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Ficus nodosa Teysm. & Binn. was from Amboina. The figure 

 given by Rumphius is decidedly poor, and from it alone the 

 status of the species is indeterminable; in connection with 

 Amboina material, however, it is clearly the species as here 

 interpreted. 



FICUS MOSELEYANA King in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 1 (1888) 144, 

 t. 181. 



Caprificus aspera tertia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 151. 

 Amboina, Mahija, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 181, August 7, 1913, 

 margins of forests, altitude about 250 meters, locally known as koti and 

 gohi. 



There is some doubt as to the correctness of this reduction of 

 the Rumphian name, for the form described as Caprificus aspera 

 III may be properly referable to Ficus wassa Roxb. 



FICUS WASSA Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 3 (1832) 539. 



Caprificus aspera latifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 150, t. 94.. 



Caprificus aspera angustifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 151. 

 Amboina, Soja, Elephant River, and town of Amboina, Robinson PL 

 Rumph. Amb. 175, 176, 177, July, August, and September, 1913, from sea 

 level to an altitude of 400 meters, locally known as gohi. 



Roemer and Schultes erroneously reduced the Rumphian 

 species to Ficus symphiti folia Lam. ; Pritzel erroneously referred 

 it to Ficus glomerata Roxb.; and Haskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 

 60, thought that it might be Covella hispida Miq. The type of 

 Ficus wassa Roxb. was a specimen cultivated in the botanic 

 garden at Calcutta, originating in the Moluccas, and Roxburgh 

 states in the original description: "Wassa of the Malayas, and 

 probably Caprificus aspera Rumph. Amb. Ill t. 9J>." The speci- 

 mens agree closely with the description of Rumphius and of 

 Roxburgh, but the plate given by Wight, Ic. t. 666, presents a 

 specimen with much more prominently toothed leaves than our 

 Amboina material and, for that matter, than Roxburgh's 

 description calls for. The receptacles are both axillary and 

 solitary and on short tubercle-like racemes on the branches and 

 trunk. Wassa is one of the native names cited by Rumphius 

 for this species. 



FICUS SEPTICA Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 226. 



Ficus leucantatoma Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 2 (1811) 654. 

 Ficus septica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 153, t. 96. 

 Amboina, Elephant River, near the town of Amboina, and Paso, Robinson 

 PL Rumph. Amb. 189, July and October, 1913, locally known as siripopa. 



The specimen agrees entirely with Rumphius's figure and 

 description, and also with Ficus leucantatoma Poir. as currently 



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