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WILLIS AND GARDINER : BOTANY 
Hedufuri, Hulule 37, Veimandu inKolumadulu, Gardiner ! 
A very common wet jungle grass, especially in Addu and 
Suvadiva. — J. S. G. 
An almost cosmopolitan tropical grass. Laccadives, in 
Ameni and Akati, Minikoi, Prain. 
Setaria, Beauv, 
ITALICA, Beauv,; Ura, M. ; Italian Millet. 
Trimen’s list ; no specimens. “Not so common at any 
time as Panicum miliaceum. I was given a little at Raska- 
teen, N. Mahlos, where some was growing half wild.” — 
J. S. G. Cultivated in Ceylon and other warm countries. 
(verticillata, Beauv. ; in Ameni, Bangaro, Kadamum, 
Kiltan, Prain.) 
Stenotaphrum, Trin. 
complanatum, Schrank. 
Veimandu in Kolumadulu, Gardiner ! 
Tropical Africa, Mascarene Is. to N. Australia. Diego 
Garcia, Hemsley. Perhaps sea-borne, like other grasses. 
Tlmarea, Pers. 
sarmentosa, Pers. 
Hedufuri, Goifurfehendu Atoll, Gardiner ! Common on 
sandy sunny beaches throughout the Archipelago ; character- 
istic of the same area in Goidu as Ipomcea biloba. — J. S. G. 
A littoral sea-borne species, Mascarene Is., Ceylon, Nico- 
bars, Andamans, Malay Is., Polynesia. Not in India. 
Minikoi, Laccadives in Bangaro and Kadamum, Prain. 
(Oryza sativa, L. ; Rice ; Handu, M. ; appears to be 
occasionally cultivated in some islands, but the bulk of the 
supply is imported from India. “ The natives have tried to 
introduce this many times, but it will not grow and set 
seed.” — J. S. G. Cultivated in Anderut, Laccadives.) 
Zoysia, Willd. 
puugens, Willd. 
Trimen ; no specimens. A common littoral grass in Trop. 
Asia, Australia, and Mauritius. 
