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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



momum zeylanicum Nees, which is perhaps the correct disposi- 

 tion of it. 



DEHAASIA Blume 



DEHAASIA MEDIA Blume Rumphia 1 (1835) 163, t. 45. 

 Haasia media Nees Syst. Laur. (1836) 375. 

 Machilus Hi media Rumph. Herb. Arab. 3: 70, t. 41. 



This is not represented in our Amboina collections. Blume's 

 ample description and figure were based on Amboina material, 

 and his disposition of Machilus media Rumph. is doubtless cor- 

 rect, Rumphius's description and figure being cited in the orig- 

 inal description of the species. Nees, Syst. Laur. (1836) 125, 

 thought that it might be Persea peduncularis Nees, and it was 

 cited by Henschel as Machilus peduncularis Nees. 



MACHILUS Nees 



MACHILUS sp.? 



Machilus IV minima Rumph. Herb. Arab. 3: 70, t. 42. 



Nothing resembling the plant figured and described is pre- 

 sented by our Amboina collections, but a species of Machilus, 

 as interpreted by Meisner, is probably intended. The generic 

 name Machilus of Nees is taken from Rumphius. Loureiro, 

 Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 253, referred Machilus minima with doubt 

 to Laurus indica Linn., an entirely wrong disposition of it. Nees 

 thought that the figure represented Machilus odoratissima Nees, 

 Syst. Laur. (1836) 172, and repeated the reduction in DC. Prodr. 

 15 1 (1864) 40. It is certainly not Machilus odoratissima Nees 

 and may ultimately prove to belong to some other genus. It is 

 possibly a species of Phoebe rather than of Machilus. 



EUSI DEROXYLON Teysmann and Binnindyck 



EUSI DEROXYLON ZWAGERI Teysm. & Binn. in Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. 

 Ind. 25 (1863) 292. 

 Lontaro simile lignum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 52. 



Rumphius includes only a brief description of the Bornean 

 wood which he calls caju boelian; the identification has been 

 made from the native name cited, billian being the common name 

 for this important Bornean timber tree. 



LITSEA* Lamarck 

 LITSEA RUMPHM (Blume) F.-Vill. Noviss. App. Fl. Filip. (1880) 180. 

 Tetranthera rumphii Blume Mus. Bot. 1 (1851) 382. 

 Lignum leve alterum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 72, t. 45. 



* Retained name, Vienna Code; Malapoenna Adans. (1763) and Tomex 

 Thumb. (1783) are older. 



