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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



tores" and is placed in the group of "Fundadores." Numerous 

 reductions of Rumphian species had already been made in Stick- 

 man's dissertation on the Herbarium Amboinense (1754), in the 

 1759 reprint of this work,* and in the tenth edition of the Systema 

 Naturae (1759) , most of which are repeated in the second edition 

 of the Species Plantarum; in all there are about 275 references 

 to the Herbarium Amboinense in this work. Additional refer- 

 ences are included in Linnaeus's later works. 



The first attempt to interpret the species described and figured 

 in the Herbarium Amboinense as a whole in terms of the binomial 

 system of nomenclature was made one year after the system was 

 proposed. This was nominally the work of Olaf Stickman, one 

 of Linnaeus's pupils, but it is manifest that the actual work was 

 largely that of Linnaeus himself. Stickman's dissertation^ as 

 originally published, is a very rare work, and copies of it are 

 known in but few libraries. Rouffaer and Muller J cite only 

 two copies, one in the University Library at Upsala, Sweden, 

 and one in the Konigliche Hof- und Staatsbibliothek, Munich. 

 There is a copy in the library of the Linnean Society, London; 

 one in the library of the British Museum; one in the library of 

 the New York Botanical Garden; and one in the private library 

 of Dr. J. H. Barnhart, of the New York Botanical Garden ; and I 

 was so fortunate as to secure a copy from a European dealer for 

 our work on the Amboina project. Doubtless other copies will 

 be found in the older European libraries. 



In this work an attempt was made to reduce only those species 

 figured by Rumphius in volumes one to six of the Herbarium 

 Amboinense; volume seven, the Auctuarium, was not printed 

 until the year following the appearance of Stickman's work and 

 is, accordingly, not included. The species are arranged in the 

 Rumphian sequence, giving the Rumphian name, the numbers 

 of the plates, and the binomial equivalents of the various species 

 so far as they could be determined. About three hundred of the 

 forms figured by Rumphius are referred to binomials already 

 proposed in the first edition of the Species Plantarum of Linnaeus, 



♦Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 112-143. 



t Herbarium Amboinense, | quod | consens. experient. Facult. Medicae 

 | in Regia Academia Upsalensi, | sub praesidio | viri nobilissimi atque 

 experientissimi, | Dn. Doct. Caroli | Linnaei, | . . . . | publico examini 

 submittit, | Alumnus Regius I Olavus Stickman, | Smolandus. | In auditorio 

 Car. Majori d X. Maji, | anno MDCCLIV | Upsaliae | . . . . (1754) 

 IV + 1-28. 



t Eerste proeve van eene Rumphius-Bibliographie. Rumphius Gedenk- 

 boek 1702-1902 (1902) 196. 



