BOTANY OFTHE LACCADIVES. 
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Akatl; Fleming ! Klltan; Fleming ! 
Littoral species common on sea-coasts of S. Africa, the Mascarene 
Islands; India, Ceylon; the Malay Archipelago and Australia. 
AmPELIDEjE. 
27. Vitis quadrangularis Wall, Cat. n. 5992; Hook, f., 
Dor. Brit. Ind., i., 645. Cissits guadr angular is, Roxb., Flor. Ind., 
i., 407. 
Kalpeni; Alcock ! 
East Africa ; India, Malaya; common on the sea-shores of the 
Andaman group, where it is unequivocally indigenous. Lawson 
{Flor. Brit. Ind. 1. c.) states that the stems are eaten in curries in 
Ceylon. He does not quote any authority, the statement is certainly 
not derived from Thwaites, who says {Emm PI. Zeylan., 62) that 
the stems are used medicinally. The species is not cultivated in 
Kalpeni; it is most probably a bird-introduced species. 
28. Vitis carnosa Wall., Cat. n. 6018; Hook, f, Dor. Brit. 
Ind., h, 654. Cissus carnosa, Roxb., Flor. Ind., i., 409. 
Kiltan ; A Icock ! Fleming ! 
India and Malay Peninsula ; probably a bird-introduced species. 
Though both Dr. Alcock and Mr. Fleming found it growing 
profusely, Mr. Hume did not meet with it; perhaps, therefore, it is 
a recent introduction, possibly during the interval between 1875 
and 1889. 
SAPlNDACEiE. 
29. Cardiospermum Halicacabum Lmn., Sp. PI. 366; 
Roxb., Flor. Ind., ii., 292 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 670. 
Ammii; Hume ! Kalpeni; Alcock ! 
A weed of road-sides and waste places, cosmopolitan in the 
tropics. 
30. Allophylus Cobbe Blume, Rumphia, hi., 131; Hook, f., 
Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 673. Ornithotrope Gohhe Willd., Sp. PL, n., 
322 ; Roxb., FI. Ind. ii., 268. Ehus Coble Linn., Sp. PI 267. 
Minikoi; Fleming! 
A littoral or sub-littoral species distributed throughout S.-E. Asia 
and N. Australia, but almost certainly a bird-introduced, not a 
sea-introduced, species. 
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