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CONVOLVULACE^. 
52. - Ertcibb paniculata Roxb. var. pegubnsis, Clarke. A small 
subscandent wide-spreading tree; leaves elliptic cuneately acuminate ; 
at botb ends secondary nerves scarcely visible beneath with dense pan- 
cles, white flowei’S and rusty-tomentose shoots. The present locality 
stands intermediate between those hitherto recorded for the variety— 
Chittagong (Hooker,) and Moulmein (several collectors). 
53. IpOMiEA GRANDIPLORA Lamk. Very common, climbing amongst 
the Coast species on the western and northern sides of the Island, and 
also for a little way amongst the adjacent inland species. 
54. I. DTGITATA Linn. Common with the preceding on the western 
side of the Island. 
55. I. DENTICULATA Choisy. By the side of the stream between 
the boat-house and the pilots’ house, beside the path from the boat-house 
to the telegraph-office, along the cleared slope between the telegraph- 
office and the sea, and again at the north-east corner of the Island, al¬ 
ways plentiful. The distribution of this species, so far as was known in 
1883, was (F. B. I. iv, 208) “ Malay Peninsula ; from Mergui south- 
“ wards. Ceylon ; near the sea at Gallo. Hicobars,” its further dis¬ 
tribution being “Malaya, Australia, Polynesia, Seychelles.” But it is 
now known to extend further up the Bay. It occurs in the Andamans, 
is exceedingly plentiful on the Great Coco, was collected by Kurz at 
Kobah on the shores of S. Burma during his latest journey, is very 
plentiful here in Diamond Island, and was collected by Kurz at Akyab 
which is still further north. In the Great Coco a curious feature in this 
species and the next is their habitat. This species converts raised 
coral “ shingle ” beaches into purple meadows ; on this shingle not a 
single plant of J. biloha is to be met with ; flat crescentic stretches of 
level sand at the heads of bays are completely covered with I. biloha 
and not a plant of I. denticulata is to be seen. Whenever a little cleared 
patch of soil occurs near the sea the two species appear in it plentifully 
side by side. 
56. I. BILOBA Forsk. Sand-beaches on north and west side of 
island, not plentiful. Also with the preceding species between the 
boat-house and the telegraph-office. 
SOLANACE^. 
57. Capsicum minimum Roxb. In the telegraph-master’s garden, 
cultivated j but also all over the central clearing, spontaneous. 
SCROPULARIACE.^. 
58. Limnophila conperta Benth.; Hook. f. In marshy ground 
along with Hydrolea. 
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