Amboinense, p. 33, 1917, I have some reservations about this but will 

 defer to those who are far more accomplished Linnaean scholars than I 

 am, and will, until shown otherwise, continue to ascribe these names to 

 Linnaeus . 



The names under consideration here are certain generic names , 

 binomials, and trinomials, that were published effectively by Rumphius 

 prior to 1753 in his 6 volumes of the Herbarium Amboinense, 1741-1750, 

 and which were republished in 1754 in Olaf Stickman ? s dissertation on 

 Rumphius Herbarium Amboinense. . This is a very small booklet that lists 

 a selection of Rurnphius f generic names , binomials and trinomials , j indi- 

 cating, where possible, their equivalents in Linnaeus T own system, or, 

 faiiing that, in a few cases, equivalents in the Hortus Malabaricus of 

 Rheede or in other works . For a considerable number of them, no equiva- 

 lent was found, and rny presumption is that Linnaeus ivas content with the 

 Ru:-phian names and the illustrations and descriptions that accompanied 

 them in their original place of publication, the Herbarium Amboinense. 

 In the introduction to the dissertation Linnaeus (or Stickman) gave 



