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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



surfaces. Ovary ovoid, densely pubescent. Fruits brown when 

 dry, depressed-globose, 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter, normally 3-celled, 

 in cross-section with three very broadly rounded angles, more 

 or less ferruginous-pubescent, in age becoming nearly glabrous, 

 the pericarp very thick, inside reddish-brown when dry, some- 

 what spongy in texture. 



Nani hua Rumph. was reduced by Loureiro to Baccaurea 

 rami flora Lour., Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 661, the type of the genus, 

 but Baccaurea ramiflora Lour, was actually described from speci- 

 mens taken from cultivated trees in Cochin-China and is not 

 the same as the Amboina Nani hua of Rumphius. Henschel, 

 Poiret, and Pritzel accepted Loureiro's reduction of Nani hua. 

 DeVriese and Poiret, in Lam. Encycl. 4 (1798) 419, thought 

 that it might be a species of Eugenia, while Hasskarl, Neue 

 Schlussel (1866) 47, quotes Teysmann's opinion that it might 

 belong in the Myrtaceae. 



Baccaurea nanihua Merr. closely resembles Baccaurea philip- 

 pinensis Merr. and Baccaurea hracteata Muell.-Arg. and mani- 

 festly belongs in the same group as these two species. It is 

 readily distinguished from both, however, by its more numer- 

 ously nerved leaves. 



ANTIDESMA Burman 



ANTIDESMA BUNIUS (Linn.) Spreng. Syst. 1 (1825) 826. 

 Stilago bunius Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 122. 



Antidesma rumphii Tul. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ill 15 (1851) 238 (type). 



Bunius sativa s. domestica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 204, t. 131. 



Bunius agrestis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 205, t. 131, f. A. 

 Amboina, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 33h, September 13, 1913, from 

 cultivated trees in the town of Amboina, locally known as kuti kata and 

 kata kuti. 



Bunius sativus Rumph. (B. domestica Rumph.) was reduced 

 by Linnaeus to Stilago bunius Linn, in the original description 

 of that species, which, as Antidesma bunius (Linn.) Spreng., is 

 certainly the correct disposition of it. Antidesma rumphii Tul. 

 was based wholly on Bunius agrestis Rumph., which seems to 

 me to be merely the spontaneous or subspontaneous form of 

 Antidesma bunius Spreng.; I have accordingly here reduced 

 Antidesma rumphii Tul. to Antidesma bunius (Linn.) Spreng. 



ANTIDESMA STIPULARE Blume Bijdr. (1826) 1125. 



Antidesma amboinense Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1864) 218. 



Arbor nuda Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 89, t. 59. 

 Amboina, Lateri, Batoe merah River, and vicinity of the town of Amboina, 

 Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 355, 356, August, September, and October, 1913, 

 in light woods, altitude 40 to 150 meters, locally known as kata kuti kam- 



