Flora of 'N'arcondam and BaiTen Island 
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Plants collected in N'arcondam and Barren Island. 
I. MENISPERMACE^. i. 
1. Anamirta Cocculus W. & A. Nai’ccndam (1). 
India, Indo-Cliina, Malaya. 
2. Cyclba peltata H. F. & T. Barren Island (1). 
Andamans, N’icobars, Burma, 
3. Antitaxis calocarpa Kurz. N^arcondam (2), common. 
Andamans and N’icobars. 
II. CAPPARIDE^. II. 
4. Capparis sepiaria Linn,, var. grandieolia Kurz. N'arcondam (3) ; 
Barren Island (2) ; common. 
Andamans, Burma, Malaya; tbe variety does not occur in India. 
6. Capparis tenera Dalz., var. latieolia H. f. & T. Narcondam (4). 
Andamans, Tenasserim; tbe variety does not occur in India. 
III. VIOLARIE^. — . 
6. Alsodeia bengalensis 'Wall. Narcondam (5). 
Assam, Burma, Andamans, Nicobars. 
IV. GUTTIFER^. —. 
7. Calophyllum inophyllum Linn. Narcondam (6) ; beach-forest. 
Mascarene Isds.; S. E. Asia ; Australia; Polynesia. 
V. MALVACE^. III. 
8. Hibiscus tiliaceus Linn. Narcondam (7); Barren Island (3). 
Cosmopolitan on tropical sea-shores. 
9. Thespesia populnea Corr. Narcondam (8). 
On tropical coasts throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. 
10. Bombax insigne Wall., var. polystemon Prain; var. nov. caudice 
armata, foliolis 7-9, sessilibus anguste lanceolatis, subtus glaucescenti- 
bus, staminibus plurimis (circa 700); capsula 3'5 — 4 poll, longa: flori- 
bus rubris. Narcondam (9); common. 
India, Indo-China, Andamans, Malaya ; this variety endemic. 
There has been some confusion as regards the Asiatic species of Bombax; the 
writer, therefore, takes this opportunity of giving diagnoses of all of them. His 
excuse for doing so in this place, is that it was the difficulty of localising this tree 
that led to the study of the genus. 
Bombaces Asiatics. 
Arbores (ordinis Maltacearum) grandes, saltern jnniores caudice armatse foliis 
digitatis ; calyce coriaceo ; stylo simplici; frnctu capsnlari, segmentis 5 ; seminibus 
lana endorcarpii involntis. 
Fructus segmentis crassissime coriaceis, seminibus sarcinis 
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