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A native of Polynesia and Eastern Malaya, occasionally cultivated in the 
hotter parts of India. The Laccadive Archipelago must be near the northern 
limit of its successful cultivation, a fact that is corroborated by the evidence 
given above of the want of success, and the small extent of its cultivation in 
important islands hke Kiltan and Akati. 
149. Aetocaepus integeifolia Linn, f., Suppl. 412; Eoxb., Flor. 
Ind., iii, 522 ; Hook, f., Mor. Brit. Ind., v, 541 ; Watt, Diet., i, 330. The 
Jacli-fnuit. 
Anderut; a stately-looking tree, with dark green foliage not unlike the 
broad-leafed ehn. Wood. 
Dr. King, to whose attention the passage in Lieut. Wood’s paper has been 
brought, suggests that the notice refers most probably to the Jack. The tree is 
generally cultivated throughout the hotter parts of India and Indo-Chma and 
tliroughout Malaya ; it is said by Beddome to be truly wild in the Western 
Ghats above the Malabar Coast. That its cultivation should not have spread 
in the Laccadives is not at aU surprising; doubtless the islanders generally view 
the Jack, as those of Kiltan, according to Mr. Hume {Stray FeaiTm's, iv, 437), 
regard the Bread-fruit : trees that are aU very well in then- way, but consider¬ 
ing that, instead of fruiting aU the year round hke the coco-nut, they ah flower 
and fruit together, and then fruiting season lasts at the outside only two months 
out of twelve, they are hardly worth the trouble of propagating. 
150. Fouzolzia indica Gaud. : Wedd. in DO. Prodr., xvi, pt. i, 220 ; 
Hook, f., Plor. Brit. Ind., v, 581. TJrtica suffruticosa Koxb., Plor. Ind., hi, 
584. 
VAE. typica. P. indica Gaud, in Ikeycinet, Voy., Bot. 503. 
Kalp4ni; AlcocTc! Kiltan; Flaming ! Akati; Fleming ! Kadamum ; Fleming! 
Minikoi; Fleming I 
A weed of cultivation common throughout tropical and subtropical Eastern 
and South-Eastern Asia. 
VAE. alienata Wedd. in DO. Prodr., xvi, pt. i, 221. P. alienata Gaud. 
in Freycinet, Voy., Bot. 503. 
' ' Minikoi; Fleming f 
A common Indian form of the same weed. 
Monocotyledones. 
SCITAMESTE^. 
151. Musa Sapientum Linn., Syst. Yeg. (ed. x), ii, 1303 ; Ptoxb., Flor. 
Ind., i, 663 ; Watt, Diet, v, 290. The Plantain. 
Anderut; cultivated. Wood. Ameni; cultivated, Rodinson, Kiltau ; cultivated, 
Hume. Kadamum ; four plants seen near some deserted huts, evidently planted, 
Fleming. Minikoi; cultivated, Fleming. 
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