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the swamps, enel to Verbenacee, and has yellow flowers and 
Shoa fleshy frui 
It occurs on the shores of the yore n old trees the wood of th 
trunk near the ground often becomes transformed in inne t, changing in 
colour from white to reddish black. These bits of probably diseased 
wood burn readily, with a slight odour, and are used locally as a substi- 
tute for the true Garoo wood, which occurs in Hainan, and is supposed 
to n the Dmm of a different tree, Aquilaria Agallocha or A. 
malacc 
Pohgisiia glabra, a leguminous tree on Takow spit. 
Terminalia Catappa, a tree with large oval leaves, occurring in the 
same localit 
Tou "icforiía sarmentosa, a common climber, with white cymose 
flivdhs and white fruit. An allied species, T. argentea, with very thick, 
velvety, silvery leaves, occurs as a small tree at South Cape. 
Ipomea biloba, a cotiinta creeper in the sand, with bifid leaves and 
bright purple flowers. 
Vitex trifolia, common creeper m small blue flowers. I have 
never seen it but in its unifoliolate v. 
Canavalia obtusifolia, a large dabas — shrub, with 
beautiful red flowers, and large ‘broad thic 
Vigna luted, similar, but with pale yellow der flowers, and narrow 
round pods 
“inca rosea, periwinkle, is naturalized on Takow s 
Lumnitzera racemosa, a low shrub with white Pen occurring in 
the mangrove swamps. 
Euphorbia toto, a sea-sand spurge. 
Tribulus erac with yellow flowers and spiny fruit, prostrate in 
sandy places 
l sym: acidula, a low shrub with white flowers, occurring on wave- 
washed rocks. 
Spinifex squarrosus, a dioecious grass. 
A Sedum with yellow flowers on sea-side rocks. 
Sev Keenigtt, a shrub. 
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The common large trees in the neighbourhood of Takow are :— 
Mangifera indica, the eC wild E dcr 
Buchanania arboresc ens, a akin the mango in foliage and’ 
inflorescence, but with small inedible fruit, lw as the * shan shuai.” 
Nephelium longana, the lung-an, wild ard cultivated. Lung-ans are 
a staple export. 
Ficus retusa is the common banyan tree her 
cus wightiana, a less common banyan tres; d is readily distinguished 
by the inflorescence occurring on the leafless part of the boughs. 
Ficus beecheyana, occurs as small shrub and tree of 20 feet or morein 
height; large pubescent leaves 
Fi cus leucantatoma, al variable in stature, with large glossy leaves 
and flattened globular inflorescence 
Broussonetia papyrifera, che paper mulberry, not utilized in 
ormos 
Er thri ina indica, a thorny tree, with large rege _ and 
=e ee red papilionaceous flowers, known as the “ t ing." 
Macaranga Tanarius, with large peltate leaves, Bond as ims ** hsieh. 
t‘ung.” 
