OF THE MALDIVE ISLANDS. 
Ill 
A weed, common in the Old World tropics, and natu- 
ralized in America. Laccadives, in Ameni and Kadamum, 
Prain. 
Era^rostis, Host. 
tenella, R. & S., var. pliimosa, Stapf. ; Tubuli hui, 
Sannipoo (Minikoi), M. 
I. Didi, 141 ! Goifurfehendu Atoll, Hulule 10, very com- 
mon, Gardiner ! One of the first grasses to reach a sand- 
bank, followed by Scævola. 
Common in Tropical Asia and Africa. Sea-borne. Mini- 
koi, Prain, Gardiner. 
Laccadives, in Kalpeni, Akati, Kadamum, Kiltan, Prain. 
(Lepturus repeilS, R. Br.; in Minikoi, and Laccadives in 
Bangaro and Bitrapar, Prain. Littoral, a rare grass in 
Ceylon, Malay and Polynesian Is.) 
Bambusa, Schrei). 
Arundinacea, Willd., or Vulgaris, Sehr ad., or 
both ? or more ? 
Malé and other islands. A plain yellow bamboo, ap- 
parently vulgaris, is grown in Landu. A dwarf kind is 
more common, growing in many house compounds. — J.S.G. 
GYMNOSÏERMÆ. 
Cycadaceœ. 
Cycas, L. 
circinalis, L. 
Island near Malé, F. Lewis. 
, CRYPTOGAMÆ. 
Filices. 
(Asplénium æquabile, Baker. 
longissimum, Blume. -k 
falcatum, Lam. ; all in Diego Garcia, Hemsley.) 
Aephrolepis, Schott. 
exaltata, Schott. ; Kees fila, Makunu hungal, M. 
