CONTENTS 



Par*. 



Illustrations 7 



Preface 9 



Introduction 11 



The importance of the Herbarium Amboinense 11 



Rumphius and his work ~ 15 



Amboina 18 



The genesis of the plan and the botanical exploration of Amboina 20 



Errors in the interpretation of Rumphian species 27 



The interpretation of Rumphian species as types 29 



The interpretation of the species described in the Herbarium 



Amboinense by various authors 31 



Linnaeus and Stickman 31 



Burman 34 



Buchanan-Hamilton 35 



Henschel 36 



Hasskarl 36 



The present status of Rumphian species 38 



Difficulties in interpreting Rumphian species 40 



Nomenclature 43 



Overlooked binomials 46 



Acknowledgments 50 



Systematic Enumeration 53 



Thallophyta „ 53 



Pteridophyta 63 



Spermatophyta 74 



Gymnospermae 74 



Angiospermae 79 



Monocotyledonae 79 



Dicotyledonae 179 



Species described or mentioned by Rumphius that cannot be 



definitely referred to their proper families 504 



Sequence of Species in Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense with 



their Binomial Equivalents _ 511 



Addenda 549 



Index 551 



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