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^OTANT OP TUP LACGAPTVPS. 
Systematic List of Laccadiye Plants. 
Subjoiued is given an enlarged edition of the Laccadive list 
already published by the writer * This new list includes, besides 
the species recorded in the former one, all those contained in the 
collections made during the two visits paid by the Investigator subse¬ 
quently to its publication and all those mentioned by Lieutenant 
Wood, and Mr. Robinson in their accounts of the Archipelago. As 
a complete set of the specimens collected by Mr. Hume, Dr. Alcock 
and Mr. Fleming is preserved in the Calcutta Herbarium, the writer 
has been in a position to authenticate the whole of their species 5 
these are indicated in the list by an (!). Those names to which no 
mark of verification is appended belong to the species mentioned by 
Lieutenant Mood and Mr. Robinson, mentioned but not collected 
by Mr. Hume, or enumerated in Mr. Fleming’s list of cultivated 
plants, without specimens having been sent. In the preparation of the 
list, the writer has received much assistance from Dr. G. King, f.r.s., ; 
Mr. W. B. Hemsley, f.r.s., who has kindly verified some dubious 
species atKew; Mr. J. F. Duthie, f.l.s., who kindly named the 
glasses; Mr. G, Massee, f.ls., who equally kindly named the 
Lichens and Fungi, and Mr. G. R. M. Murray, p.l.s., who 
kindly named an Ascothamnion {A. intricatum) collected by 
Dr. Alcock in the lagoon at Kadamum, and who has, from these 
specimens, been enabled for the first time to state definitely that 
Aknot a vegetable at all, but is the same thing as 
Zoohotryon pelluciduvi of Ehrenb., an animal. He wishes to 
express his great obligation to all these gentlemen, and especially 
to his friend. Dr. A. Alcock, of the Indian Marine Survey, for the 
enthusiasm with which he has taken up the subject of the Laccadive 
Flora and for the thoroughness with which he and his assistant 
Mr. J. Fleming, Apothecary on board H. M. I. M. Investigator, 
have made the collections on which this list is mainlv based. 
To Captain Hoskyn,t Commander of the Investigator, who has 
* “ Scientific Memoirs by Medical Officers of tbe Army of India,” Part V. 
t The sad death of this talented Officer, which has occurred since the last of these 
collections was made, has removed from the Naval Service one of its most brilliant 
surveyors. The event is one to be deplored not alone by his own Service, and not only 
by those outside it who, like the writer, had the privilege of enjoying his personal 
friendship, but by every zoologist and botanist in the East, because of the 
interest he took in, and the great practical sympathy he always showed for, every 
branch of biological research. 
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