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leaves, white flowers and red fruits. Edges of jungle, 
not гате. Chan Chu Kang, Bukit Mandai, Jurong. 
oad іры Hook. fil. var. Arnotti. Miers. A slender climber 
orbicular ovate hairy leaves, small hanging panicles 
of bi flowers and white flat fruits. The natives boil 
the leaves with sugar and make a kind of jelly not re- 
markahly delicious. Common in hedges, Tanglin, Chua 
Chu Kang, Pulau Ubin. 
МҮМРНЕАСЕ, 
Jare aya M Hook. var. Nunstleri, “ Daun Kalapa.” This 
grows in shallow muddy streams in thick jungle. It has 
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pink within. Capsule pink. Local, Bukit Timah, Ang 
Mo Kio. 
(Nelum'ium speciosum Willd. The Lotus is often cultivated by 
the Chinese, but not wild here.) 
CAPPARIDER. 
Cleome papi. Jacq. Cl. HTullettii. King. An introduced thorny 
eed w white flowers, native of the West Indies, 
occurs diss Tanglin and Kallang. 
Cl. viscosa L. A sticky weed about a foot tall, with yellow 
flowers, occurs near the town casually. 
Capparis Finlaysoniana Wall. А thorny climber with large 
white flowers with a yellow spot in the throat, and a a 
sausage-shaped red fruit. Rare. In sandy spots n 
Changi. 
VIOLACE®. 
The only genus represented here is the shrubby alsodetu 
with small yellow and white flowers 
Alsodeia ыч pa Korth. “Sebilek.” А shrub or treelet 
with ovate serrate leaves, small white flowers, and cap- 
