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I. concinna Br. А shrub or small tree, flowers red or yellow. 
Rather rare, Chan Chu Kang, Chua Chu Kang. 
d; € Vahl. A tree with small yellow flowers. Rare, 
n Chu Kang. . 
I. amena Wall. Shrub with orange red flowers not common, 
Serembun, Chua Chu Kang. 
Pavetta indica L. * Jarum-Jarum." A large bush with greenish 
white flowers, Kranji, Bukit Timah, ‘Chan Chu Kang. 
Morinda citrifolia L. “ Mengkudu.” A small rarely large tree 
with white flowers, and large pulpy semitransparent 
heads of fruits. The bark of the root is used for dyeiug 
and tanning nets, also in native medicine. The fruit is 
used as soap and eaten. It is very doubtfully wild, 
though it is very common in waste ground. 
M. tinctoria Roxb. “Mengkudu Hutan.” А smaller 5 
plant with narrower leaves possibly the wild form of 
the preceding. Common every where im secondary jungle. 
M. persicefolia Ham. Singapore (Maingay); not seen. 
М. gagasan L. Climbing or erect shrub, heads of fruit small 
ange. ery abundant in open country near the sea. 
Chanel Pulau Ubin. 
M. sp. A tall climber with slender stems зача leaves and 
small orange heads of fruits. Garden jun 
M. sp. "Sulong Akar Darat.” A — с "e thick 
eaves pubescent at the back, flower d 
white with a long tube and ubescent te: ж fra- 
grant. Borders of woods, Changi, Pulau Ubin, Pulau 
ekong. 
Prismatomeris aliidiflora DENT A pretty shrub with white 
flowers. n places near the coasts, also in swampy 
woods. Changi, Bajau, "Selitar, near the Bungalow 
Gynochthodes sublanceolata Miq. A climber with white flowers 
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