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Not represented in our Amboina collections. The reduction 

 was made by Blume in the original description of Tetranthera 

 rumphii Blume, and this is presumably the correct disposition 

 of the Rumphian species ; Blume apparently had a specimen from 

 Amboina, judging from his short and imperfect description. 

 Nees thought that it was a species of Tetranthera near T. mono- 

 petala Roxb. 



LITSEA sp. 



Glabraria tersa Linn. Mant. 2 (1771) 276, quoad syn. Rumph. 

 Lignum leve angustifolium Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 71, t. UU. 



Not represented in our Amboina collections. The plant that 

 Rumphius figured and described is manifestly a species of Litsea, 

 apparently in the group with Litsea fulva F.-Vill. and Litsea 

 luzonica F.-Vill. Blume, Mus. Bot. 1 (1851) 383, placed it 

 as a possible synonym of Tetranthera forstenii Blume =Litsea 

 forstenii Boerl. Its exact status, however, cannot be determined 

 without Amboina material. Linnaeus, Mant. 2 (1771) 276, 

 quoted Lignum leve angustifolium Rumph. as a synonym of 

 Litsea tersa Linn, in the original description of that species. 

 It is clearly manifest, however, from the description, that he had 

 an actual specimen, and it is equally manifest that the plant he 

 described is not the same as the one figured and described by 

 Rumphius. The specimen in the Linnean herbarium has been 

 examined for me by Mr. Gamble, who writes under date of June 

 17, 1917, that it is a polypetalous plant, probably belonging 

 in the Bombacaceae near the genus Boschia Korth. Glabraria 

 Linnaeus must, accordingly, be eliminated as a synonym of 

 Litsea. Persoon, Syn. 2 (1807) 4, following Linnaeus's errone- 

 ous reduction of Lignum, leve angustifolium, quotes it as a 

 synonym of Litsea glabraria Pers., as does Nees under Tetran- 

 thera glabraria Nees ; these names, however, go with Litsea gluti- 

 nosa (Lour.) C. B. Rob. (L. chinensis Lam., L. sebifera Pers.), 

 as does Litsea tersa Merr. (non Glabraria tersa Linn.). 



LITSEA STICKMANII sp. nov. 



Lignum leve latifolium Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 71, t. J>3. 

 Amboina, Hitoe messen and Paso, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. U70, U71 

 (type), November 1 and 25, 1913, in forests and along roadsides, altitude 

 3 to 200 meters, locally known as halaor pantey. 



Arbor 10 ad 12 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis 

 oblongis, firme chartaceis, usque ad 20 cm longis, utrinque 

 aequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice acutis vel obscure acu- 

 minatis, supra subolivaceis, subtus pallidis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 8, subtus prominentibus, curvato-adscendentibus, re- 

 ticulis distinctis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, fasciculatis, umbel- 



