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EURYA NITIDA Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. (1839-42) 115, t. 17, f. 1-2. 



Amboina, Hitoe messen, Rel. Robins. 180S, October 18, 1913, in forests, 

 altitude about 475 meters. 



The specimen agrees quite closely with the description and with numerous 

 specimens of what is supposed to be Eurya nitida Korth. from the Malay 

 Peninsula and Java, except that the sepals are slightly apiculate. A critical 

 revision of the genus may show that the specimen cited above is really 

 distinct. It has been sunk in Eurya japonica Thunb. by some botanists, 

 and by Dyer, in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 1 (1874) 284, it is treated as Eurya 

 japonica Thunb. var. nitida (Korth.) Dyer. 



GUTTIFERAE 



GARCINIA Linnaeus 

 GARCINIA sp. 



Amboina, Hitoe lama, Rel. Robins. 1781, November 6, 1913, in forests, 

 altitude about 75 meters, locally known as mangostan utan. 



The specimen has young flowers and is scarcely in condition for accurate 

 identification. It very strongly resembles Garcinia dulcis Kurz, but the 

 branchets and branches are terete, not at all angled, while the leaves 

 have numerous scattered glands on the lower surface distinctly visible 

 to the naked eye. Perhaps an undescribed species. 



VIOLACEAE 



RINOREA Aublet 

 RINOREA AMBOINENSIS sp. nov. § Prothesia. 



Frutex circiter 1.5 m altus, ramulis junioribus inflorescen- 

 tiisque leviter adpresse pubescentibus exceptis glaber; foliis 

 chartaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, integris, usque ad 33 

 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 16, prominentibus, apice 

 longissime acuminatis, basi leviter inaequilateralibus, acutis ad 

 subrotundatis et leviter decurrento-acuminatis ; cymis axillari- 

 bus, circiter 2 cm longis, paucifloris, sepalis oblongo-ovatis, cir- 

 citer 3.5 mm longis, acutis; staminibus inclusis, liberis, appen- 

 dicis late ovatis; ovario hirsuto. 



A shrub about 1.5 m high, glabrous except the slightly pu- 

 bescent branchlets and the appressed-pubescent inflorescences. 

 Branches terete, brownish, glabrous, the branchlets minutely 

 puberulent. Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, entire, charta- 

 ceous, shining, pale-olivaceous when dry, up to 33 cm long and 

 12 cm wide, gradually narrowed above to the long-acuminate 

 apex, the acumen stout, acute or apiculate, base slightly inequi- 

 lateral, acute to somewhat rounded and more or less decurrent- 

 acuminate; lateral nerves about 16 on each side of the midrib, 

 prominent, the reticulations subparallel, distinct; petioles 1.5 

 to 2 cm long. Cymes axillary, appressed-pubescent, about 2 



