A racket to export one of Sri Lanka's endemic waterplants, by a private concern falsely labelled as "Aponogeton Ulveceae" has been busted by the Customs authorities, the Daily News reliably understands. A consignment consisting ninety boxes of the rare species of Aponogeton (local Kekatiya) containing one and a half metric tonnes (land area 1500 kilometres), of the plants, was detected without the permission of the Forest Conservator for export. The Daily News also understands that this particular private concern had been regularly exporting consignments of rare corals under the guise of "sponges" which incident has also come to light.