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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



occur in Alpinia nutans and are very distinct in t. 63, 

 fig. B, which I think is merely an almost life-sized branchlet of 

 the form figured on the plate. According to Rumphius the 

 racemes of Globba silvestris minor differ from Globba silvestris 

 major in being longer, sterile, and without bracts, in all of 

 which characters Robinson 1U1 agrees; the specimen presents 

 only staminate flowers, with no vestiges of a gynaecium and no 

 bracts. The specimen also agrees with Alpinia gigantea Blume 

 in having very large pubescent leaves, so that Blume's species 

 was not a "species mixta" at all and should be reinstated. The 

 pistillate racemes of this plant, unknown to Rumphius, were also 

 collected by Robinson, No. 1J+3, who did not, however, recognize 

 that this form belonged with the one represented by his 141. In 

 the Buitenzorg herbarium there are numerous specimens collected 

 by Boerlage and by Teysmann presenting both pistillate and 

 staminate flowers. 



ALPINIA NUTANS (Linn.) Rose, in Smith Exot. Bot. 2 (1805) quoad 

 syn. Linn., excl. t. 160 et descr. quae est A. speciosa K. Sch. 

 Globba nutans Linn. Mant. 2 (1771) 170 (type!). 



Alpinia papuana K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 355, 



p. p., quoad specim. Moluccana. 

 Alpinia moluccana Gagnep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 48 (1902) 90. 

 Alpinia eubractea Val. (non K. Schum.) Ic. Bogor. 3 (1909) t. 300. 

 Alpinia gigantea Val. (non Blume) Nova Guinea 8 (1913) 943. 

 Globba silvestris major Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 140, t. 62, 63 (in 



explicatione tab., t. 63, sphalmate pro Globba silvestris minor dis- 



tincta habetur). 



Amboina, Lateri, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 142, September 5, 1913, in 

 forests, altitude about 275 meters, locally known as geloba merah. Also 

 collected by Teysmann in the same locality, and by Boerlage 83 p. p. 



This species is widely distributed in the Eastern Archipelago 

 and has been described under various names, but Globba nutans 

 Linn., the name-bringing synonym of Alpinia nutans Rose, was 

 based wholly on Globba silvestris major Rumph., Alpinia nutans 

 Rose, thus being the oldest name for the species. The younger 

 Linnaeus, Suppl. (1781) 79, followed by Giseke, Prael. Ord. 

 Nat. PL (1792) 251, erroneously referred both of the Rumphian 

 illustrations to Renealmia exaltata Linn, f ., but the plant actually 

 described under this name was from South America and is 

 entirely different from the Moluccan one. By some authors, 

 Murray, Syst. (1774) 67, and Richter, Codex Bot. Linn. (1840) 

 42, the figures are erroneously cited as t. 12 and t. 13, instead of 

 t. 62 and t. 63. Alpinia nutans Rose, as actually described 

 and figured, is Alpinia speciosa (Wendl.) K. Schum. Alpinia 

 nutans K. Schum., non Rose, is Alpinia oceanica Burkill. AU 



