27Q others he had no choice, at that time, but to accept Rumphius ' 

 names and the information they conveyed, (the plates with accompanying 

 text) . Tnere is no hint in his lengthy introduction that he rejected 

 them, and certainly it is stretching one's credulity to assume that they 

 were only mentioned incidentally . For what purpose? It would seem, 

 rather, that these were selected for publication because Linnaeus con- 

 sidered that they represented real, recognizable plants, even though he 

 had no personal knowledge of them. I have no suggestion at this time as 

 to whv he listed some and ignored others. Possibly a critical examination 

 of ^uTTrphius ' texts might reveal a reason. 



'Ihese names, with the exception of a few to which there are short 

 footnotes, are only accompanied by the numbers of the plates to which 

 they refer, arranged in six lists under their respective volume numbers . 

 Tn sy have been almost universally regarded as nomina nuda (Merrill (by 

 inference) 1917, pp. 31-34; Bullock, 1959 p. ). To do this was to 



igncre two significant f acts . One is that by virtue of being listed 

 from Rumphius ' Herbarium Amboinense,. the entire subject of the disserta- 



