BOTANY OF THE LOCCADIVES. 
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intentionally introduced. As with Lippia nod^ora, Roxburgh includes 
this in the Ilortus Bengalensis, but excludes it from the Flora Indka. 
117. Premna integrifolia Linn., Mantiss. 252 ; Hook, f., Flor. 
Brit. Ind., iv., 574. P. serratifoUa Linn., Mantiss. 253. F, spinosa 
Roxb., Flor. Ind., hi., 77. 
Kadamura ; “ forming thickets,” Hume ! “ very common ; a little 
way inshore,” Fleming ! Kalpeni ; on the shore, Alcock ! Minikoi ; 
coast zone, Fleming ! 
A littoral and sub-littoral species, very abundant on Indian, Indo- 
Chinese, Andamans, Nicobars and Malay coasts. 
118. Clerodendron inerme Gaertn., Fruct., i., 271, t. 57, f. 1 ; 
Roxb., Flor. Ind., hi., 58 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 589. 
Kalp4ni ; plentiful on the coast, Alcock ! 
A littoral species abundant on Indian, Ceylon, Andamans and 
Indo-Chinese coasts. 
LABIATiE. 
119. Ocimum gratissimum Linn., Sp. PI. 1197 ; Roxb., Flor. 
Ind., hi., 17 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 608. 
Bitrapar ; growing near the Pir’s tomb, Alcock! Kadamum ; 
Fleming ! Kalpeni ; Alcock ! Minikoi ; Fleming I 
One of the T 2 dsi plants, occasionally cultivated, but generally, 
occurring as a weed of waste places throughout tropical Africa, 
the Mascarene Islands, India, Ceylon and Malaya. It also occurs 
as a weed in America, but there it is probably only an escape 
from cultivation and not an indigenous plant. Here, where 
the people are Mohammedans, the true or sacred Tulsi (^Ocimum 
sanctum') is not found at all, this—the Ram Tulsi —taking its 
place. In Car Nicobar and in Burma, where also one Tulsi is as 
good as another, the people not being Hindus, it is the Gidal 
Tulsi —the Basil ( 0. Basilicum) —that is usually found as a weed 
near native dwellings. 
120. Anisomeles ovata R. Br. in Ait., Hort. Kew. (ed. ii.), ii., 
364 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 672. Nepeta indica Linn., Sp. 
PI. 571. Ballota disticha Linn., Mantiss. 83. Ajuga distecha 
Roxb., Flor. Ind., hi., 2. 
Kadamum ; Fleming ! Akati ; Fleming! Minikoi ; Meming ! 
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