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lablab Linn. Cacara alba was cited by Loureiro in the original 

 description of Dolichos albus Lour., Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 439, 

 and has been cited by various authors under Lablab perennans 

 DC, Lablab vulgaris Savi, and Lablab cultratus DC, all syn- 

 onyms of Dolichos lablab Linn. 



Some authors, after Adanson, have maintained Lablab as a 

 genus distinct from Dolichos Linnaeus, but I interpret Dolichos 

 lablab Linn, as the type of the genus Dolichos, it being the first 

 species cited in the Species Plantarum, while the generic descrip- 

 tion, as given in the Genera Plantarum ed. 5 (1754) 324, conforms 

 to the characters of this species. 



LEGUMI NOSiE OF UNCERTAIN STATUS 



Crotalaria montana VIII tsjeme tsjeme Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 146. 



A shrub from Macassar, Celebes, insufficiently described, but manifestly 

 a representative of the Leguminosae. Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 176, 

 thought that it might be a species of Sophora, near S. glabra Hassk. 

 Aeschynomene theophrasti Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 124. 



Burman f. referred this to Aeschynomene aspera Linn., but there is no 

 warrant for this reduction. Rumphius merely discusses the plant as de- 

 scribed by Theophrastus. 



OXALIDACEAE 



AVERRHOA Linnaeus 



AVERRHOA BILIMBI Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 428. 



Blimbingum teres Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 118, t. 36. 



Amboina, Binting, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 219, August 13, 1913, 

 locally known as blimbing. 



This is one of the few Rumphian species that Linnaeus reduced 

 in the first edition of his Species Plantarum, the Rumphian 

 citation appearing in Sp. PL (1753) 428, and in all of Linnaeus's 

 subsequent works in which the species is considered. The reduc- 

 tion is certainly correct, and Linnaeus has been followed by all 

 subsequent authors. 



AVERRHOA CARAMBOLA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 428. 



Prunum stellatum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 115, t. 35. 

 Amboina, from cultivated plants near the town of Amboina, Robinson 

 PL Rumph. Amb. 218, August 23, 1913, locally known as blimbing manis. 



This Rumphian species, like the preceding one, was reduced 

 by Linnaeus in the first edition of his Species Plantarum (1753) 

 428, appears in the subsequent writings of the same author in 

 which Averrhoa is considered, and the reduction, certainly cor- 

 rect, has been accepted by all subsequent authors. 



