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WILLIS AND GARDINER : BOTANY 
Fadiffolu, N. and S. IVEale, Felidu, and 
Mulaku Atolls. 
Hulule in Male is described separately ; it is probably 
richer in variety of indigenous plants than any of the other 
islands, on account of its large size, position, small popula- 
tion of low caste, and little cultivation. 
The atolls mentioned lie along the eastern side of the 
Archipelago. The islands of their western side are not 
inhabited, except in Fadiffolu, and are generally bare and 
sandy, with low trees and bushes only ; cocoanuts of small 
size are scattered over them, poor in quantity and in quality. 
The eastern islands are generally densely covered in cocoa- 
nuts grown for the nut and sugar, but plantains, yams, and 
vegetables of all sorts do not flourish, and are not found 
anywhere in luxuriance. All appear from the sea to be flat- 
topped high cocoanut islands fringed with Pemphis acidula 
generally ; banyans, Calophyllum,&c.,very scarce ; the Areca 
palm not found. 
Kolumadulu and Haddumati Atolls. 
None of the islands of these atolls were visited by me, 
except Buruni in Kolumadulu ; a complete set of plants was 
collected on Yeimandu in Kolumadulu, and a few from other 
places in that atoll. A collection was also made on Kaddu 
in Haddumati. The eastern islands of both atolls are 
densely covered with cocoanuts, but have a good deal of 
high timber as well. Buruni does not differ greatly from 
the generality of Mahlos islands, but struck me as being 
especially rich in small herbaceous plants and grasses ; all 
seemed familiar, however, except a ‘‘ shamrock,” Desmodium 
triflorum, which I saw nowhere else. The Yeimandu flora, 
apart from cultivated forms, numbers flfty-five species. 
Suvadiva Atoll. 
As already mentioned, this atoll lies much to the south, 
separated by a wide channel from Haddumati to the north, 
and from Addu to the south. The eastern islands of this 
