xi.c.e Merrill: Reliquiae Robinsonianae 301 



about the lower one-fifth, oblong-elliptic, obtuse or rounded, 

 about 1.5 mm long, not punctate. Anthers oblong, about 0.8 

 mm long, inserted near the base of the corolla. Ovary ovoid, 

 small, the style rather stout; ovules few. Fruit immature, 

 ovoid, 2 mm long. 



Amboina, Hitoe messen, Rel. Robins. 1880 (type), November 1, 1913, 

 climbing in trees at an altitude of about 200 meters. Apparently referable 

 here is Rel. Robins. 1881, from the same locality, November 5, 1913, the 

 leaves broadly elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 8 to 10 cm long and 5 to 8 cm 

 wide. 



A very characteristic species, readily recognizable by its elliptic, entire, 

 obtuse to broadly rounded leaves, its axillary many flowered panicles and 

 sessile flowers. Following Mez's key it falls near Maesa coriacea (A. DC.) 

 Mez, but it is totally different from that species, and perhaps should be 

 placed near Maesa sarasenii Mez. The ovules are apparently few in num- 

 ber, so that the species is somewhat anomalous in the section Eumaesa. 



MAESA RUBIGINOSA Blume ex Scheff. Comm. Myrsin. Archip. Ind. (1867) 

 26. 



Amboina, Amahoesoe, Rel. Robins. 1876, September 16, 1913, hanging 

 over cliffs at an altitude of 40 meters. 



Originally described from specimens cultivated in the botanic garden 

 at Buitenzorg, Java, originating in Amboina. The species is well charac- 

 terized by its few-flowered inflorescences, these sometimes reduced to 

 few-flowered fascicles or the uppermost flowers sometimes solitary. 



ARDISIA Swartz 



ARDISIA AMBOINENSIS Scheff. Comm. Myrsin. Archip. Ind. (1867) 75. 



Amboina, Hitoe messen and Hitoe lama, Rel. Robins. 1883, 1884, October 

 11 and 13, 1913, in forests, altitude 125 to 200 meters. 



Ardisia amboinensis Scheff. is known only from Amboina. Mez " has 

 placed it in the section Stylardisia, but judging from our material, in full 

 anthesis, I would place it in the section Acrardisia, as the styles are shorter 

 than the petals in bud ; Mez does not describe the flowers, having apparently 

 seen only a fruiting specimen. The specimens cited above agree very 

 closely with his description and I am confident that they represent Scheffer's 

 species. 



ARDISIA RUMPHII sp. nov. § Pimelandra. 



Arbor circiter 5 m alta ramulis junioribus inflorescentiisque 

 ferrugineo-pubescentibus exceptis glabra; foliis chartaceis, ob- 

 longis, usque ad 37 cm longis, obscure obtuse acuminatis, basi 

 leviter abrupteque decurrento-acuminatis, integris, nitidis, sub- 

 tus puncticulatis, nervis primariis utrinque circiter 16, subtus 

 prominentibus, curvatis, obscure anastomosantibus ; inflorescen- 

 tiis axillaribus, corymboso-paniculatis, submultifloris, dense 



10 Engl. Pflanzenreich 9 (1902) 110. 



