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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



Phyllanthus niruri Linn., has been accepted by all authors, and 

 is certainly the correct disposition of it. 



PHYLLANTHUS EMBLICA Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 982. 



Mirobalanus embilica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 7: 1, t. 1. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 The reduction was first made by Linnaeus, in Amoen. Acad. 4 

 (1759) 136, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1265, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1763) 1393, 

 which is certainly the correct disposition of it. Rumphius notes 

 that it was an introduced plant in Amboina. 



CI CCA Linnaeus 

 CI CCA ACIDA (Linn.) comb. nov. 



Averrhoa acida Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 428. 

 Cicca disticha Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 124. 

 Cicca nodiflora Lam. Encycl. 2 (1786) 1. 



Phyllanthus distichus Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15 2 (1866) 413. 

 Phyllanthus cicca Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 90. 

 Cicca acidissima Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 700. 

 Phyllanthus acidissimus Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1865) 50. 

 Phyllayithus cheramela Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 104. 

 Phyllanthus acidus Skeels in U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. PL Ind. Bull. 148 

 (1909) 17. 



Cheramela Rumph. Herb. Amb. 7: 34, t. 17, /. 2. 



This widely cultivated tree is not represented in our Amboina 

 collections. The reduction of Cheramela Rumph. to Averrhoa 

 acida Linn, was first made by Linnaeus, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 

 136, Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 613, in which he was followed by Bur- 

 man f. and Lamarck. Willdenow, followed by numerous other 

 authors, referred it to Cicca disticha Linn. Miquel, Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. 1 2 (1859) 372, referred it to Cicca nodiflora Lam., while 

 Henschel and Pritzel referred it to Phyllanthus cheramela Roxb. 

 All of these names are synonyms of Cicca acida (Linn.) Merr., 

 Averrhoa acida Linn, being a synonym of Cicca disticha Linn. 

 {Phyllanthus distichus Muell.-Arg.), but much earlier. I prefer 

 to follow Robinson * in retaining Cicca as a genus distinct from 

 Phyllanthus. 



BREYNIA Forster 



BREYNIA CERNUA (Poir.) Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15' (1866) 439. 



Phyllanthus cernuus Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 5 (1804) 298. 



Melanthesa cernua Decne. in Nuov. Ann. Mus. Paris 3 (1834) 483. 



Aalius parvifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 207. 

 Amboina, Batoe gadjah and Negri lama, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. U99, 

 339, August 5 and October 8, 1913, in light forests, altitude 175 to 250 

 meters, locally known as kartu utan. 



* Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 87. 



