18 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 
trees, some Amla {Emhlica officinalis), and a number of Poou-trees 
{Calophyllum inophyllum), ffianted. He further enumerates among 
cultivated vegetables Golocasia antiquorum, which in all the other 
islands appears to be in a ^wild* condition. He notes having 
observed all the sea-shore species obtained in Bitrapar except a 
sedge {Cyperus pachyrhizus), and his specimens include Euphorbia 
Atoto which has not been found on the coasts of any of the other 
islands. i 
/'Mr. Hume’s is the only collection made in Am^ni ; it includes 
/eleven species that may be classed as weeds as well as the following 
/ species that should probably be considered as ‘ escapes from culti- 
/ vation’ :— Datura fastuosa, Physalis peruviana, Mucuna capitata, 
I Clitoria ternatea,and Barter ia Prionitis; all these are garden or hedge 
plants well known in India, here they all appear to be growing in a 
‘ wild ’ state^ 
The Piti ^nd-bank, situated in Lon. 72®35'E. and Lat. 10° 45' N.,, 
is on the extreme southern edge of a large sunken bank twenty 
miles long, that extends to this point from the vicinity of Ameni.'*' 
The rest of the bank carries from six to twenty fathoms of water, the 
snbaerial patch is about 300 yards long and 200 yards across, 
standing about 6 or 7 feet above high-water mark, and is quite 
devoid of vegetation. It evidently occupies the south-eastern 
corner of a sunken atoll, for, whereas on all other sides bottom is 
found at 10 or 12 fathoms, on the south-east side one finds 100 
fathoms close up to the bank and immediately beyond are 
deep-sea soundings. Quite like this bank, it may be remarked, 
is that of Elikalpeni (Lon. 74“ 5' E. Lat. IP 15' N.), a peak about 
35 miles north-east of Anderut, which does not, however, become 
subaerial at all. This peak, the nearest of the Laccadive Group to 
India, is a small dead-coral bank with a few bunches of live-coral 
on it, carrying 7 to 8 fathoms and with no sign of shoal water.t 
Similar also, though of larger size, especially the first named 
of the three, and giving rather deeper soundings, are the dead- 
* Hume, “ Stray Feathers,” vol. vi., p, 453. 
t Carpenter, “Administration Repoi't of the Marius Survey of India,” year 1888-88, 
