BOTANY OF THE LACCADIVES. 
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Table I. —List of Laccadive BayiJcs, Beefs and Islands. 
Chain of 
Peaks. 
Name. 
Western. 
Kora.divh . 
Ditto . 
Sesostris Bank-.. 
Ditto . 
Cherbaniani . 
Ditto .. 
Cheriapani . 
Ditto . 
Bihrapar . 
Ditto . 
Pirmalpar . 
Ditto . 
Akati. 
Ditto ...... 
Snhelipar . 
Central . 
Bassas de Pedro.- 
Chitlac . 
. 
Kiltan ....i 
Ditto . 
Kadamum . 
Ameni . 
Piti . 
T)ifitrt . 
Korati ... 
]V1 inilcoi . - . - . 
Eastern . 
Elikalp^ni. 
Anderut . 
KalpAni . 
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Nature. 
Sunken bank of dead coral carrying 23-26 fathoms. 
Sunken bank of dead coral carrying 11-30 fathoms. 
Open reef with three small islets of coral debris 
devoid of vegetation. 
Open reef with (?) several small islets of coral 
debris, devoid of vegetation. 
Keef with one formed-island (Bitra), clothed with 
vegetation and with coco-nut trees in centre, but 
without inhabitants. 
Open reef with one large subaerial sand-bank 
(Pirmalla), devoid of vegetation. 
Keef with three islands, one inhabited (Akati), and 
two clothed with vegetation but not inhabited 
(Rangaro and Tangaro), also a sand-bank without 
vegetation (Akati Peti). 
Keef, probably open, with one island (Suheli), prob¬ 
ably clothed with vegetation but not inhabited. 
Sunken bank of dead coral carrying 20-30 fathoms. 
Reef with one island (Chitlac), inhabited. 
Reef with one island (Kiltan), inhabited. 
Reef with one island (Kadamum), inhabited. 
Inhabited island (Ameni) occupying the whole reef. 
Sunken bank of dead coral carrying 6-15 fathoms, 
with one subaerial sand-bank (Piti), devoid of 
vegetation. 
Reef with one inhabited island (Korati) and a 
sand-bank devoid of vegetation ( Korati Feti). 
Inhabited island (Minikoi) ; in this island the popu¬ 
lation is Maidive, though the island is politically a 
Laccadive one: in position this atoll is inter¬ 
mediate between the Laccadive and Maidive 
Archipelagos. 
Sunken bank of dead coral carrying 7-8 fathoms. 
Reef with one inhabited island (Anderut). 
Reef with one inhabited island (Kalpeni) and a 
small islet (Kalpeni P^ti). 
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