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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



interpreted. Ficus septica Burm. f. has been quite overlooked 

 by recent authors, but I believe that this name should be adopted 

 in place of Poiret's. The Rumphian figure and description have 

 been cited under Ficus septica Burm. f., by Loureiro, Lamarck, 

 Vahl, Roemer and Schultes, Henschel, Kosteletzky, Walpers, 

 Pritzel, and Miquel [Fl. Ind. Bat. I 2 (1858) 311], but the name 

 is not included in the later writings of Miquel on Ficus [Ann. 

 Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3 (1867) 260-300], nor by King in his 

 monumental work on the species of Ficus of the Indo-Malayan 

 region [Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 1 (1888) 1-185, t. 1-232]. In 

 the original description Burman f. first cited the Rumphian 

 synonym, taking his specific name from Rumphius, followed by a 

 citation of Handur-alu Rheede, Hort. Malabar. 3 : 77, t 59, the 

 citation of the Javanese name siri bipar, and the statement 

 "Habitat in India;" it seems to be quite evident that he had 

 a Javan specimen. 



FICUS ALTISSI M A Blume Bijdr. (1825) 455. 



Varinga latifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 127, t. Sk bis. 



This is not represented in our Amboina collections. It was 

 originally reduced by Linnaeus to Ficus racemosa Linn., in Stick- 

 man Herb. Amb. (1754) 13, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 124, where 

 it certainly does not belong, and later, ^Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) 1515, 

 was placed as a variety of Ficus indica Linn., which it certainly 

 does not represent, no matter whether the latter be interpreted 

 from the occidental or the oriental references. Several authors 

 .followed Linnaeus in citing Varinga latifolia Rumph. under Ficus 

 indica Linn., and Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 3 (1832) 539, states 

 "the figure very bad" (i. e. for Ficus indica Linn.) . Vahl, Enum. 

 2 (1805) 189, erroneously places it under Ficus cotoneaefolia 

 Vahl. The figure is not good, and the data given in the descrip- 

 tion indicate that it is greatly reduced, so that it somewhat 

 resembles Ficus gelderi Miq. The description, however, applies 

 very closely to Ficus altissima Blume and certainly represents 

 this species or a very closely allied one. 



FICUS PUNCTATA Thunb. Ficus (1786) 9. 



Crusta arborum minor Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 84, t. 45. 

 Amboina, Amahoesoe and Hoetoemoeri road, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 

 182, August and September, 1913, climbing on trees, altitude 4 to 100 

 meters, locally known as tali oit. 



No previous reduction of this Rumphian species has been sug- 

 gested, other than Hasskarl's reference of it to the genus Ficus. 

 The figure, the description, and the Amboina specimen cited 



