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I can give no description sufficient to distinguish this form from 
P. cerus. The spines are commonly curved, and the colour of the 
leaves is more yellowish, but also often as in P. verm. The stems are 
very thick, and commonly prostrate. The fruits and flowers are un- 
known to me, but Mr. Teijsmann assures me that he has seen them, 
and found them quite different. 
3. P. spurixs, Rumph. Herb. Amb. iv. 142. t. 75. Folia 2-3 ped. 
kfflga, 2 poll, lata, dorso a medio tantum spinosa, spinis non spines- 
centibus sed rotundatis et glabris ; spadix masc. (uti in P. furcato) 
cms human, crassus ; syncarpia Durionis magnitudine, rotunda v. ellip- 
tic^ gnseo-viridia v. fuscescentia ; drupae pyramidatse, 4-6-gona;, 
apice breviter pungente-acuminatae (sec. Rumph.). 
Hab. Moluccos. 
I previously thought it might be possible to unite P. spurius, 
flumph., with P. odoralissimus, Linn., but the colour of the drupes, 
which are said to be spinous-pointed, does not agree quite well. Ge- 
nerally there seems to be some mistake witli reference to the plates, 
ihe frmt of Folium Bagea marilimum of t. 81 has evidently nothing 
to do with the plate 80, where a single drupe of that kind is figured, 
agreeing so exactly with my P. dubins that there remains no doubt 
about the correctness of the identification. Moreover, his description 
agrees. The figure, however, on t. 81 represents P. odoratissimus, 
WOgh the stigmata are somewhat too strongly expressed. With re- 
erence to t. 75 (P. spurius), I remark that the drupes are all simple, 
n gured with indication of a 5-6-angled form. In the description, 
P- 14^, however, is said, "Maturus vero in multa aperitur ac dehiscit 
gmenta, quorum quodvis ex variis constat pyraniidibus, quae non 
separantur, nisi vi," etc. This evidently agrees better with plate 81. 
1 suspect, therefore, that plate 81 may belong to his plate 74 (P. 
terus )> the only obstacle being the ramification. These, however, are 
y sus P'cions, the truth of which can be made out only on the classical 
s Pot with the aid of the nativ 
4 - P. mcntanns, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 161 (cf. P. helicopns, 
Kurz) . 
Nab. Moluccos. 
5 - P. sylvestris, Rumph. iv. 145. t. 77 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 161 
e names. 
r . foetidi 
"AB. MoluCCOS. 
