124 THE FLORA OF SINGAPORE, 
for blackening the teeth. Very common in woods and 
thickets. Tanglin, Bukit Timah, Changi, ete. 
Cl. deflecwn Wall. A small shrub about 4 feet high with nod- 
ding heads of white flowers surrounded with numerous 
red sepals. Drupe black. Very common, Tanglin, Gar- 
den jungle, Chan Chu Kang, Tampenis. 
Cl. panicu’atwn L. Shrub with brilliant crimson flowers. Man- 
dai, Kranji. Doubtfully wild. 
Cl. villosum Bl. Common shrub with white flowers. Whole 
island. 
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. myrmecophilum Ridl. * A slender shrub, with the stem hollow 
and filled with ants’ nests. Panicles large, Howers orange. 
A handsome plant, rare, streams at Choa Chu Kang. 
Several cultivated kinds also occur in waste ground near 
villages; such are (. fal/aw Lindl. C. squamatum Vahl. C. 
fragrans Vent. and C. siphonanthus Br. which is cultivated 
by Klings, who use the leaves for smoking instead of 
Hemp, and call it (Granja. 
Cl. ivoreforum Hassk. A white flowered species, introduced 
into Java from Singapore about 1855, 1 know nothing 
of, and Cl. Colebrookianum Walp. ‘Singapore Lobb” 
and Cl. infortunatum Gaertn, mentioned from Singapore 
also in Flor. Brit. Ind. I have never met with. 
Sphenodesma pentandra Jack, “ Akar Sulong.” Not common, 
Changi. 
Avicennia officinalis Bl. “ Api-Api.” Very common in mangroves 
and along tidal rivers. River Valley Road, Changi, Pulau 
Ubin, ete. 
LABIAT #. 
Coleus atropurpureus Benth. Flowers bright purple. Open 
country. Ang Mo Kio, Chan Chu Kang. 
Hyptis suaveolens Poit. Very common in waste ground. Sepoy 
Lines, Tanjong Katong, Mt. Faber, Changi, ete. 
