BOTANY OF THE LACCADIVES, 
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them occur both in Africa and in Australia. Indeed, one species, Plmrostylia 
Wightii^ exhibits the peculiarity of being restricted to Ceylon, Southern India, 
the Island of Kadamura and Mauritius ; with this solitary exception, however, 
all the species of this kind occur in Malaya, as well as in India and Ceylon. 
Eeviewing in tabular form the facts indicated in the preceding paragraphs, 
we find the number and proportion of the species that have been certainly, or 
possibly, or probably influenced by the various distributive agencies to be as 
follows :— 
Table IV.—Modes of introduction of Laccadive Plants. 
Introduced by 
Certainly. 
Possibly. 
Probably. 
No. of Sp. 
Per cent. 
No. of Sp. 
Per cent. 
No. of Sp. 
Per cent. 
Man .. 
115 
56 7o 
139 
68 °/o 
129 
63 °/o 
TVifi Rp.a. 
35 
12 7o 
8% 
7 7o 
45 
22 °/o 
41 
20 7o 
Winds . 
16 
18 
9 7o 
17 
8 7o 
Birds. 
15 
21 
10 7o 
19 
9 ° o 
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garden escapes, the majority of which are exotics, as well as the undetermined 
Chara, the general distribution of the Laccadive Floi;^ may be tabulated as 
follows: — 
Table V .— Synopsis of Distribution of Laccadive Species. 
Cultivated species, garden escapes, undetermined species 
66 
31 - 6 °/, 
Cosmopolitan in the Tropics., 
51 
2o*l°, 
Almost so ; present in both Hemispheres... 
Absent from Polynesia only . 
Absent from Australia only .. 
Absent from Australia and Polynesia ... 
Absent from Africa, Australia, Polynesia 
4 
2 
4 
2 
2°/o 
l°/o 
2°/o 
l°/o 
12 
Confined to Old World ... 
In Africa, Asia, Australia, Polynesia 
In Africa, Asia, Australia . 
In Africa and Asia ... 
In Asia, Australia, Polynesia 
In Asia, Australia. 
In Asia, Polynesia . 
Confined to S. E. Asia. 
13 
6-3 
5 
2-2 
19 
9-3 
4 
2 
2 
1 
2 
1 
32 
15-5 
Total, 
77 S7-37<, 
206 100 % 
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