BOTANY OF THE LACCADIVES. 
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( Akati; Fleming ! Kadamnm ; Fleming ! Miaikoi ; Fleming ! 
A common grass in Indian fields and waste places.^ 
^191. Iiepturus repens R. Br., Prodr. Plor. Kov. Holl., i, 207. 
Bangaro ; Hume ! Bitrapar ; Fleming ! Minikoi; Feming ! 
A littoral species, extending from Polynesia and Australia to Ceylon, the 
Laccadives and the Mascarene Islands. 
CRVFTOGAIVIIA, 
LYCOPODIACE^. 
192. Psilotum triquetrum Swartz, Syn. Pil., 117 ; Baker, Fern 
Allies, 30. 
Minikoi; Fleming ! 
' Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
FILICES. 
193. Nephrodlum molle Desv., Mem, Soc. Linn,, vi, 258 ; Bedd., 
Ferns of Brit. Ind., 277. Polypodiumparasiticum Liim., Sp. PI. (ed. ii) 1551. 
F.proliferum Roxb., Flor. Ind. (ed. Clarke), 752. 
Anderat; Alcoclc! 
Cosmopohtan in the tropics. 
194. Wephrolepis cordifolia Presl, Tent. Pterid. 79 ; Bedd., 
Ferns of Brit. Ind., 282. Polypodium cordifolium Linn., Sp. PI. (ed, ii) 1549. 
Andemt; Alcoclc! 
Cosmopohtan in the tropics. 
CHARACE^. 
195. Chara sp., Alcock, Adm. Rep. Marine Smwey, 1891-92, p. 10. 
Akati ; in fresh-water tanks, Alcoclc. 
Unfortunately, no specimens were collected. It is not at all improbable that 
ZanicMlia palustris {Naiadacece) may be found associated with Cliara in this 
place ; it often is in similar localities. 
MUSCI. 
196. Calymperes Dozyanum Mitt, in Joirai, Linn. Soc., iii, 
Suppl. 42. C. moUucmse Dozy & Molk, Bryol. Jav., i, 47, t. 37, nec 
Schwaegr. 
Minikoi; Alcoclc! 
Extends from Samoa and the Admiralty Islands to the Philippuies, Java, the 
iVndamans (Great Coco Island, where it is very plentiful), Ceylon, India {teste 
]\Iitten l.c) and Minikoi, where it is plentiful. It is the only moss reported 
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