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A weed of waste places and also, as here, a comman littoral species throughout 
tropical and subtropical Africa, the Mascarene Islands, Arabia and South-Eastern 
Asia ; here almost without doubt a sea-introduced species. 
127. Achyranthes aspera Linn: Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind,, iv, 730. 
VAE. typica. Achyranthes aspera Linn., Sp. PI. 204 ; Koxb., Elor^ 
Ind., i, 672. 
Minikoi; Fleming ! 
A weed of waste places, cosmopolitian in the tropics. 
VAE. porphyristmhya Hook, f., Elor. Brit. Ind., iv, 730. Achyranthes 
yorphyristachya. Wall., Cat. 6925. 
Bitrapar; Hurrml Bangaro ; Hume! Kalp(ini; Alcoch! KUtan ; Fleming! 
Kadamum ; Fleming ! Akati; Fleming ! Minikoi; Fleming ! 
A weedy climber common in the littoral zone of the Indian and Malayan 
coasts ; also in the moist valleys of Sikkim, Chittagong, etc. 
The common weed is only reported from Minikoi, from which island also 
(and from most of the others) comes the usual littoral condition which in habit 
simulates A. Mdentata, Bl., but which has the fimbriate staminodes of A. aspera. 
Yfliile A. aspera is undoubtedly a plant introduced unintentionally by man, 
there is no doubt that here, as often elsewhere, A. porphyristachya is a sea- 
introduced plant. 
POLTaONACEAS. 
128. Polygonum barbatum Linn., Sp. PL, 362 ; Hook, f., Flor. 
Brit. Ind., v., 37. P. rivulare Koenig in Eosb., Flor. Ind., ii, 290. 
Kalpcni; Alcoch ! 
In wet places tlnoughout tropical Asia and Africa. 
PIPEEACEiE. 
129. PiPEE Betle Linn., Sp. PI. 28 ; Eoxb., Flor. Ind., i, 158 ; Hook, 
f., Flor. Brit. Ind., v, 85. 
Akati; Kiltan ; Kadamum ; Minikoi; in all the islands cultivated and, as 
is the custom generally in Southern India, trained round the trunks and over 
the branches of the Agati {Serslania grandifiorci). “ This plant is an object of 
great care” {Fl&ming), 
Native of Malaya, where, and in the hotter parts of India and Ceylon, it is 
cultivated. 
LAUEINEiE. 
130. Cassytha filiformis Linn., Sp. PI. 35 ; Eoxb., Flor. Ind., ii, 
814 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., v, 188. 
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