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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



the genus Uvaria without additional material from Amboina. 

 It is undoubtedly a species of Uvaria, and it has been suggested 

 as a possible synonym of Uvaria littoralis Blume or U. latifolia 

 Blume; see Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 97. The form very 

 briefly mentioned by Rumphius as Funis dentarius niger, Herb. 

 Amb. 5: 79, represents either the same species as Funis dentarius 

 Rumph. or a closely allied one. 



CANANGIUM Baillon 



CANANGI U M ODORATUM (Lam.) Baill. ex King in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. 61 2 (1892) 41. 



Uvaria odorata Lam. Encycl. 1 (1785) 595. 

 Unona odorata Dunal Monog. Anon. (1817) 108. 

 Cananga odorata Hook. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 1 (1855) 130. 

 Cananga Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 195, t. 65. 



Amboina, Elephant River, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 80, July 19, 1913, 

 locally known as bunga kanangan. 



Lamarck's original description was primarily based on speci- 

 mens collected by Sonnerat, Cananga Rumph. being reduced as 

 a synonym. In this reduction, as Canangium odoratum Baill., 

 certainly the correct disposition of it, he was followed by 

 Willdenow, Persoon, Blume, Spanoghe, and Roxburgh. Dunal 

 cites Cananga as a synonym of Unona odorata Dun. in transfer- 

 ring the species to that genus. Cananga Hook, f & Thomson 

 (1855), the generic name from Rumphius, is invalidated by 

 Cananga Aubl. (1775), for which reason Baillon has proposed 

 the new generic name Canangium, Hist. PL 1 (1868) 213, but 

 Baillon did not actually transfer the species to this genus, this 

 being apparently first accomplished by King. In the more recent 

 literature Cananga Rumph. is generally cited under the name 

 Canangium odoratum Baill., in the somewhat older literature, 

 after the year 1855, under Cananga odorata Hook. f. & Th. 

 Pritzel and Burman f . are wrong in referring it to Uvaria zey- 

 lanica Linn., which is a true Uvaria, known only from India and 

 Ceylon. 



POLYALTHIA Blume 



POLYALTHIA sp. 



Uvaria ligularis Lam. Encycl. 1 (1785) 597 (type!). 

 Unona ligularis Dunal Monog. Anon. (1817) 110 (type!). 

 Cananga silvestris II angustifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 197, t. 66, 



f. 2. 



Nothing remotely resembling this occurs in our Amboina collec- 

 tions. The figure and the description apply very closely to 



