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LABIATE. 
* OciMUM Basilicum Linn. 
Car Nicobar ; a weed near Kimios village. 
The dispersal of the species of this genus—the Tulsi plants—is some¬ 
what curious. In Kamorta, Katschall and Nancowry, where Hindu 
convicts have been stationed, it is the true or sacred Tulsi (0. sanctum) 
that has become naturalised. Here, where no Hindus have lived, it is 
0. Basilicum that is grown by the natives, to whom one Tulsi is as good 
as another. In the Laccadives, where the people are Mussulmans, 
and to whom the sacred Tulsi does not specially appeal, it is the Bam 
Tulsi (0. gratissimum) that occurs. 
NYCTAGINE.^. 
Boerhaavia EEPENb Linn. 
Batti Malv, on the rocks outside the Pandanus sea-fence. 
* PiSONIA ACULEATA Linn. 
Batti Malv. 
75. * PisONiA ALBA Spanoghe. 
Batti Malv. 
* PisoNiA EXCELSA Blume. 
Batti Malv. 
AMARANTACE.^. 
* Amaeantus spinosus Linn. 
Car Nicobar, near Kimios village. 
* Achyeanthes aspera Linn. 
Car Nicobar, a weed near Kimios village. Only the sea-shore 
variety, (A. porphyristachya Wall.^ has hitherto been known to occur 
in the Nicobars ; it was obtained by Mr. Jelinek of the “ Novara.” 
.^RUA LANATA JuSS. 
Car Nicobar, Batti Malv. 
LAURINE^. 
80. Hernandia peltata Linn. 
Car Nicobar. 
ARISTOLOCHIACE.^. 
* Aeistolochia tag ala Cham. & Schlecht. 
Batti Malv. 
EUPHORBIACE^. 
Euphorbia Atoto Linn. 
Car Nicobar. 
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