46 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 
Goodenovie^. 
87. Scaevola Koenigii Vahl, Symb„ iii., 36; Hook, f., Flor, 
Brit. Ind., iii., 421. S. Taccada Roxb., Hort. Beng. 15; Flor. lud,, i., 
527. Lobelia Taccada Gaertu., Fruct., i., 119, t. 25. Lobelia fru- 
iescens Linn., FI. Zeyl. 148. 
Bitrapar; very abundant, Hume/ Fleming ! Kadamum; abund¬ 
ant on the shore, Fleming! Kiltan; in a dense hedge along the 
entire lagoon face of the island, Hume, Alcock! Fleming/ Akati ; 
Fleming / Minikoi; Fleming/ 
A littoral species common on the shores of S.-E. Asia, N. Austra¬ 
lia and Polynesia; also in the Mascarene Islands and Africa. 
Plumbagine^. 
88. Plumbago zeylanica Linn., Sp. PI. 151; Roxb., Flor, 
Ind., i., 462; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iii., 480. 
Ameni; perhaps an escape from cultivation, Hume/ 
Cultivated throughout the tropics of the old world, readily escap¬ 
ing and spreading ; wild in Southern Asia. 
Apocyne^. 
89. Ochrosia borbonica Gmel., Syst. Veg. 439; Hook, f., Flor. 
Brit. Ind., iii., 638. 
Minikoi; Fleming ! 
A littoral species distributed from the Mascarene Islands to 
Ceylon, the Andamans, Nicobars and Malaya; not reported from 
Indian coasts. 
AsCLEPIADEiE. 
90. Calotropis gigantea R. Br. in Ait., Hort. Kew. (ed. ii.), ii., 
78; Hook, f., Ehor. Brit. Ind., iv., 17 ; Watt, Diet., ii., 34. Ascle- 
pias gigantea Willd., Sp. PL, i., 1264 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., ii., 30. 
The Mudar. 
Kadamum ; Hume/ very common in the centre of the island near 
the huts, Fleming / 
A weedy shrub of waysides and waste places throughout South- 
Eastern Asia. It is remarkable that it should be present only in one 
of the islands, and that it should occur only in the neighbourhood of 
the people’s dwellings; these facts appear to indicate that the intro¬ 
duction of the plant has been here due to human agency, and has, 
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