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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



B\ume=Podocarpus blumei Endl. Of the figures cited, "A" is 

 a staminate cone of Agathis alba Foxw. ; "B" is, according to 

 Rumphius, a leaf of the true dammar, Agathis alba Foxw. ; while 

 "C" is said by Rumphius to be a branchlet from a young tree 

 of the female dammar. I can see no reason for considering that 

 Podocarpus blumei Endl. is included in the description of Dam- 

 mara alba Rumph. The leaves of young plants of Agathis alba 

 Foxw. very greatly resemble those of Podocarpus blumei Endl., 

 and it is, of course, possible that the two were confused by 

 Rumphius. 



PINACEAE 



AGATHIS * Salisbury 



AGATHIS ALBA (Lam.) Foxw. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5A (1910) 173, 6 

 (1912) Bot. 167. 



Dammara alba Lam. Encycl. 2 (1786) 259 (type!). 



Pinus abies Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 579. 



Agathis loranthifolia Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8 (1807) 311. 



Abies dammara Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 5 (1817) 35. 



Agathis dammara Rich. Comm. Conif. Cyc. (1826) 93, t. 19. 



Pinus dammara Lamb. Pin. 1 (1803) 61, t. 38. 



Dammara rumphii Presl Epim. Bot. (1851) 236. 



Dammara alba Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 174, t. 57. 



Amboina, Soija diatas, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 220, locally known 

 as dammar puti. 



Dammara alba Rumph. is the whole basis of Dammara alba 

 Lam. Lamarck published the species with Rumphius as authority. 

 It must be interpreted from the Rumphian figure and description 

 and from Amboina specimens, while most of the synonyms 

 cited above must be interpreted wholly or partly from the same 

 data. Warburg, Monsunia 1 (1900) 182, in his attempt to 

 split up the collective species Agathis dammara (Lamb.) Rich, 

 states : "Diese Art kann nur nach der Beschreibung von Rumph 

 rekonstruirt werden, da sicheres aus Amboina stammendes Mat- 

 erial leider nicht vorliegt und die vielfachen in der Litteratur 

 gegebenen Beschreibungen der Sammeltart nach dem verschie- 

 densten Material angefertigt sind." Warburg recognized ten 

 species of Agathis from the Malayan region, but the status of 

 these as valid ones is open to grave doubt. 



Dammara alba mas Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 175, t. 57, f. A-C, referred 

 by Hasskarl, Neue Schiissel (1866) 38, to Podocarpus latifolia Blume, 

 I consider to be Agathis alba (Lam.) Foxw. 



* Retained name, Vienna Code; Dammara Lam. (1786) is older. 



