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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



is added to include the Palmae and "Singulares." In the treat- 

 ment of the species figured in volumes one to six of the Herbarium 

 Amboinense, the 1759 reprint differs from the original edition 

 in certain respects. Some corrections are made in the indicated 

 binomials, and a few new ones are added. The number of 

 Rumphian species reduced in this work is about 330, an increase 

 of about 30 over the original edition, but this includes 12 from 

 the Auctuarium that were not included in the 1754 edition. As 

 in the original edition, certain binomials which have not been 

 listed in Index Kewensis, appear in the 1759 reprint. Among 

 these are Muntingia bartramia, Phaseolus cylindricus, Panicum 

 vulpinum, Justicia bivalvis, Sesuvium portulacastrum, Varneria 

 augusta, Lagerstroemia chinensis, and Canarium indicum. In 

 the present work Linnaeus has been quoted as the authority for 

 these binomials, as well as for those appearing in the original, 

 1754, edition. 



BURMAN 



Burman, in editing the Herbarium Amboinense, added various 

 notes on the identity of the Rumphian species and at the end of 

 volume seven, the Auctuarium (1755), added his "Index univer- 

 salis in sex tomos et auctuarium herbarii Amboinensis CI. Georgii 

 Everhardi Rumphii," in which he reduced about 311 of the 

 Rumphian species to the Linnean binomial system, for the most 

 part following the reduction proposed by Linnaeus in Stickman's 

 dissertation issued the preceding year. Here he also published 

 a few new binomials typified by Rumphius's figures, which have 

 been entirely overlooked by all later authors. Those in the 

 vegetable kingdom are Mespilus silvestris Burm., Phaseolus 

 marinus Burm., Pepo indicus Burm., and Aurantium maximum 

 Burm. This index consists of twenty pages, unnumbered, the 

 species being alphabetically arranged under their Rumphian 

 names with references to the book, the chapter, and the volume 

 in which they are described. 



In 1769 a second edition of this index was issued by Burman, 

 under the title — 



Index alter in omnes tomos Herbarii Amboinensis CI. G. Everhardi 

 Rumphii quern de novo recensuit, auxit et emendavit Joannes Burmannus, 

 M. D. Botanices Professor, Academiae Caesareae Naturae Curiosum, nec 

 non Regiae Scientiarum Academiae Upsaliensis membrum. 



It consists of twenty-two unnumbered pages, folio, and is 

 apparently a rare work. Rouffaer and Muller * in their biblio- 

 graphy cite an example of it which they examined in the library 



* Rumphius Gedenkboek 1702-1902 (1902) 200. 



