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rarely visited and not previously botanically explored. Having obtained 
the permission of Dr. G. King, f. r. s., the writer was enabled to make 
this visit in the “ Nancotvry ” during March and April 1891. After visit- 
ing Karcondam the steamer was required at Port Blair in order to proceed 
to Little Andaman and Gar Nicobar, and Col. Cadell not only permitted 
the writer to accompany the vessel there, but also, at the suggestion of 
Mr E. H. Man, kindly directed her to proceed to Batti Malv, a small 
island without inhabitants and very difficult of access, lying 18 miles 
south of Car Nicobar. After returning from Batti Malv the steamer 
took the writer to Barren Island. 
The botanical results of the visits to Narcondam and Barren Island, 
which together formed the central feature of the tour, and the botanical 
exploration of which was the writer’s main purpose, will, it is hoped, 
soon be made public. The results of the visits to the islands of Little Anda¬ 
man, Car Nicobar and Batti Malv have been dealt with separately and are 
now laid before the Society. They have been treated in this fashion, 
partly because these visits formed an episode in the tour apart from its 
main object, but chiefly because the lists are less exhaustive, owino- to 
the short time available for collection in each place, than the correspond¬ 
ing lists for Barren Island and Narcondam will be. 
The details of the visits are as follows:—the '‘Nancowry” left 
Port Blair on the moiming of Good-Friday, reaching Bomliya Creek, 
where two natives of Little Andaman, who had been visiting Port Blair, 
were to be landed, about 2 p. m. As the state of the tidal currents made 
it inadmissable to leave again till 5-30, the writer had an opportunity of 
spending three hours collecting at the mouth of the creek and for a 
mile or two along the north coast of the island to the east of this. 
The jungle behind the beach forest was too dense and the time avail¬ 
able too short to admit of his penetrating any distance into the interior. 
The island of Little Andaman, as seen from the sea, presents a 
somewhat different appearance from Great Andaman. Instead of beino- 
diversified by ridges and valleys and isolated hills, it has a long, low 
uniform rounded outline similar to that of Sentinel Island as seen froin 
the top of Mount Harriet near Port Blair, and to that of Car Nicobar. 
It appears, however, to be uniformly covered with forest and to have 
none of the bare grass-heaths that characterise Car Nicobar. The 
creek at which the writer landed is the princip il one on the north coast 
of the island. It derives its name from an Andamanese word meanino* 
“ flies,” and certainly these insects abound there in great numbers and 
are very troublesome. There is nothing in the mangrove swamp vege¬ 
tation to distinguish this from similar places in the Andamans and very 
little in the beach-forest to characterise the island except that Gasu- 
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