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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



neither a Livistona nor a Licuala; the description of the fruits 

 is suggestive of Pholido carpus. Rumphius's specimens were 

 from Celebes, where the palm is known as bissula and metsje. 



PHOLIDOCARPUS Blume 

 PHOLIDOCARPUS IHUR (Giseke) Blume Rumphia 3 (1837) 90 (type!). 

 Borassus ? ihur Giseke Prael. Ord. Nat. PI. (1792) 87 (type!). 

 Pholidocarpus rumphii Meisn. ex Hassk. in Abhandl. Naturf. Gesel- 



lsch. Halle 9 (1866) 154 (type!). 

 Lontarus silvestris altera s. ihur Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1 : 56, t. 12. 



The Rumphian illustration and description typify Borassus 

 ihur Giseke, Pholidocarpus ihur Blume, and Pholidocarpus 

 rumphii Meisn. ; the last does not appear in Index Kewensis. 



BORASSUS Linnaeus 



BORASSUS FLABELLI FER Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 1187. 

 Borassus flab elli for mis Murr. Syst. (1774) 827. 

 Lontarus domestica Gaertn. Fruct. 1 (1788) 21, t. 8. 

 Lontarus domestica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1 : 45, t. 10. 



This was one of the few Rumphian species considered by 

 Linnaeus in the first edition of his Species Plantarum (1753), 

 where, page 1187, he correctly reduced it to Borassus flabellifer 

 Linn., the reduction being repeated in his later writings, Stick- 

 man Herb. Amb. (1754) 6, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 118, Sp. 

 PL ed. 2 (1763) 1657, and generally accepted by all authors. 

 Gaertner, Fruct. 1 (1788) 21, merely substituted the generic- 

 name Lontarus for the Linnean name Borassus, considering the 

 species under the new name Lontarus domestica Gaertn. 



LODOICEA Commerson 



LODOICEA MALDIVICA (Gmel.) Pers. Syn. 2 (1807) 630. 



Cocos maldivica Gmel. Syst. (1791) 569 (maldioica), ed. 2 (1796) 

 569. 



Borassus sonnerati Giseke Prael. Ord. Nat. PI. (1792) 86. 

 Lodoicea callipyge Comm. ex St. Hil. Expos. 1 (1805) 96. 

 Lodoicea seychellarum Labill. in Ann. Mus. Paris 9 (1807) 140, t. 13. 

 Cocus maldivicus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 210, t. 81. 



Rumphius figures only the fruit of this striking palm, and 

 Gmelin's specific name, here adopted, is the oldest valid one for 

 the species. 



METROXYLON Rottboell 



METROXYLON SAGU Rottb. in Nye Samml. Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift. 

 2 (1783) 527. 



Sagus genuina Giseke Prael. Ord. Nat. PI. (1792) 94 (type!). 

 Metroxylon sagus Koenig in Spreng. Syst. 2 (1825) 138 (type!). 



