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BOTANY OF THE LACCADIVES. 
POLYQALE^. 
5. Polygala erioptera DC., Prodr., i., 326; Hook. £., Flor. 
Brit. Ind., i., 203. 
Kadaraum; Fleming ! The narrow-leaved form (P. Vahliana DC.) 
is alone reported. 
India, Burma, Beluchistan, Arabia, Africa. 
PORTULACE^. 
6 . Portulaca oleracea Linn., Sp. PI. 445; Eoxb., FI. Ind., ii., 
463; Hook. £., Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 246. 
Minikoi; Fleming ! Two very distinct forms are communicated: 
one, the ordinary annual condition; the other, a perennial state 
with very large tuberous roots exactly like those o£ P. tuherosa, 
Roxb., from which, however, it is at once distinguished by its 
opposite flat leaves, and by the denser beard of white hairs on its 
nodal appendages. 
A weed of cultivated ground and waste places, cosmopolitan in 
the tropics. 
Guttiperjc. 
7. Calophyllnm inophyllum Linn., Sp. PI. 513; Roxb., 
Flor. Ind., ii., 606; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 273; Watt, Diet., 
11., 29. The Poon-Spar or Alexandrian Laurel. 
Ameni; planted, Hume ! Kalpeni; apparently indigenous, Alcoch ! 
Akati; planted, one tree only, Fleming! Minikoi; planted, but 
also occurring as an indigenous tree in the coast-zone, Fleming ! 
Cultivated throughout India, Wild on the sea-coasts of the 
Mascarene Islands; India, Ceylon, Andamans; Malaya, N. Australia 
and Polynesia. 
Malvace^. 
8 . Sida humilis Willd., Sp. PL, iii., 744; Roxb., Flor. Ind. 
111., 171; Hook. £., Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 322. 
Kadamum ; Hume ! Fleming ! Akati ; Fleming! Minikoi ; 
Fleming ! 
A field and road-side weed in tropical Asia, Africa and America. 
9. Abutilon indicum G. Don ; Mast, m Hook, f., Flor. Brit. 
Ind., i., 326. 
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