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Seyclielles; Ceylon ; Malaya, Andamans and Nicobars; Australia, 
Polynesia. 
169. Ipomj:a Turpethum R. Br. 
Both islands, not uncommon. 
India, Burma; Malaya; Australia, Polynesia; Mauritius, Seychelles. 
170. Ipomjia BiLOBA Forsk. 
In all the islands, very common ; affects principally the sandy 
beaches; in Jerry Island, however, grows on the shingle and occurs under 
rather dense jungle, from side to side of that island, at its north end. 
Cosmopolitan on tropical sea-shores. 
171. Convolvulus parviplorus Vahl. 
In all the islands; very common in the jungle along the western 
sea-face. 
Africa ; India, Burma, Malaya, Andamans; Australia. 
172. POEANA SPECTABILIS Kurz. 
Great Coco. 
Tenasserim, Andamans. 
SOLANACE^. 
173. SoLANUM Melongbna Linn. 
Table Island, cultivated in the light-house garden ; Great Coco, 
plentiful and quite naturalised all over the clearing at the north-aast 
corner of the island ; remains of the garden. 
Cult, in all warm countries. 
174. Phtsalis minima Linn. 
Great Coco ; abundant on rocky parts of the coast just above limits 
reached by spray during storms, on east, north and west coasts; Little 
Coco, on rocks in similar situations at north end of island. 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
175. Capsicum minimum Roxb. 
Table Island, in clearing, occasional, escape from the light-keeper’s 
garden; Great Coco, throughout the clearing very abundant; unlike 
Solarium Melongena this is not confined to the clearing but is extending 
into the jungle much as Garica Papaya is. 
India and Malaya; cultivated and frequent as an escape. 
SCROPHULARINE^. 
176. ScOPAEIA DULCIS Linn. 
Table Island and Great Coco; abundant in the clearings on both 
islands; introduced. 
An American weed, now cosmopolitan in the ti’opics. 
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