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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



Cynomorium is one of the few Rumphian species cited by 

 Linnaeus in the first edition of the Species Plantarum (1753) 

 382, where the reduction to Cynometra cauliflora Linn, was 

 made. This is manifestly the correct disposition of it, and 

 Linnaeus has been consistently followed by all succeeding 

 authors. 



CYNOMETRA RAM I FLORA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 382. 



Cynomorium silvestre Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 167, t. 63. 

 Amboina, Amahoesoe, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 531, August 28, 1913, 

 on coral limestone cliffs at low altitudes. 



Like Cynomorium, this Rumphian plant was first reduced 

 by Linnaeus in the original description of Cynometra ramiflora 

 Linn., Sp. PI. (1753) 382. Linnaeus includes in Cynometra 

 ramiflora the form with a single pair of leaflets, the Amboina 

 plant, and the form with two pairs of leaflets, Iripa of Rheede, 

 apparently the form described by Thwaites as Cynometra rami- 

 flora Linn. var. heterophylla Thw. The present form, with a 

 single pair of leaflets, has very generally been interpreted as 

 typical Cynometra ramiflora Linn., and has been indicated by 

 Prain as var. genuina, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 2 (1897) 198. 



SIN DORA Miquel 



SINDORA GALEDUPA Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 2 (1897) 483 

 (type!). 



Sindora inermis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 10 (1915) Bot. 314? 

 Caju galedupa Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 59, t. 13. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 The material on which the description was originally based 

 was from Celebes and from the small islands of Saleyer and 

 Calaua. It grows near the sea and is locally known as caju 

 galedupa. Lamarck, Encycl. 2 (1788) 594, cites the Rumphian 

 figure and description as a synonym of Galedupa indica, but 

 Galedupa indica Lam. as described from Sonnerat's specimens 

 is Pongamia glabra Vent.=P. pinnata (Linn.) Merr. Hamilton, 

 Mem. Wern. Soc. 6 (1832) 291, thought that it might be a species 

 of Copaifera. Wight and Arnott, Prodr. 1 (1834) 262, placed it 

 in Pongamia, with doubt. Walpers, Ann. 4 (1857) 581, and 

 Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. I 1 (1855) 144, erroneously cite it as a 

 synonym of Derris forsteniana Blume. Linnaeus, in Stickman 

 Herb. Amb. (1754) 9, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 120, placed it 

 under Connarus with doubt, but did not refer it to Connarus 

 monocarpus Linn, as indicated by Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel 

 (1866) 28. Prain has certainly placed it in its correct genus, 



