54 THE FLORA OF SINGAPORE. 



G. fibrocorpa Mast. Small tree with orange fruits. Rare, 

 Cluny Read 



G. lalifolia Mast. A large shrub with orange pear-shaped 

 fruits about r.n inch long, and pleasantly flavoured. 

 Flowers 3 r ellow. Tanglin, Bukit Timah, Chan Ohu Rang. 



The absence of the common peninsular shrub G. panicu- 

 lata Roxb. is very remarkable. 



Tiiumfetta rhomboidea Jacq. A common weed with small yel- 

 low flowers and prickly fruit. Waste ground, Tanglin, 

 Changi, etc. 



T. pilosa Roth. Singapore (King) not seen. 



(Corchorus capsularis L. "Jute." Bukit Timah (Dr. King). 



C. acutangulus Lair. Weed with yellow flowers, rare. Chan 

 Chu Kang. 



Echinocarpus sp. Tree with white flowers in axillary panicles. 

 Very rare, Kranji (No. 6174). 



Elcvocarpus. Trees with white flowers, often showy, and blue 

 or green drupes. " Mendong.'' 



E. ganitrus Roxb. Cultivated only. The globose oily blue 

 fruits contain a hard tubercled seed much in request by 

 Tamils as a bead. It is usually 5 grooved, but very 

 rarely a G grooved one is found, which commands as 

 high a price as 5 dollars. 



E. parcifolius Wall. Common, Tanglin, Changi, etc. 



E. stij.ulavis Bl. Very common, Tanglin, etc. 



E. salicifolitis King. " Jurunong Padi." Not common, Bukit 

 Timah, Selitar. 



E. paniculatu* Wall. Common. Kranji, Bukit Mandai, Selitar. 



E. petiolalus Wall. Common, Tanglin, Selitar, Changi. 



E. Grijitfhii Mast. Common, Tanglin, Selitar. 



