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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



CAESALPINIA PU LCH ERRI M A (Linn.) Sw. Obs. (1791) 166. 

 Poinciana pulcherrima Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 380. 

 Crista pavonis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 53, t. 20. 



Amboina, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 51>2, September, 1913, from culti- 

 vated plants in the town of Amboina, including both the red and yellow 

 and the yellow-flowered forms. 



This commonly cultivated plant, of tropical American origin, 

 is well figured by Rumphius. Crista pavonis was first reduced 

 by Linnaeus, to Poinciana pulcherrima, in Stickman Herb. Amb. 

 (1754) 15, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 126, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 

 1018; but in the second edition of his Species Plantarum (1762) 

 544, he erroneously referred it to Poinciana bijuga Linn. 



CAESALPINIA CRISTA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 380, pro majore parte, excl. 

 Fl. Zeyl. 157 quoad Herm. zeyl. 12. 



Guilandina bonducella Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 545. 

 Guilandina bonduc Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 381, p. p., excl. Fl. Zeyl. 156. 

 Caesalpinia bonducella Flem. Asiat. Res. 11 (1810) 159. 

 Guilandina crista Small Fl. Southeast. U. S. (1905) 591. 

 Guilandina bonduc Linn. var. minus DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 480. 

 Caesalpinia jayabo var cyanosperma Maza in Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist, 

 j Nat. 19 (1890) 234. 



Frutex globulorum majorum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 92, t. 49, /. 1. 



The widely distributed plant commonly known as Caesalpinia 

 bonducella Flem. is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 There is no question whatever as to the identity of the plant 

 Rumphius figures, as his illustration is an excellent one. The 

 synonymy, like that of Caesalpinia jayabo Maza (C. bonduc 

 auctt.), is exceedingly complicated and was first adjusted by 

 Urban, Symb. Antil. 2 (1900) 269. I agree with Doctor Urban 

 in the application of the Linnean name in spite of the fact 

 that the first reference given by Linnaeus in the original de- 

 scription of the species applies to the plant commonly known as 

 Caesalpinia nuga (Linn.) Ait., as originally pointed out by 

 Trimen, Fl. Ceyl. 2 (1894) 99; see under Caesalpinia nuga Ait., 

 infra, page 261. Skeels, Science N. S. 37 (1913) 921, would 

 interpret Fl. Zeyl. 157 strictly on the basis of Hermann zeyl. 

 12, as the type of Caesalpinia crista Linn., thus making the 

 species exactly the same as Caesalpinia nuga (Linn.) Ait., re- 

 ducing the latter as a synonym. At the same time he would 

 interpret Fl. Zeyl. 156 as the type of Guilandina bonduc Linn., 

 thus making Caesalpinia bonduc the proper name for the plant 

 described in most botanical works as Caesalpinia bonducella 

 Flem. 



