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Ann. Jard. bot. Btz. I, 43; var. acuminatissima Merr. 

 I.e. 311. — A. eucalyptifolia Zipp. ex Val I.e. 53; 

 Hall, f., I.e. — A. intermedia Griff., Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. XX, no. 6 (nomen nudum); Schauer, I.e. 700; Tare- 

 zaninow, Bull. Soe. Imp. Nat. Mose. XXXVI, II, 226. — 

 A. (Seeura) marina Vierh. in Denksehr. Ak. Wien, 

 Math.-Nat. LXXI, 435, 1907. - A. mindanaense 

 Elmer, Leafl. Phil. bot. VIII, 2868, (1915), ex descr. - 

 A. Oepata Buch-Ham., Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII, 

 221; Hall, f.. I.e. 89. — A. resinifera Forst. Herb. 

 Timor, 74; Spanoghe, I.e. 330. — A. Rumphiana 

 Hallier f., Meded. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 89 

 (1918). - A. spieata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 502 (1891). - 

 A shrub or a small tree of the mangrove-swamps; branch- 

 lets round, with inflorescences and petioles minutely greyish 

 or yellowish farinose; leaves leathery, very variable in 

 form, colour and size, from broadly ovate, to long-lance- 

 olate; base acute or decurrent, apex from round, obtuse, 

 acute, to caudate-acuminate; upper side glabrous, from 

 bright yellowish-green to dark brown when dry; lower 

 side farinose, greyish-yellow or -brown; pairs of nerves 

 5—13, little prominent; 3.5—13.7 cM. long, 1.2— 6.2 cM. 

 broad (see plate III); petioles 0—1.7 cM.; inflorescences 

 capitate or spicate, terminal; heads or spikes axillary, 

 opposite along the branchlets, few (1—27) -flowered; flo- 

 wers sessile, bracts small; the transition'from capitate into 

 spicate inflorescences usually going parallel with that from 

 ovate and rounded leaves into lanceolate and acuminate 

 ones (pi. Ill); calyx in the axil of an ovate, at its base 

 increased and pubescent or subglabrous bract, reaching 



we could find only the name A. tomentosa L. in the „Bijdragen", 821. 

 We think that the error has risen from specimina, on the labels of 

 which we found „Bl." near or under the words „A. tomentosa" (without 

 author). Apparently Hallier thought that „Bl." was the author of the 

 species, whilst it was only the paraph of the collector. 



