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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



the correct one as Rumphius states that the species occurred 

 most commonly in Java and in Malacca ; it is more probable that 

 an Amboina species would also occur in Java than in Chittagong. 

 The Rumphian description agrees equally well with both forms, 

 and as this particular one has not been collected in Amboina 

 since Rumphius's time, I cannot determine, with certainty, 

 whether or not Alpinia malaccensis Rose, is the same as A. 

 nobilis Ridl. Roscoe's species will have to remain among those 

 of uncertain status until Amboina specimens are available for 

 study. 



ALPINIA UVIFORMIS (Linn.) Horan. Monogr. (1862) 35 (type!). 

 Globba uviformis Linn. Mant. 2 (1771) 171 (type!). 

 Giobba uviformis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 138, t. 59, f. 2. 



A species of doubtful status, known only from Rumphius's 

 figure and description. K. Schumann places it in the section 

 Cylindrostachys. However, it has every appearance of a 

 Plagiostachys, and I suspect that it really belongs in this genus, 

 not in Alpinia. The figure and the description are rather good. 

 It differs from all known species of Plagiostachys, this genus 

 extending from Malacca to Banka, Borneo, and the Philippines, 

 in its much longer, white flowers and tomentose fruits. It is 

 singular that this species, reported by Rumphius from Amboina 

 and Celebes and stated by him to be so common in southern 

 Celebes that the Buginese use it for thatching, has not been 

 collected by any modern botanist or collector. 



ALPINIA sp. 



Globba silvestris pada kanka Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 142. 



This was described from specimens from eastern Celebes, 

 there known as padakanka. The characters indicated — terminal 

 raceme, red flowers, and small globose fruits — point to Alpinia. 

 Hasskarl thought that it might be near Alpinia pyramidata 

 Blume. 



RIEDELIA Oliver 



RIEDELIA LAN AT A (Scheff.) K. Schum. msc. in Herb. Bog.; Valeton in 

 Ic. Bogor. 4 (1913) t. 373, Nova Guinea 8 : 961. 

 Hedychium lanatum Scheff. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 1 (1876) 57. 

 Riedelia curviflora Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. 15 (1883) t. 1419; K. Sch. 



in Engl. Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 374 p. p. 

 Thylacophora pogonocheilus Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 9 (1916) 

 210, t. 5, f. 74, t. 6, f. 75-82. 

 ■ ? Globba lawassi Malacca Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 139. 

 Amboina, Lateri, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 54.3, in light forests, 

 altitude about 35 meters, locally known as globba baubau. 



This species has not been previously collected in Amboina, 



