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roots. It is not cultivated, however, in Anderat, and as it is a common littoral 
species throughout the Andamans and Nicobars, it is here quite possibly a sea- 
introduced species. 
COMMELYNE^. 
158. Aneilema ovalifolium Hook, f., ex 0. B. Clarke in DO. 
Monogr. Phan., iii, 218. 
Minikoi; Fleming! 
A herbaceous weed of jungles and grassy places confined to Southern India. 
159. Cyanotis cristata Poem. & Schult., Syst., vii, 1150. Comme- 
lina cristata Linn., Sp. PI. 42. Tradescantia imhricata Eoxb., Flor. Ind., 
ii, 120. 
Kadamum ; Fleming I KUtan ; m grass along with Leucas aspera, Flemmg ! 
Minikoi; on ground and also epiphytic on Cocos nmijera, Fleming ! 
A weed of grassy places in the Mascarene Islands, India and Malaya. 
Palmed. 
160. Aeeca Catechu Lmn., Sp. PI. 1189 ; Eoxb., Flor. Ind., iii, 615 ; 
Watt, Diet., i, 291. The Betel-nut Palm. 
Ameni; cultivated, RoUnson, Hume. Anderut; cultivated. Wood, AlcocTc. 
ICltau ; does not thrive, RoUnson. Minikoi ; cultivated, Fleming. 
Cultivated in tropical countries. 
161. Cocos nucifera Lmn., Sp. PI. 1188; Eoxb., Flor. Iiid., iii, 614. 
The Coco-nut Palm. 
Ameni; RoUnson, Hume. Anderut ; Wood, AlcocTc. Akati; Fleming. 
Bangaro ; Hume. Bitrapar ; RoUnsoji, Hume. Chitlac ; of slow growth and 
not productive, RoUnson. Kadamum ; RoUnson, Hume, Fleming. Kalpeni, 
AlcocTc. Kiltan ; RoUnson, Hume, AlcocTc, Fleming. Koivati; Hume. Minikoi ; 
Fleming. 
Lieut. Wood’s list gives the coco-nut as present on all the islands except 
Kalpeni Feti and Akati Feti, which are mentioned as mere sand-banks, but the 
sand-banfe of PirmaUa and Pitti and the coral islets on Cherbaniani and—if, 
indeed, there are islets there—on Cheriapani reefs are quite devoid of vegetation 
and if visited at aU by the islanders are visited for the purposes of fisliing or egg¬ 
collecting, not for coco-nuts and coir. Bitra, however, which is uninhabited, has 
coco-nuts and is visited on account of these by people from the northern islands. 
The coco-nuts there, from their position as described by Eobinson and Hume 
and from the accounts of the people, are evidently only planted. Bangaro and 
(apparently) Tangaro, two uninhabited islands on the Akati reef, have coco-nuts 
clearly, from Hume’s account of the former, sea-introduced and not planted. 
Whether there are coco-nuts on Suheli is not clear j accordmg to Wood’s list, 
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