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269. SciNDAPSUS OFFICINALIS Schott, 
In all the islands, common. 
India, Indo-China, Malaya, Andamans. 
270. POTHOS SCANDENS Linn. 
In all the Islands, common. 
India, Indo-China, Malaya, Andamans. 
NAIADACE^. 
271. CtmODOCEA CILIATA Ehrb. ? 
On the reefs of all the islands ; extremely common and forming vast 
submarine meadows. This species is exceedingly common in the An¬ 
damans and has been met with in equal abundance at Rangachang near 
Port Blair (there associated with another species of apparently the same 
genus), at Rutland Island, at Little Andaman (there in company with 
Halophila ovalis), and at Car Nicobar. No flowering or fruiting speci¬ 
mens have yet been reported at Calcutta. This is the plant supposed 
by Kurz {Jour. As. Soc. Beng., xlv, Pt. 2, p. 154) to be a small form of 
Enhalus aceroides. 
272. Zanichellia palustris Linn. 
Little Coco, in the small lake along with Ohara fcatida. 
Cosmopolitan in salt-marshes. 
CYPERACE^. 
273. Ctperus poltstachyus Rottb. 
Great Coco; west coast, rather common on the bare grassy slopes. 
Cosmopolitan. 
274. Ctperus elegans Linn. 
Great Coco; frequent in wet patches in the dense interior jungle. 
India, Indo-China, Malaya, Andamans; America. 
275. Ctperus dilctus Vahl. 
Great Coco ; occasional. 
India, Indo-China, Malaya, Andamans. 
276. Ctperus pennatus Lamk. 
In all the islands, very common on the coast in rocky places. 
Sea-shores of the Indian Ocean. 
277. Kyllinga brevifolia Roxb. 
Great Coco, clearing at north-east corner; Table Island, clearing 
near light-house ; common. 
India, Indo-China, Malaya, Andamans. 
278. Eimbristtlis biphtlla Vahl. 
Table Island and Great Coco, in the clearings ; also on the rocky 
coasts. 
India, Burma, Malaya, Andamans ; Australia, Africa, America. 
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