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WILLIS AND GARDINER : BOTANY 
A few plants were collected on Landu and Mafaro islands, 
but only such as had apparently not been seen, or rarely 
been seen, elsewhere. 
Tiladummati Atoll. 
From the information I collected this seems to resemble 
Miladumadulu, but the atoll is famous for its plantains, 
which are exported even as far as Male. Pandanus is much 
grown for sails, and Hibiscus tiliaceus for ropes. The 
people of this atoll formerly paid annual visits to the Malabar 
and South-West Indian coast. They are a very enterprising 
set, and have probably introduced a large number of the 
cultivated plants of the northern part of the group. Even 
now they regularly bring fresh strains of plantains from 
Ceylon and Southern India, as they say that their own 
deteriorate. One of my boys, too, from Nolewangfaro, 
collected quite a large number of seeds in Addu and Male, 
which he intended to try when he got home. 
IV.~TRE MALDIVIAN NAMES OF PLANTS. 
In the following table are set out in alphabetical order all 
the names known or supposed to be applied to plants by the 
Maldivians, with the plants to which they refer. Many of 
the names are no doubt wrongly applied, especially those 
given by other writers than Ibrahim Didi and J. S. Gardiner. 
It is remarkable how nearly all the plants of the flora have 
received names ; this is partly to be accounted for, no doubt, 
by the smallness of the flora, but suggests invention on the 
part of the inhabitants when questioned about the plants, 
such as is so troublesome to the botanical collector in Ceylon 
or India. The spelling of the names is given as originally 
written by the collector. Under the individual species 
above only recognized names and spellings adopted by 
