270 RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



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DALBERGIA* Linnaeus f. 



DALBERGIA PARVI FLORA Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 98, nomen nudum, 

 Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 3 (1832) 225. 

 Dalbergia Zollinger 'iana Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 1 (1855) 130. 

 Lacca lignum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5 : 17, t. 13. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 The reduction of Lacca lignum to Dalbergia parviflora Roxb. is 

 certainly correct and was first suggested, as D. Zollinger 'iana 

 Miq., by Teysmann in a letter to Hasskarl, cited by Hasskarl, 

 Neue Schlussel (1866) 90.f 



This species of Dalbergia extends from Indo-China and the 

 Malay Peninsula to Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Celebes, Halmaheira, 

 and Amboina. 



The forms briefly described by Rumphius as Lacca lignum 

 ruffum, Herb. Amb. 5 : 18, L. lignum femina, 1. c. 20, and L. lignum 

 e Java, 1. c. 20, are indeterminable from data now available 

 and may be referable to Dalbergia or to other genera of the 

 Leguminosae, or they may even belong in other families. 



PTEROCARPUS Linnaeus 



PTEROCARPUS INDICUS Willd. Sp. PI. 3 s (1800) 904 (type!). 

 Lingoum rubrum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 205, t. 70. 

 Amboina, Hoenoet, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 550, October 18, 1913, 

 in remnants of forests, altitude 200 meters, locally known as kayu lingua. 



This was originally reduced by Linnaeus merely to the genus 

 Pterocarpus, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 10, but in his 

 Species Plantarum, ed. 2 (1763) 1662, he erroneously placed it 

 as a synonym of Pterocarpus draco Linn. It is the entire basis 

 of Pterocarpus indicus Willd., which species must be interpreted 

 wholly from the Rumphian figure and description. The species 

 is widely distributed in the Malayan region and very generally 

 has been correctly interpreted by modern botanists, as Rumph- 

 ius's figure of the plant is an excellent one. 



Probably referable here are the forms described by Rumphius, 

 1. c. 206, 209, 210, as Lingoum II album and III rubrum. 



PTEROCARPUS PAPUAN US F. Muell. in Austral. Journ. Pharm. 1 (1886) 

 123; Bot. Centralbl. 27 (1886) 21? 

 Lingoum saxatile Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 210. 



Lingoum saxatile Rumph., apparently a Pterocarpus, should 



* Retained name, Vienna Code; Amerimnon P. Br. (1756) is older. 



f See Prain, D., in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 10 1 (1904) 34, t. 8, who cites 

 specimens from Amboina and who also cites Lacca lignum Rumph. as a 

 synonym of Dalbergia parviflora Roxb. 



