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and Miquel, but is here placed under what is manifestly its 

 oldest valid specific name, Pouzolzia zeylanica (Linn.) Benn. 

 Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 3 (1832) 583, erroneously cites the 

 Rumphian illustration under Urtica tuber -osa Roxb.= Pouzolzia 

 tuber osa Wight. 



PIPTURUS Weddell 



PIPTURUS ARGENTEUS (Forst.) Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16 1 (1869) 235". 



Urtica argentea Forst. Prodr. (1786) 65. 



Morus paniculata Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 67 (type!). 



Perlarius I Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 120, t. 56. 

 Amboina, Lateri, Batoe merah, and Amahoesoe, Robinson PL Rumph. 

 Amb. 317, 318, July and August, 1913, in forests and thickets on limestone 

 formations, altitude 20 to 150 meters, locally known as daun kes and 

 daun kesi. 



Perlarius as figured and described by Rumphius is the whole 

 basis of Morus paniculata Roxb. as originally published in the 

 Hortus Bengalensis (1814) 67 by citation of the Rumphian 

 figure; see C. B. Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 

 414. Roxburgh's species, later described from material ori- 

 ginating in the Moluccas, Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 3 (1832) 599, has been 

 reduced to Pipturus velutinus Wedd.^P. incanus (Blume) 

 Wedd., a species difficult to distinguish from P. argenteus 

 Wedd. ; but wherever placed, it will in turn place the synonyms 

 Pipturus paniculatus Miq. and Botry morus paniculata Miq. If, 

 however, a critical revision of the genus should show that the 

 Amboina material is Pipturus incanus Wedd. rather than P. 

 argenteus Wedd., then Roxburgh's specific name will take pre- 

 cedence over Pipturus incanus Wedd. 



Perlarius latifolius, described in this chapter, is Robinson- 

 iodendron ambiguum Merr. (see p. 204). Perlarius parvifolius 

 may be a variant of Pipturus argenteus Wedd. or may refer to 

 some entirely different genus and species; its status is quite 

 uncertain. 



PIPTURUS REPANDUS (Blume) Wedd. in Arch. Mus. Paris 9 (1857) 

 448. 



Urtica repanda Blume Bijdr. (1825) 501. 

 Aylaun nya femina Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 67. 

 Amboina, Batoe gadjah and Batoe merah River, Robinson PI. Rumph. 

 Amb. 321, 322, August, 1913, climbing over trees, ascending to an altitude 

 of 250 meters. 



Aylaun nya femina Rumph. is described in the chapter with 

 Funis muraenarum=Medinilla. The description is poor, but 

 so far as it goes it applies fairly closely to the specimens here 

 referred to Pipturus repandus Wedd. 



