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Great Coco; near south end of island 
beside some shelter huts used by 
coco-nut collectors. 
Both islands, in the clearings and also 
at south end of Great Coco near the 
shelter huts. 
Table Island, in the clearing. 
Table Island, clearing, common ; Great 
Coco, rare in the clearing, also a few 
tufts among droppings of cattle on 
a bare hill at south-west corner of 
the island. 
Table Island ; lighthouse clearing, still 
rare. [All the Cyperaceos and Gra~ 
mineoe may have been introduced by 
birds.] 
Of the above, nineteen are species which are, or may be, cultivated 
for economic or aesthetic reasons—the economic plants being Hibiscus 
Sahdariffa (the Rozelle), Hibiscus Ahelmoschus (the Musk-mallow), iRorw- 
ga pterygosperma (the Horse-Radish tree), Phaseolus sp., Tamarindus 
indica (the Tamarind), Carica Papaya (the Papaw), Ipomoea Batatas 
(the Sweet- Potato), Solanum Melongena (the Bringal), Capsicum mini- 
mtim (the Bird’s-Eye Chillee), Musa sapientum (the Plantain), Cocos 
fnucifera (the Coco-nut) ,/PawC'Mm ciliare, colonum and Helopus (three 
' wild fodder-millets). ) Ten of these have undoubtedly been intentionally 
introduced—one Cthe Tamarind) certainly has not, and the three fodder 
grasses may have come as weeds, or equally probably, may have been 
inti-oduced by grain-eating birds. The aesthetic plants are Nymphoca rubra, 
Crotalaria serieea, Ipomcea coccinea, Gelosia cristata, and Gomphrena glo- 
bnsa. Crotalaria serieea may have been involuntarily introduced, the 
others almost certainly have been brought intentionally. The other 
seventeen are, or may be, weeds, but there is every probability that five 
of them, Urena lobata, Vernonia cinerea, Adenostemma visocosum, Aniso- 
meles ovata, and Boerhaavia repens do not owe their presence here to 
human agency. 
Of the introduced economic species three are evidently unfitted to 
survive under the conditions to which, when abandoned, they are exposed. 
The Rozelle succumbs to climatic influences, the Sweet-Potato and the 
Plantain are destroyed by animals. On the other hand the propagation 
of two of these species — the Papaya and the Bird’s-Eye Chillee—is re¬ 
markable both for its extent and rapidity, and for the fact that the 
flavour and pungency of the fruit of these species remains undimi¬ 
nished. 
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* Panicura ciliare. 
Panicum colonum. 
* Panicum Helopus. 
.S.'S. * Eleusine indica. 
* Eleusine regyptiaca. 
