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in whicli Eleusine indica is the only grass that appears in tufts; behind 
the boat house is a tangled patch of Ooluhrina asiatica and Gaesalpinia 
Bonducella; on the road leading from the boat house to the telegraph 
office is a quantity of Ipomoea denticulata, at the back of the office a 
large patch of Adenostemma viscosum, between the office and the servants’ 
quarters a lai’ge patch of Ocimum iasilicum, lower down and near the 
tanlc two or three extensive patches of Cassia alata. Vernonia cinerea is 
very common all over the older clearing, but Ageratum conyzoides, 
usually such a common Aveed, is quite rare as yet. Urena lobata is com¬ 
mon towai’ds the edge of the clearing nearest the jungle, but is less com¬ 
mon than Melochia corcliorifolia is; the latter is also the commonest 
weed in the newer clearing in the centre of the Island. Scoparia dulcis 
is plentiful in both the old clearing and the new, but the common Sidas 
are conspicuous by their absence. The wet soil near the edge of the 
tank is covered with broad patches of Euphorbia thymifolia; associated 
with it is Vandellia Crustacea which is, however, less plentiful: nearer 
the tank still, or even growing in the shallow water at the eastern end, 
are Sphenoclea zeylanica, Eydrolea zeylanica, Limnophila conferta, Scir- 
pus articulatus and Geratopteris thalictroides, all very profuse. In the tank 
itself grows Nymphaea Lotus, but not very commonly; the red form is 
not present*; Nymphaea stellata too is absent; Nelumbium speciosum, 
however, is there. Perhaps the most interesting water plant present is 
Limnanthemum parvifolium, only known previously from the transgan- 
getic peninsula through a gathering in Chittagong by Hooker and 
Thomson and one in Tavoy by Wallich. The present gathering thus 
comes in midway between these two and perhaps indicates that the 
species only requires to be looked for in order to be found elsewhere in 
lower Burma. Besides the Tamarinds already referred to, there are 
near the houses of the Burmans some trees of Moringa pterygosperma 
that have evidently been introduced ; in the same situation there are 
also a few Coco-nut trees and some Plantains. In the central clearing 
the telegraph master shewed me what he imagined to be Mangosteen 
trees belonging to him ; the trees are, however, not trees of Garcinia man- 
gostana but of Garcinia cornea. He had, beside these, some trees of 
Citrus medica and G. Aurantium not doing very well; there were close by 
also some trees of each of the species Myristica glauca, Artocarpus 
Ghaplasha and Antiaris toxicaria, all either planted or preserved when the 
clearing was made; the present telegraph-master, who has been there 
many years, says they have been there since before his time. In his plan¬ 
tain garden, where he has some of the finest fruit-giving varieties and all 
* In Great Coco Island it is only the red variety of N. Lotus that occurs in its 
small la.lce. 
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