398 
Species. 
Africa. 
India. 5° 1 
M 1 
i. Asi 
ce 
d 
id 
o 
6 
a 
hH 
Malaya. [ ^ I 
Australia. I 
Polynesia. 
America. I 
Narcondam. 
Barren Island. | 
45. Ficas brevicuspis 
[><] 
X 
Ficus callosa ... 
X 
X 
X 
— 
— 
— 
— 
Ficus hispida 
X 
X 
X 
X 
_ 
— 
X 
X 
Ficus grisea ... 
— 
— 
X 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
Antiaris toxicaria 
_ 
X 
X 
X 
_ 
— 
— 
— 
50. Artocarpus Gomeziana ... 
— 
[^] 
X 
— 
X 
Zingiber sp. ... 
— 
- 
[xj 
- 
— 
— 
- 
— 
— 
Costus speciosus 
X 
X 
X 
— 
— 
* 
— 
— 
Smilax macrophyllus 
- 
X 
X 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
Asparagus racemosus 
— 
X 
X 
X 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
65. Dracaena spicata 
X 
X 
X 
— 
_ 
— 
— 
Amorphophallus sp. 
— 
— 
[X] 
Pothos scandens 
X 
X 
X 
— 
X 
— 
Tlie most remarkable feature of the list is that it gives us for the 
first time a well-defined group of species none of which extend to 
America or even to Polynesia, and only two of which extend to Africa, 
though no fewer than 15, or 27 per cent., extend to Australia. The 
remaining 40 are confined to South-Eastern Asia. As regards their 
more local distribution there, 17, or 31 per cent., are confined to lands 
lying to the east of the Sea of Bengal, while 3 more occur in Ceylon 
but not in India, a circumstance which perhaps indicates that birds 
which feed on these species pass from Malaya to Ceylon but do not 
visit India. If this be the case the agency of frugivorous birds may 
partly explain the existence of a Ceylon element in the flora of the An¬ 
damans generally, a circumstance that has, as already said, been made 
the subject of remark by the late Mr. Kurz, {Report on the Vegetation of 
the Andaman Islands, p. 15) ; this point will be more fully discussed 
below. 
As many as 36 species, or 64 per cent., occur both in Indo-China 
and in Malaya ; as 15 pass southward to Australia while 14 pass northward 
to South China, and 5 pass southward to Malaya without going north to 
Indo-China, while 5 reach the islands from Indo-China without extend¬ 
ing to Malaya, we may conclude that, though this element in the flora is 
distinctly non-Indian, the Indo-Chinese and Malay-Australian influences 
are, so far as it is concerned, evenly balanced. 
Since the active agency in the dispersal of these species is that of 
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