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Aq derat; AlcocJc! Kalpeni; Alcoclc! Akati; Fl&ming! Minikoi; Fleming ! 
A littoral and estuarine species, extending from the Mascareue Islands to 
India, Malaya and ISTorth Australia. 
169. Cyperus dubius Rottb., Descr. et Ic., 20, t. 4, f. 5 ; Roxb., 
Flor. Ind., i, 189 ; Clarke, Ind. Cyperus 197. 
Minikoi; Fleming / 
A littoral species, extending from Indo-China and Malaya to India, Ceylon, 
the Mascareue Islands and the African Coast. 
170. Kyllinga brevifolia Rottb., Descr. et Ic., 13, t. 4, f. 3. 
Minikoi; in the sward imderneath the coco-nut trees, Fleming ! 
Cosmopohtau in the tropics. 
171. Fimbristylis diphylla Yahl., Enmn., ii, 289. Scirp.is 
miliaceiis Roxb., Flor. Ind., i, 227. 
Kalpeni ; AlcocJe! 
The sohtary specimen is not a good one, and the identification is not absolute¬ 
ly certain. The plant is, however, not any of the other Cyperacem enumerated. 
Common on seashores and in wet places tlnmighout the tropics. 
GRAMINEiE. 
172. Fanicum sanguinale Linn., Sp. PI, 57. 
VAR. ciliare. P. ciliare Retz., Obs., iv, 16 ; Roxb., Mor. Ind., i., 293. 
Akati; dwarfed specimens, Fleming ! Minikoi; very abundant, Fleming ! 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics ; the variety present here seems, however, confined 
to the Eastern Hemisphere. 
173. Oplismenus Burmanni Beauv., Agrost., 54. Panicum Bur- 
manni Retz., Obs., hi, 10 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., i, 298. 
Akati ; Fleming ! Kadamum ; Fleming ! Khtan ; Fleming ! Mmikoi ; 
Fleming ! Everywhere abundant, as is the next species. 
Cosmopohtan in tropical and subtropical countries. 
174. Oplismenus compositus Roem. & Schult., Syst., h, 484. 
Panicum compositum Linn., Sp. PI. 57. P. lanceolatum Roxb., Flor. Ind., , 
294. 
Ameni; Hume / Akati; Fleming ! Minikoi; Fleming I 
Widely distributed throughout the tropics of the old world. 
175. Setaria verticillata Beauv., Agrost., 51. Panicum vertidl- 
atum Liim., Sp. PI. (ed. h) 82 ; Roxb., Flor. Ind, i, 301. 
Ameni; a crop, v&rnac. “ badag,” RoUnson. Bangaro ; Hume ! Kadamum ; 
Fleming / KRtan ; Fleming ! If cultivated at the time of Mr. Robinson’s vis^ c 
(1844), apparently not cultivated when Mr. Flume was at the Laccadives (1876) ; 
its presence m the uninhabited isknd of Bangaro indicates, moreover, that 
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