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leaves, white flowers and red fruits. Edges of jungle, 

 not rare. Chan Chu Rang-, Bukit Mandai, Jurong. 



Ci/cl a pelt at a Hook. fil. var. Arnolti. Miers. A slender climber 

 with orbicular ovate hairy leaves, small hanging* panicles 

 of green flowers and white flat fruits. The natives boil 

 the leaves with sugar and make a kind of jelly not re- 

 markably delicious. Common in hedges, Tangiin, Chua 

 Chu Kang, Pulau Ubin. 



NYMPHEACEiE. 



Barc'aya Motleyi Hook. var. Kunstleri, " Daun Kalapa." This 

 grows in shallow muddy streams in thick jungle. It has 

 round dark-colored leaves, and inconspicuous dull color- 

 ed flowers, greenish or brown outside and yellow and 

 pink within. Capsule pink. Local, Bukit Timah, Aug 

 Mo Kio. 



{Nelum'ium speciosum Willd. The Lotus is often cultivated by 

 the Chinese, but not wild here.) 



Cappapjde.e. 



Cleome aculeaium Jacq. CI. Ilullettii. King. An introduced thorny 

 weed with white flowers, native of the West Indies, 

 occurs round Tangiin and Kallang. 



CI. viscosa L. A sticky weed about a foot tall, with yellow 

 flowers. o?curs near the town ra^ually. 



Capparis Finlaysomana Wall. A thorny climber with large 

 white flowers with a yellow spot in the throat, and a 

 sausage-shaped red fruit, Rare. In sandy spots near 

 Ohangi. 



Yiolacejf:. 



The only genus represented here is the shrubby alsodeia 

 with small yellow and white flowers. 



Alsodeia echinocarpa Korth. " Sebilek. " A shrub or tree let 

 with ovate serrate leaves, small white flowers, and cap- 



