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species mentioned in the following list have reached the 
Maldives in this manner. Many probably have come in the 
bags of imported rice, others attached to articles of clothing 
or to packages, others in the earth attached to the roots of 
imported plantains and other useful plants, and in similar 
ways dependent on man. Species in brackets occur in the 
Laccadives, Minikoi, or Diego Garcia, but not in the 
Maldives : — 
Argemone mexicana 
Cleome viscosa 
Gynandropsis pentaphylla 
Polygala erioptera 
Sida humilis 
Abutilon indicum 
Hibiscus Solandra 
Corchorus acutangulus 
Tribulus terrestris 
Crotalaria retusa 
( verrucosa) 
(Indigofera cordifolia) 
Cassia occidentalis 
Tora 
glauca 
auriculata 
Mimosa pudica 
(Passiflora suberosa) 
Spermacoce ocymoides 
Hewittia bicolor 
Evolvulus alsinoides 
(Linaria ramosissima) 
Ruellia ringens 
Justicia procumbens 
Rungia parviflora 
( linifolia) 
(Peristrophe bicalyculata) 
Anisomeles ovata 
Leucas biflora 
zeylanica 
( aspera) 
Amarantus spinosus 
Euphorbia hypericifolia 
Phyllanthus maderaspatensis 
Urinaria 
Niruri 
( rotundifolius) 
(Claoxylon Mercurialis) 
Acalypha paniculata 
indica 
fallax 
Fleurya interrupta 
Pouzolzia indica 
(Aneilema ovalifolium) 
Commelina benghalensis 
Kurzii 
Cyanotis cristata 
(Oplismenus Burmanni) 
compositus 
(Setaria verticillata) 
Ischæmum ciliare 
Apluda varia 
(Cynodon Dactylon) 
(Andropogon contortus) 
Eleusine ægyptiaca 
( indica) 
A total of 56 species, of which 41 occur in the Maldives 
proper. They represent 41 genera and 18 families, of which 
28 genera and 4 families are represented in this list alone, 
taking all the islands, or 23 genera and 4 families of the 
Maidive flora only. 
