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In the two subjoined lists the plants obtained during this short tour 
are enumerated. The first list gives, for the sake of convenience, those 
collected in Little Andaman. Species for which their occurrence here 
is the first indication of their presence in the Andaman group are disting¬ 
uished by an astei’isk. 
The second list gives the plants obtained in Car Nicobar and in 
Batti Malv. Those for which this is the first record of their occurrence 
in the Nicobars and which are not gxve'o.inih.Q Enumeration of the planh 
of the Nicobar Islands by Mr. Kurz {Journ. As. 8oc. Beng., xlv, pt. 2, 
p. 115—164) are similarly distinguished. 
I. List oe plants collected at Bomlita Creek, north end of 
Little Andaman. 
GUTTIFER^. 
Calophyllum inophtllum Linn. 
MALVACEAE. 
Hibiscus tiliaceds Linn. 
Thespesia populnea Linn. 
STERCULIACE^. 
Sterculia rubiginosa Yent., var. glabrescens King. (Sterculia 
mollis Kurz in Jour. As. Soc. Beng., xlv, pt. 2, 120 not of Wallich.) 
MELIACE^. 
5. Carapa obovata Blume. 
Having seen both G. obovata Bl., and G. malaccensis Lamk. in situ 
and examined them as they grow, it is very difficult for the writer to 
give his assent to the proposition that treats the two as conspecific. 
G. moluccensis is common on rocky coasts, while G. obovata is confined to 
muddy flats, in which it is common, and to mangrove-swamps, of the 
vegetation of which it forms an integral portion. There is no diflS.culty 
with the large suites of specimens that are preserved in the Calcutta 
Herbarium in distinguishing the one plant from the other, and the re¬ 
sidents of Port Blair who know both find it impossible to understand 
why botanists should wish to believe them to be the same. It may be 
that their differences, so palpable to the untrained eye, are altogether due 
to the environment of the two being so different; this, however, if it be 
a fact, can only be demonstrated by experiment and the omis probandi 
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