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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



is a Peltophorum. Possibly more than one species of Intsia are 

 included in the description of Metrosideros amboinensis, but 

 it is certainly for the most part the common and widely 

 distributed Intsia bijuga 0. Kuntze. The figure is poor. The 

 description and figure are the whole basis of Intsia amboinensis 

 DC. and of Macrolobium amboinense Teysm., the latter not 

 appearing in Index Kewensis. 



BAUHINIA Linnaeus 



BAUHINIA LINGUA DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 516 (type!), excl. syn. Linn. 

 Phanera ? lingua Miq. PL Ind. Bat. 1 1 (1855) 67. 

 Folium linguae Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 1, t. 1. 

 Amboina, Soja and Negri lama, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 522, August, 

 1913, in fruit, locally known as tabla mulu. 



Folium linguae Rumph. was originally and erroneously re- 

 duced by Linnaeus to the Indian Bauhinia scandens Linn., in 

 Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 18, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 128, 

 Syst. ed. 10 (1859) 1015, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 535, in which 

 he was followed by numerous authors. Loureiro, however, 

 Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 37, cited it under Phanera coccinea 

 Lour., the type of which was a Cochin-China plant. Bauhinia 

 lingua de Candolle is typified by Folium linguae Rumph., 

 the specific name and description being taken wholly from 

 Rumphius. Curiously, de Candolle cites as a synonym Bauhinia 

 scandens Linn., Sp. PL ed. 1, p. 374, "excl. Rheed, syn./' yet 

 Rheede's description and figure are the whole basis of the 

 Linnean species, for the first reference given by Linnaeus to Ray 

 Suppl. 328 is based wholly on Rheede. 



The Amboina specimen is in fruit, but the species manifestly 

 belongs in the section Phanera, as is shown by Rumphius's de- 

 scription of the stamens. I have not been able definitely to 

 refer the Amboina specimens to any other described species than 

 Bauhinia lingua DC, although it seems probable that the same 

 form has been described under another specific name or names. 

 De Candolle's description calls for a specimen with 3-nerved 

 leaf-lobes, as they are thus presented in most of the leaves in 

 Rumphius's figure. However, the actual specimens have mostly 

 5- or 6-nerved lobes. 



BAUHINIA sp. 



Folium linguae litorea alba Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 2. 



This form is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 88, suggests that it may be 

 Phanera glauca Benth.= Bauhinia glauca Wall., but the cor- 



