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rectness of this reduction is very improbable. Doubtless a 

 future exploration of Amboina will yield material that will 

 definitely determine its status. 



D I ALUM Linnaeus 



DIALUM INDUM Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 24. 



Tamarindus altera Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 93. 



From the native names cited by Rumphius, carandje and 

 carandjang, and the references cited, this is Dialum indum Linn., 

 but the Javan specimens in Rumphius's garden may not have 

 been this species. It was from Java, not from Amboina. Ben- 

 nett and Miquel both reduce it to Dialum indum Linn. 



CASSIA Linnaeus 



CASSIA MIMOSOIDES Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 379. 



Amoena moesta Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 147, t. 67. f. 1. 

 Amboina, Batoe gadjah and Soja road, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 535, 

 August 5, 1913, on grassy hillsides, altitude 200 to 250 meters. 



Amoena moesta was originally reduced by Linnaeus, in Stick- 

 man Herb. Amb. (1754) 28, with doubt, to Cassia procumbens 

 Linn., and later, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 135, Syst. ed. 10 

 (1759) 1018, to Cassia nictitans Linn., both American species; 

 both reductions are erroneous. De Candolle, Prodromus 2 

 (1825) 505, reduced it correctly to Cassia angustissima Lam., 

 but Lamarck's species is a synonym of Cassia mimosoides Linn, 

 or at most represents merely a variety of it, C. mimosoides 

 Linn, var angustissima (Lam.) Walp. 



CASSIA ALATA Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 378. 



Herpetica alata Raf. Sylv. Tellur. (1838) 123. 



Cassia alata Linn. var. rumphiana DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 492 (type!). 

 Herpetica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 7: 35, t. 18. 



Amboina, in a sago swamp near the town of Amboina, Robinson PL 

 Rumph. Amb. 546, July 25, 1913. 



The reduction of Herpetica to Cassia alata was originally made 

 by Linnaeus, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 136, is the correct disposi- 

 tion of it, and has been accepted by all authors. 



CASSIA TORA Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 376. 



Cassia obtusifolia Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 377. 



Gallinaria rotundifoiia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 283, t. 97, f. 2. 

 Amboina, Batoe merah, Robinson PL Rumph. Aw6. 525, August 15, 1913, 

 at low altitudes near the seashore ; also Rel. Robins. 2480 from Boeton Island, 

 July 13, 1913. 



A weed of pantropic distribution, originating in tropical 



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