout the 
whole group : only saw it in Kenurus (Mahlos) and Mafaro 
(Miladumadulu).” — J. S. G. 
(trigonum, Retz.; Hue, in Minikoi, Gardiner.) 
Spiiiifex, L. 
squarrosus, L. 
Common in N. Mahlos, Goidu (Horsburgh), &c. — J. S. G. 
A littoral species, on sandy shores, Ceylon, India, Burmah 
to China, Minikoi, Prain ; Laccadives, in Bitrapar, Prain. 
Sea-borne. 
Oplismeiius, Beauv. 
' (Burmanni, Beauv.; in Akati, Kadamum, Kiltan, 
Minikoi, Prain«) 
compositus, Beauv. ; Ona hui, M. 
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