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Medical Officers of the Army of India.

TABLE II.—Distribution of Laccadive Plants—continued.

NAME.

India.

Ceylon.

Nicobars.

Andamans.

Burma.

Malacca.

Malay Archipelago.

Australia.

Polnesia.

America.

Africa.

Mauritius.

Keeling Islands.

Chagos Islands.

Stachytarpheta indica.

...

Premna integrifolia..

...

Leucas aspera...

...

Boerhaavia repens..

...

Aerua lanata...

...

Achyranthes aspera..

...

Hernandia peltata..

...

Euphorbia Atoto..

...

Euphorbia pilulifera..

...

†Phyllanthus Emblica.

...

Phyllanthus maderaspatensis

...

Acalypha indica..

...

†Ricinus communis..

...

Ficus bengalensis..

...

†Artocarpus incisa..

...

†Musa sapientum..

...

†Agave vivipara (?)..

...

†Dioscorea sativa..

...

Gloriosa superba..

...

†Areca catechu..

...

†Cocos nucifera..

...

Pandanus odoratissimus.

...

†Colocasia antiquorum.

...

Cyperus arenarius..

...

Cyperus pennatus..

...

Oplismenus compositus.

...

Setaria verticillata..

...

Spinifex squarrosus..

...

Andropogon contortus..

...

Apluda aristata..

...

Cynodon dactylon (?).

...

Eleusine ægyptiaca..

...

†Eleusine Coracana(?).

...

Lepturus repens..

...

Nephrodium molle..

...

Nephrolepis tuberosa.

...

The cultivated species are not taken into account in the calculations given
below. Even when they are excluded, we find that 18 species extend to Africa,
America, Australia, and Polynesia, as well as to Asia; four species extend to all the
great geographical divisions except Polynesia; one to all the divisions except
Australia. Three that occur in Asia, Africa, and America are excluded both
from Australia and from Polynesia.

On the other hand, 11 that are common to all the other divisions are absent
from the New World, and no fewer than seven of these belong to the coast flora