124 THE FLORA OF SINGAPORE, 
for blackening the teeth. Very common is woods and 
thickets. Tanglin, Bukit Timah, Changi, 
CI. d m Wall А small shrub about 4 feet high with nod- 
о heads of white flowers surrounded with numerous 
fed sepals. Drupe black. Very common, Tanglin, Gar- 
den jungle, Chan Chu Kang, Татрепіз. 
Cl. panicu’atum 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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A pode iota Ridl. * A slender shrub, with the stem hollow * 
with ants’ nests. Panicles large, flowers orange. 
А har ide some plant, rare, streams at Choa Chu Kang. 
Several cultivated kinds also occur in waste ground near 
villages; such are €. fallax Lindl. C. Pirmi VaLl. С. 
/тафтапв Vent. and C. siphonanthus Br. which is cultivated 
by Klings, who use the leaves for smoking instead of 
Hemp, and call it Ganja. 
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1. iroreflorum Hassk. А white flowered species, introduced 
into Java from Singapore about 1858, I know nothing 
of, and Cl. Codi сакин Walp. “Singapore Lo bb” 
and Cl. infortunatum Gaertn. mentioned fro ue 
also in Flor. Brit. Ind. I have never met wit 
^phenodesma pentandra Jack, © Akar Sulong.” Not common, 
Changi.. 
E r BI. “ Api-Api.” Very common in mangrove 
g tidal rivers. River Valley Road, Changi, Pulau 
Thai еіс 
ГАВІАТ Ж. 
Coleus veni s pureus Benth. Flowers bright purple. Open 
country. Ang Mo Kio, Chan Chu Kaug. 
Hyptis suaveolens Poit. Very common in waste ground. Sepoy 
Lines, Tanjong Katong, Mt. Faber, Changi, etc. 
