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Kurz’s description would suit them very well except that the transverse 
veins are, in the Great Coco plant, even moi’e prominent than in L. 
speciosa; the Ugula however is very different. 
Mr. Kurz does not describe the Ugula in Jj. speciosa ; it is, however, 
shewn (perfectly accurately) in t. 13, f. 5. as cordate and entire—just 
as it is in L. Jenkinsiana. In the species under review the Ugula is 
larger, ovate orbicular, and armed at the margin with small but hard, flat 
black blunt spines, a character exhibited by no flabellate-leaved palm of 
which specimens are preserved in Calcutta Herbarium. 
263. Calamus andamanicus Kurz. 
In all the islands, common. 
Andamans. 
264. Calamus tigrinus Kurz, 
In all the islands, common. 
Andamans, Tenasserim. 
265. Cocos NDCIFERA Linn. 
In all the islands, extremely abundant. Probably not truly in¬ 
digenous, though perhaps not intentionally introduced. It has long been 
known that this palm occurred on these islands; the name “ Cocos 
Islands,” applied to the group, is of older date than 1652, and it has 
often been the subject of remark that while this is so and while every 
island in the Nicobars, even uninhabited ones like Batti Malv, has 
Coco-nut trees, the species is altogether absent from the intervening 
Andaman islands. Kurz, in Forest Flora Brit. Burma, says the Coco¬ 
nut occurs on north-east Andaman also, but the writer is unable to 
ascertain on what authority, and the statement is contradicted by the 
oflhcers of the settlement at Port Blair who alone know the coasts 
of the group intimately. There are here and there individual trees on 
the Andaman coasts now; Dr. Alcock tells me there is one on South 
Sentinel; the writer saw one on Rutland Island; Captain Simpson, 
Assistant Port Officer, Madras, tells me he recollects being in a small 
bay in one of the islands of the Eastern Andaman Archipelago where 
there are some trees. But all these are quite recent introductions 
and are mainly due to the humanitarian efforts of the officers of the 
Andamans who plant them when they visit various places along the 
coasts; the instance quoted by Captain Simpson is, however, attributed 
to a wreck. No explanation based on the set of currents in these seas 
is sufficient to explain the peculiar distribution of the Palm, and the 
writer is inclined to believe that the presence of the species in the Coco 
Islands is due to the wreck of some Coco-laden craft on their coasts. 
Once established the species spreads with great rapidity. On Barren 
Island one tree was known in 1881; in 1891 thirteen were counted of 
