122 THE FLORA OF SINGAPORE, 
J. Gendarussa li. “Ganda Rusa.” A common shrub round 
villages, usually an escape from cultivation. 
Adhatoda vasica Nees. “Singapore, Flor. Brit. Ind.’ Not 
seen even cultivated. 
Peristrophe acuminata Nees. Common herb with pink flowers. 
Ang Mo Kio, Choa Chu Kang, Tanglin. 
P. montana Nees. ‘ Noja.” Flowers pink, larger than the last. 
Leaves used for dyeing eggs, cakes, etc, pink. Tanglin, 
Blakang Mati, Jurong. 
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Lantana Camara LL. ‘ Tahi Ayam.” All over Singapore, very 
cemmon. ‘There are several color varieties, the com- 
monest is orange red color, turning orange yellow when 
passing over; another form is pale pink with a yellow eye 
turning darker pink, and where these two forms grow 
together there is an intermediate or hybrid form. There 
is a slight difference in the form of the lower lip in the 
two forms, in the orange one the lip is shorter and broad- 
er than in the pink one, where it is nearly quadrate, so 
that the pink flower appears more irregular than the 
orange one. ‘lhe plant is a native of South America, 
L. indica Roxb. A smailer shrub with lilac flowers, and dark 
pink fruits. Waste ground near town, abundant, Rochore, 
Kalang, Balestier plain. 
Lippia nodifora Rich. Prostrate herb, flowers lilac. Waste 
eround, Rochore. 
Stachytarpheta indica Vahl.“ Selasih Dende.” Common shrub, 
flowers blue. Waste ground, everywhere. 
GS. mutalilis, much bigger, with rosy flowers, introduced here 
and there.) 
Geunsia farinosa Bl, (Wallich, No. 1836); not seen. 
(Callicarpa Reevesti Wall. Singapore, Murton in FI. Brit. Ind. 
is cultivated only.) 
