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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



GON IOTHALAM US Hooker f. and Thomson 



GON 10TH ALAM US sp. 



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



Unona tripetaloidea Dunal Monog. Anon. (1817) 104 (type!). 



Unona tripetala DC. Prodr. 1 (1824) 90 (type!). 



Cananga silvestris I trifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 197, t. 66, f. 1. 



This is not represented in our Amboina collections. The 

 species, as described and figured by Rumphius, is apparently, 

 a very characteristic one, and Amboina material representing 

 it, when collected, should be connected with it with little dif - 

 ficulty. Cananga silvestris I trifolia Rumph. is the whole basis 

 of the three names Uvaria. tripetala Lam., Unona tripetaloidea 

 Dunal, and U. tripetala DC. Poiret, in Lam. Encycl. 8 (1808) 

 187, referred it to Unona discolor Dunal=Desmos chinensis 

 Lour., an impossible reduction; while Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel 

 (1866) 40, thought that it might be a species of Artabotrys, 

 also an impossible reduction. As the three inner petals are de- 

 scribed as much smaller than the outer three and as surrounding 

 or covering the stamens, it is probable that Goniothalamus is its 

 correct genus, as here tentatively suggested. However, no 

 actual transfer is here made, as the exact status of the species 

 must await further botanical exploration of Amboina. 



ARTABOTRYS R. Brown 



ARTABOTRYS SUAVEOLENS Blume Fl. Jav. 1 (1828) Anon. 62. 

 Spina vaccarum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 21, t. 11+. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 Spina vaccarum Rumph. was reduced by Blume to Artabotrys 

 suaveolens Blume in the original description of that species, 

 and the figure is apparently a good representation of it as 

 currently interpreted. All authors have followed Blume in this 

 reduction, the species being one of very wide distribution in 

 the Malayan region. When Amboina material is available for 

 study, however, it should be critically compared with Artabotrys 

 inodorus Zipp. of New Guinea. 



MELODORUM Hooker f. and Thomson 



MELODORUM LATI FOLIUM (Dunal) Hook. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. (1855) 115, 

 saltern quoad syn. 

 Unona latifolia Dunal Monog. Anon. (1817) 115 (type!). 

 Uvaria latifolia Blume Fl. Jav. 1 (1828) Anon. 37. 

 Cananga silvestris III latifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 198. 



This is not represented in our Amboina collections. Unona 

 latifolia Dunal, as originally published, was based wholly on 



