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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



BIOPHYTUM de Candolle 



BIOPHYTUM SENSITIVUM (Linn.) DC. Prodr. 1 (1824) 690. 

 Oxalis sensitiva Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 434. 

 Herba sentiens Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 301, t. 10U, f. 2. 

 Amboina, Batoe mera, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 217, July 20, 1913, 

 along ditches in rocky soil, altitude 5 to 10 meters. 



Herba sentiens Rumph. was reduced by Linnaeus to Oxalis 

 sensitiva, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 22, Amoen. Acad. 4 

 (1759) 131, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1038, Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 622, 

 which is certainly correct. The plant is now known as Biophy- 

 tum sensitivum (Linn.) DC, and most authors who have cited 

 the Rumphian figure since 1824 have so placed it. Miquel, 

 however, Fl. Ind. Bat. I 2 (1858) 134, considers that the 

 Rumphian figure represents Oxalis reinwardtii Zucc, which he 

 maintains as a species distinct from Biophytum sensitivum 

 (Linn.) DC. 



OXALIS Linnaeus 



OXALIS REPENS Thunb. Diss. Oxal. (1781) 16. 

 Oxys lutea indica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 277. 

 Amboina, on walls in the town of Amboina, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 

 216, July 22, 1913, locally known as daun kelauwar. 



Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 107, and Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 

 (1790) 285, place Oxys lutea indica under Oxalis corniculata 

 Linn., and most authors have considered Oxalis repens Thunb. 

 to be a synonym of the older Linnean species. However, Dr. 

 B. L. Robinson * has shown that two species are involved in 

 what is generally called Oxalis corniculata Linn. The actual 

 Amboina specimens, like most or all the material from the 

 Malayan region usually called Oxalis corniculata Linn., are 

 actually referable to Thunberg's species, as the two forms are 

 distinguished by Doctor Robinson. 



RUTACEAE 



FAGARA Linnaeus 



FAGARA TORVA (F. Muell.) Engl, in Engl. & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 



3* (1895) 119. 

 Zanthoxylum torvum F. Muell. Fragm. 7 (1871) 140. 

 Zanthoxylum glandulosum T. & B. Cat. Hort. Bogor. (1866) 234, 



nomen nudum. 

 Nugae sylvarum silvestris Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 124. 

 Amboina, Paso, on trees at low altitudes, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 250, 

 October 29, 1913. 



* Journ. Bot. 44 (1906) 391. 



