BOTAnY OF THE LACCADIVES. 
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Cultivated universally throughout India. Here not cultivated, 
fchotigli perhaps originally intentionally introduced. Native of 
India, but not known truly wild, except in this and similar localities, 
where it cannot possibly be ” indigenous.” 
37. Tephrosia tenuis Wall., Cat. n. 5970; Hook, f., Flor. 
Brit. Ind., ii., 111. 
Kadamum ; Fleming ! Akati; Fleming ! 
A. weed of cultivation hitherto known only from Scinde, Panjab, 
and Concan. 
38. Tephrosia purpurea Pers. : Baker in Hook, f., Flor. Brit. 
Ind., ii., Ud, 
VAR. pumila Baker. T. pumila Pers., Synops., ii., 330. T. 
diffusa W. & A., Prodr. 213. Galega diffusa Roxb., 
Flor. Ind., iii., 387. 
Kadamum; Fleming! Kiltan ; Fleming ! 
A cosmopolitan tropical w^eed ; very distinct from typical 
T. purpurea, and never exhibiting any intermediate states; probably 
quite deserving specific rank. 
39. Sesbania aculeata Pers., Synops., ii., 316; Hook, f., Flor. 
Brit. Ind., ii., 114. Ooronilla aculeata Willd., Sp. PL, iii., 1147. 
jdHschynomene spinulosa Roxb., Flor. Ind., hi., 833. 
Kalpeni ; Alcocli! 
A weed of wet places and rice-fields throughout the tropics of 
the Eastern Hemisphere. 
40. Sksbania GRANDiFLORA Pers., Synops., ii., 316; Hook, f., 
Flor. Brit. Ind., ii., 115. Sesba.n grandijiorus, Poir., Encycl. Meth., 
vii., 127. ^schynomene grandijlora Linn., Sp. PL (ed. ii.), 1050; 
Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii., 331. Agati grandijlora Desv., Jour. Bot., hi,, 
] 20. The Agati Tree. 
Kiltan; Kadamum; Akati; Minikoi; in all four islands planted 
as a support for the Pepper-vines which the people cultivate 
carefully, Fleming. 
Mauritius; India and Ceylon ; Malaya, N. Australia; generally, 
if not always, planted in India, and usually (especially in South 
India) grown for the purpose for which the tree is used in 
these islands {Boxh., FI. Ind., hi,, 332). Native apparently of 
Malaya. 
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