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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



lulis circiter 6-floris, longe graciliterque pedunculatis, floribus 

 pubescentibus. 



A tree 10 to 12 m high, quite glabrous except the inflorescence. 

 Branches and branchlets brownish, the latter more or less angled. 

 Leaves alternate, oblong, firmly chartaceous, 12 to 20 cm long, 

 3.5 to 5.5 cm wide, equally narrowed to the acute base and 

 to the acute or obscurely acuminate apex, the upper surface more 

 or less olivaceous when dry, smooth and shining, the lower pale ; 

 lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent on 

 the lower surface, curved-ascending, obscurely anastomosing, 

 the ultimate reticulations fine, rather close; petioles about 1 

 cm long. Flowers axillary, the umbellules fascicled, their pe- 

 duncles slender, slightly pubescent, about 1 cm long, each about 

 6-flowered. Bracts obovate to elliptic-obovate, rounded, con- 

 cave, pubescent, 3.5 to 4 mm long. Flowers appressed-pubes- 

 cent, their pedicels 2 to 3 mm long, the lobes oblong, 2 mm in 

 length. Fruit unknown, when very young one to three on' 

 each peduncle. 



This species is apparently allied to the form Blume described 

 as Tetranthera ambigua Blume (not Litsea ambigua Nees), but 

 differs in its smaller leaves, glabrous branchlets, and other 

 characters. It certainly represents Lignum leve latifolium 

 Rumph. It is dedicated to 0. Stickman, author of the first 

 publication on the Herbarium Amboinense. 



Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 471, erroneously referred Lig- 

 num leve latifolium Rumph. to Glabraria tersa Linn., followed 

 by Blume's reference of it to Tetranthera laurifolia Jacq. var. 

 tersa (Linn.) Blume, with which it has nothing in common. 

 Nees, in DC. Prodr. 15 1 (1864) 180, placed it, with doubt, under 

 Tetranthera laurifolia Jacq. var. saligna Nees, where it certainly 

 does not belong. 



LITSEA sp. 



Machilus II femina Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 69, t. 40, f. B. 

 Amboina, Hoetoemoeri road, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 469, September 

 30, 1913, in forests, altitude about 300 meters. 



The specimen cited certainly represents the form described 

 by Rumphius, of which he figures a single leaf. There is nothing 

 in the figure by which Machilus I mas can be distinguished from 

 Machilus femina, and it certainly represents a species of Litsea 

 perhaps not distinct from the one here considered. The only 

 previous suggestion as to the identity of Machilus I mas Rumph., 

 Herb. Amb. 3: 68, t. 40, is Teysmann's opinion, quoted by Hass- 



