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Poederia foetida Bl. In the list is identified as P. verticill ita Bl. 

 at Kew. 



Finlaysonia obovata Wall. (Asclepiadece). Tidal Rivers Rochore 

 and Kranji etc. common. This curious plant grows in the 

 form of a creeping shrub in the mud of the rivers, form- 

 ing thick masses, eventually sending up long and climbing 

 and twining stems, very milky when broken, which twine 

 round the bushes for some height. The flowers which 

 are not very commonly produced, are in spreading cymes 

 pinkish. The follicles of the fruit, green tinted with 

 purple, are large and thick. The iiat seeds have a few 

 hairs on the end. 



Wiliughbeia rufescens Dyer. This is the plant mentioned in the 

 previous list as W. sp. near Jlavescens. Changi, Chan Chu 

 Kang and Jurong. 



Gentranthera humifusa Wall. (ScrophuZarinece). A small prostrate 

 plant with yellow flowers, brown in the throat. Rare, 

 grassy spots. Along the Bukit Timah road about the 

 10th mile. Common in Malacca. 



Peronema canescens Jack. ( Verbenacece). A tree with pinnate 

 leaves and corymbs of whitish flowers. It generally 

 grows in damp spots near rivers. It is one of the few 

 trees we have which regularly sheds its leaves completely. 

 Bukit Mandai, Selitar Bungalow and Fort Canning. 



Jasminum anastomosans Wall. (Oleacece). A rather slender climb- 

 ing Jasmine obtained in the Mandai Woods near the new 

 railway appears to belong to the species or at least to be 

 closely allied. It has elliptic lanceolate acute leaves 

 triplinerved rather thin in texture, 3 inches long by one 

 wide, and short petioles. The panicles are axillary with 

 a very slender peduncle an inch long and 3 or -I flowers 

 on slender pedicles J inch long. The calyx has 7 

 linear teeth J inch long, quite glabrous. The corolla is 

 an inch and a half long with a slender tube f inch in 

 length, the lobes narrow linear acuminate ten in number 

 all white. The plant is completely glabrous. T. Anas- 

 tomosans Wall, is a native of India. 



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