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CA ESALPI N I A JAYABO Maza in Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 19 (1890) 234. 

 Guilandina bonduc Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 381, p. p., quoad Fl. Zeyl. 156. 

 Caesalpinia bonduc auctt. 



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

 Guilandina major Small Fl. Southeast. U. S. (1903) 591. 

 Caesalpinia glabra Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 54, non 



Guilandina glabra Mill. 

 Frutex globulorum femina Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 89, t. 48. 



Amboina, Wae, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 564, November 25, 1913, climb- 

 ing over trees at low altitudes. 



The reduction of Frutex globulorum femina was first made by 

 Linnaeus, who placed it as a synonym of Guilandina bonduc 

 Linn, in his Species Plantarum ed. 2 (1762) 545, and most 

 authors have been content to accept this name as the proper 

 one for the species. The synonymy is very complicated, but 

 Guilandina bonduc Linn, as originally published by Linnaeus in 

 1753 is for the most part identical with G. bonducella Linn, 

 as published by Linnaeus in the year 1762, and both are, for 

 the most part, the same as Caesalpinia crista Linn. 1753. The 

 synonymy has been very fully discussed by Urban, Symb. Antil. 

 2 (1900) 269, 272. Guilandina bonduc Linn. var. majus DC. 

 was based on the Linnean description, as given in the second 

 edition of the Species Plantarum, and the figure of Rumphius 

 cited above and in turn is the basis of Guilandina major Small. 

 Guilandina glabra Mill, is an entirely different species, if Miller's 

 short description be correct, and I erred in 1910 in proposing to 

 take up this specific name. It is apparent that Maza's specific 

 name Caesalpinia jayabo is the earliest valid one for this pan- 

 tropic plant. Caesalpinia bonduc Roxb., based on Guilandina 

 bonduc Linn., is certainly untenable and should be abandoned. 



CAESALPINIA NUGA (Linn.) Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 3 (1811) 32. 

 Guilandina nuga Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 546 (type!). 

 Caesalpinia crista Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 380, pro minore parte, FL Zeyl. 



157 quoad Herm. zeyl. 12. 

 Nugae silvarum litoreae et terrestres Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 94, t. 50. 

 Amboina, Eri, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 539, September 22, 1913, along 

 the seashore; Amahoesoe, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 538, August 13, 1913, 

 in thickets at an altitude of about 30 meters, locally known as galachi and 

 pohon baduri. ,. 



The Rumphian reference is the whole basis of Guilandina 

 nuga Lmn.=Caesalpinia nuga (Linn.) Ait. and has been inter- 

 preted as such by all authors. In this connection it is to be 

 noted that Caesalpinia crista Linn., Sp. PI. (1753) 380, is, in 

 part, the same as Caesalpinia nuga Ait. The first reference 

 in the original description of the species is to Fl. Zeyl. No. 157, 



