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BOTANY OF THE LACCADIVES. 
Guinea species; in the Calcutta Herbarium there are, however, examples 
of another closely related speeies, with the same hollow branches, coUected in. 
Sumatra by H. 0. Forbes, which were obtained on the volcano of Kaba at 3,500 
feet elevation. Tliis fact, therefore, does not oppose, if it does not corroborate*, the 
surmise that Emnf under ArUr regis has included two trees, one found only on 
the coast {Hemandia peltata) and one found inland and on the mountams 
{Endosp&rmum moliumnum). 
EUPHOEBIACEiE. 
132. Euphorbia Atoto Forst., Prodr. n. 207; Hook, f., Flor. 
Brit. Ind., v, 248. 
Ameni; Hume ! 
A httoral species ; seashores of India, Malaya, H. Australia and Polynesia. 
133. Euphorbia hypericifolia Linn., Hort. Chff. 198 ; Hook, f., 
Flor. Brit. Ind., v, 249. E. parviflora Linn., Syst. Veg. (ed. x), ii, 1047 • 
Roxb., Flor. Ind., ii,, 472. 
Kadamum ; Fleming ! Kiltan ; Fleming ! Minikoi; Fleming / 
A weed of waste places and fields, almost cosmopolitan ; not ocemring in 
Austraha or iu Polynesia. 
134. Euphorbia pilulifera Linn., Amoen. Acad., iii, 114; Hook, 
f., Flor. Brit. Ind., v, 250. E. hirta Linn. Amoen. Acad., hi, 114 ; Roxb 
Flor. Ind., ii. 472. 
Anderut; AlcocJc! Kadamum ; Hume! Fleming! Kiltan ; AlcocTc! Flming ! 
Minikoi; Fleming ! 
A weed of cultivation, cosmopohtan in tropical and subtropical countries. 
135. Euphorbia thymifolia Binm., Flor. Ind. 2 ; Roxb., Flor. 
Ind., ii, 473 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., v, 252. 
Minikoi; Fleming! 
A weed almost cosmopohtan in tropical countries, not found in Austraha. 
136. Phtllaothus Emblica Linn., Sp. PI. 982 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., hi, 
671 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., V, 289. Th.Q Amla. 
Ameni; cultivated, Hume. 
Distributed, wild or cultivated, throughout South-Eastern Asia; here an in- 
tentionahy introduced plant. 
137. Phyllanthus maderaspatensis Linn., Sp. PI. 982 ; Roxb., 
Flor. Ind., hi, 654 ; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., v, 292. P. olcardatus Whld., 
Enum. Hort. Berol, Supph, 65 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., hi, 656. 
Ameni ; Hume! Anderut; AlcocJc! Bitrapar ; Fleming! Khtan ; Fleming ! 
Kadamum ; Fleming! Minikoi; Fleming! 
A weed of dry places and fields throughout tropieal Airioa, Asia and Aus¬ 
traha, probably unintentionahy introduced by man even into the island of 
Bitra, which, though not inhabited, is regularly visited 
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