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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



appear in the second part. Unlike his predecessors who had 

 attempted to interpret the Rumphian species, he did not confine 

 his comments to the species figured, but also attempted to account 

 for those described but not figured. 



HENSCHEL 



Henschel's * attempt to interpret the species described by 

 Rumphius is merely an enumeration of the Rumphian species by 

 volumes in the order in which they appear in the Herbarium 

 Amboinense, with their binomial equivalents, so far as deter- 

 mined, in parallel columns. He considers chiefly the species 

 figured by Rumphius. The enumeration, a mere compilation, is 

 very faulty and untrustworthy, as is to be expected, for 

 Henschel was not a botanist and had no personal knowledge of 

 the Indo-Malayan flora. New binomials, with one or two excep- 

 tions, do not occur in this work, nor is there any critical discus- 

 sion of the various species. The Clavis Herbarii Amboinensis 

 of Henschel in arrangement compares closely with the sequence 

 of Rumphian species published in the present work at the end 

 of the systematic enumeration (p. 511 to 547), except that 

 through the work of numerous botanists on the Malayan flora 

 a very much higher percentage of the Rumphian species can now 

 be placed than Henschel found possible. Henschel's work is, 

 in general, of very slight value, so far as it applies to the species 

 Rumphius described and their binomial equivalents. 



HASSKARL 



The most pretentious attempt heretofore made to interpret 

 the species described in the Herbarium Amboinense is that by 

 Doctor J. K. Hasskarl, entitled Neue Schliissel zu Rumph's 

 Herbarium amboinense.f In this work the species are arranged 

 under the Rumphian names in Rumphius's sequence, citing the 

 page and plate numbers for each, the native names, and a 

 chronological arrangement of the reductions proposed by various 

 authors, with citations of literature. Hasskarl's work is scarcely 

 more than a compilation, but is a remarkable example of patience 

 and perseverance on the part of the author. The mere matter of 



*Henschel, A. G. E. T. Clavis Herbarii Amboinensis pp. 139-202, in his. 

 Vita G. E. Rumphii, Plinii indici accedunt specimen materiae Rumphianae 

 medicae clavisque herbarii et thesauri Amboinensis. (1833) XIV + 1-216. 



t Abhandlungen der Naturf. Gesellschaft Halle 9 (1866) 145-389; Re- 

 print (1866) 1-247. 



