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' ^ Gkaham Lusk 



Cornell University Medical College, 

 New York City 



THE BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF 



AMBOINA BY THE BUSEAU 



OF SCIENCE, MANILA 



George Eberhard Eumpf (Latin Eumphius) 



died in Amboina, Netherlands East Indies, in 



the year 1702, after a period of residence there 

 of about thirty years. Some years after his 

 death there was published in Amsterdam, 

 under the editorship of J. Burmann, his great 

 botanical work, the " Herbarium Amboinense." 

 This monumental work consists of six folio 

 volumes, comprising about 1,660 pages and 

 669 plates with approximately 960 figures, and 

 with the accompanying " Actuarium " was 

 published during the years 1741 to 1755. 

 Linnseus did not receive a copy of the pub- 

 lished parts until too late to incorporate the 

 plants described in his " Species Plantarum." 

 The work, then, as to nomenclature is pre- 

 Linnsean, although binomial designations for 

 the plants described are abundant in it. 



The " Herbarium Amboinense " has at all 

 times since its publication been a work of 

 great botanical interest and is to-day one of 

 the basic works for the student of the Ma- 

 layan flora. For the proper interpretation of 

 many species proposed by later authors, by 

 citation of Eumpf, reference to the " Her- 

 barium Amboinense " is absolutely essential. 



In 1754 Olof Stickman, one of Linnaus's 

 students, published his dissertation entitled 

 " Herbarium Amboinense," a small pamphlet 

 of 28 pages, which was reprinted by Linnasus 

 in 1759 in his " Amcsntates Academicse," IV., 

 pp. 112-143. In this work somewhat over 300 

 of the plants figured by Eumpf are reduced to 

 species proposed by Linnseus in the first edi- 

 tion of his "Species Plantarum" (1753), or, 

 by citation, are made the types of new ones. 

 Constant references are made by Linnasus to 

 the " Herbarium Amboinense " in his later 

 works, so that very many of Eumpf's crude 

 figures have become, by citation, the actual 

 types of many Linn^an species. Later still 

 other such species were proposed by Eox- 

 burgh, and by other authors, and Eumpf's 

 plates are constantly being cited by modern 

 authors in monographs and in papers on the 

 Indo-Malayan flora. 



Eumpf's plates, in many cases decidedly 

 crude, being the only means by which a large 

 number of proposed species can be inter- 

 preted, various attempts have been made more 

 definitely to settle the status of the plants 



