10 JOVRKAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 
sea. The interior of the island was found to be an almost irapene- 
, trable thicket, largely composed of Gaesalpinia Bonducella bushes.* 
This account of the zone of coco-nuts points clearly to their having 
been here introduced by the sea. 
Tangaro (Tenakerry, Wood), the other minor island on the reef, 
was also visited by Mr. Hume, who describes it as less wooded than 
Bangaro ; he did not collect any specimens. According to Lieut 
Wood’s table this, like the last, is visited on account of its 
cocoanuts, which is doubtless correct. 
On Akati itself Mr. Hume was unable to land, but it was visited in 
1891 by Dr. Alcockand Mr. Fleming. The plants collected—which 
include 32 weeds of cultivation or garden-escapes, and 13 sea-shore 
species, with only one plant (Tylophora asthmatica) that may be a 
wind-introduced species—show that there is no true jungle, but that 
the whole of the island is under cultivation. Mr. Fleming’s list of 
cultivated species includes Galophyllum innphyllum (of which there 
is but one tree, planted) ; Thespesia populnea (planted, but also 
occurring wild); Seshania grandiflora (planted to support the Pepper- 
vine); the Tamarind; the Pomegranate (about half-a-dozen plants 
bearing good fruit); the Papaya; the Sweet-Potato (only one 
small plot); the Bird’s-eye Ohillie (only in a 'wild’ condition); 
Datura (which occurs pretty frequently, but also only in a ' wild’ 
condition); ilfim&t'Z'is Jalapa; the Pepper-vine (an object of great 
care); the Bread-fruit (only one tree, in a garden); Tacca pinnaHJida 
(cultivated only); Golocasia antiquorum (only in a ' wild ’ condition). 
Mr. Fleming’s list omits the Supari {Areca catechu) ; from a similar 
list for Kiltan, where it does occur, it is also omitted, perhaps there¬ 
fore the omission here is only an oversight. The island is covered 
with Ooco-nut palms and there are several large fresh-water tanks, 
paved and terraced and walled with slabs of coral-volite ; in these 
occurs the universal water-weed Ghara.^ 
Due south of Akati, in Lon. 72° 12' E. and Lat. 10° N., lies the 
Suhelipar reef, which is shown on Lieut. Moresby’s Chart as an oval 
. atoll with an opening in the reef at the north-end and with the 
* Hume, “Stray Feathers,” vol. iv., 452. 
+ Alcock, “ Administration Report of Marine Survey of India,” year 1891-2, p. 10. 
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