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Wtanf op niE Laccadives. 
Kadamum ; interspersed with the patches of wild indigo, Hume ! 
Andernt, perhaps cultivated, Alcoch. Kalpeni; at edges of patches 
of cultivation and probably planted, Alcoch ! Minikoi; Fleming / 
This form of J. coccinea is apparently a native of Southern 
India. It is common in native gardens throughout India and 
Ceylon : the bark of the root possesses valuable antidysenteric 
prop^ties. 
75. Pavetta indica Linn., Sp. PI. 110; Hook, f, Flor. Brit. 
Ind., iii., 150. Ixora paniculata Lamk,, Encyc. Meth., iii., 344. 
Ixora Pavetta Roxb., Plor. Ind., i., 385. 
Kadamum ; plentiful inshore, Fleming ! 
South-Eastern Asia; throughout India and Indo-China, and 
extending from S. China to N. Australia. 
76. MorindacitrifoliaLinn., Ilook.f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iii., 155. 
VAR. hracteata Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iii., 156. M. hracteata 
Roxb., Hort. Beng. 15; Flor. Ind., i., 544. 
Bangaro; Hume! Kalpeni; certainly wild, Alcoch! Kiltan; 
Fleming! Akati; Fleming! Kadamum; Fleming! Minikoi; extre¬ 
mely plentiful throughout the island, Fleming ! 
A purely littoral plant, plentiful on all the Indian, Indo-Chinese, 
Andamans and Nicobars coasts visited by the writer. Here, a.s else¬ 
where, in the region where the plant occurs, it is truly wild, aud has 
doubtless been introduced by the sea; it appears to be equally 
common also on the coasts of the Seychelle islands. Phis form, which 
it may be perhaps more convenient to consider, with Roxburgh, a 
species apart from M. citrifolia, is never cultivated in India except 
{eg., in the Calcutta Botanic Garden) as a curiosity; in Ceylou, 
according to Thwaites, it is both wild and cultivated, and from 
Mr. Fleming’s note this would seem to be the case in Minikoi. In 
Bangaro it must of necessity be just as wild as it is iu the Andamans 
and Nicobai’s, where, even in uninhabited islands, it is not merely, 
as Kurz has said, “'not infrequent,” but is in reality one of the 
chief components of the beach-forest undergrowth behind the 
sea-fence of Fandanus bushes; sometimes it is common farther 
inshore. 
This variety — or species-—is confined to India, Indo-China and 
Malaya, not reaching Polynesia or Australia. 
