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NYCTAGINE^. 
195. Bobrhaavia repens Linn. 
In all the islands, common on every rocky promontory and on all 
the isolated rocks on the reefs not covered by the tides. 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
196. PiSONIA ACULEATA Linn. 
In all the islands, one of the commonest climbers in the beach-forests. 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
197. PiSONIA BXCELSA Blume. 
In all the islands, common in the beach-forests. 
Andamans, Malaya. 
AMARANTACE^. 
198. Celosia cristata Linn. 
Table Island, an escape in the light-house clearing. 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
199. Achtranthes aspera Linn. var. ttpica. 
Table Island and Great Coco, common in the clearings, introduced. 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
var. PORPHTRISTACHTA Hook. f. 
Little Coco, very abundant in the beach-forests; stems 10-15 feet 
long, climbing over the sea-face jungle. A plant in habit remarkably 
unlike the preceding. 
South-Eastern Asia. 
200. Gomphrena globosa, Linn. 
Table Island, an escape, but very plentiful and extending into the 
jungle. 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics ; probably originally American. 
POLYGON ACE Ail. 
201. Polygonum barbatum Linn. 
Great Coco ; this plant fringes the small lake at the north-east cor¬ 
ner of the island, growing partly in and partly out of the water, just 
within it is a floating belt of Panicum Myurus, while outside is a ring 
of Hygrophila quadrivalvis. None occurs in the lake on Little Coco. 
Africa ; India, Ceylon ; Bui-ma, Malaya. 
ARISTOLOCHIACE^. 
202. Bragantia tomentosa Blume. 
Little Coco ; abundant on the interior ridges. 
Tenasserim, Andamans; Java. 
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