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of the species is discussed. It is manifest, however, that most 

 authors interpreted Evodia triphylla (Lam.) DC. not from the 

 Philippine specimen actually described, but from the Rumphian 

 figure, for Lamarck in the original description of Fagara tri- 

 phylla adds a reference to Ampacus angustifolia Rumph. The 

 names Fagara triphylla Lam., Evodia triphylla DC, and Zan- 

 thoxylum triphyllum Don all refer to Melicope triphylla (Lam.) 

 Merr. as synonyms and cannot be applied to the Amboina plant. 

 It was erroneously reduced by Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. I 2 (1859) 

 671, to Zanthoxylum zeylanicum DC. 



Evodia triphylla (Lam.) DC. has been given a range of from 

 Tenasserim to Japan southward through Malaya to New Guinea, 

 and to it have been referred specimens representing at least 

 four distinct species in two different genera. As already 

 pointed out by me, true Zanthoxylum triphyllum hscm.^ Evo- 

 dia triphylla DC. is Melicope triphylla (Lam.) Merr., a species 

 confined to the Philippines. Chinese material generally, but 

 erroneously, referred to Evodia triphylla DC. is Evodia pteleae- 

 folia (Champ.) Merr., in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 377; 

 material from India, the Malay Peninsula, and the Sunda Islands 

 for the most part is Evodia lunur-ankenda (Gaertn.) Merr., 1. c. 

 378; while the actual Ampacus angustifolius Rumph. of Amboina 

 represents still another species, Evodia amboinensis Merr. de- 

 scribed above. This is known only from Amboina, but ma- 

 terial from other parts of the Moluccas and from New Guinea, 

 erroneously referred by other authors to Evodia triphylla DC, 

 may prove to be identical with the Amboina species. 



FLINDERSIA R. Brown 



FLINDERSIA AMBOINENSIS Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 4 (1816) 650 

 (type!). 



Flindersia radulifera Spreng. Geschicht. Bot. 2 (1818) 76 (type!), 



ex Hassk. in Abh. Naturf. Gesellsch. Halle 9 (1866) 208. 

 Arbor radulifera Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 201, t. 129. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 Arbor radulifera Rumph. is the whole basis of Flindersia am- 

 boinensis Poir. and of F. radulifera Spreng. The latter name 

 does not appear in Index Kewensis. All descriptions of the 

 species published, up to and including that of A. de Candolle,* 

 have been based on the data given by Rumphius, no botanist 

 having had specimens. It is cultivated in the botanic garden 

 at Buitenzorg, Java, according to botanical specimens named 



* Meliaceae in DC. Monog. Phan. 1 (1878) 735. 



