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leaves, white flowers and red fruits. Edges of jungle, 
not rare. Chan Chu Kang, Bukit Mandai, Jurong. 
Cycl.a peltata Hook. fil. var. Arnotti. Miers. A slender climber 
with orbicular ovate hairy leaves, small hanging panicles 
of green flowers and white flat fruits. The natives boil 
the leaves with sugar and make a kind of jelly not re- 
markably delicious. Common in hedges, Tangtin, Chua 
Chu Kang, Pulau Ubin. ° 
NYMPHEACE. 
Barve'aya Motleyi Hook. var. Kunstleri, “ Daun Kalapa.” This 
erows in shallow muddy streams in thick jungle. It has 
round dark-colored leaves, and inconspicuous dull co'or- 
ed flowers, greenish or brown outside and yellow and 
pink within. Capsule pink. Local, Bukit Timah, Ang 
Mo Kio, 
(Nelumlium speciosum Willd. The Lotus is often cultivated by 
the Chinese, but not wild here.) 
CAPPARIDE®. 
Cleome aculeatum Jacq. Cl. Mullett. King. Anintroduced thorny 
weed with white flowers, native of the West Indies, 
occurs round Tanglin and Kallang. 
Cl. viscosa L. A sticky weed about a foot tall, with yellow 
flowers, occurs near the town casually. 
Capparis Finlaysoniana Wall. A thorny climber with large 
white flowers with a yellow spot in the throat, and a 
sausage-shaped red fruit. Rare. In sandy spots near 
Changi. 
VIOLACEA. 
The only genus represented here is the shrubby alsodetu 
with small yellow and white flowers. 
Alsodeia echinocarpa Korth. “ Sebilek.” A shrub or treelet 
with ovate serrate leaves, small white flowers, and cap- 
