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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



ed. 10 (1759) 1264, which, as Micrococca mercurialis Benth., 

 is possibly the correct disposition of it. The species, however, is 

 not known from the Moluccas. Pax and K. Hoffmann, in Engl. 

 Pflanzenreich 63 (1914) 133, give its range as tropical Asia and 

 Africa, extending to the southeast only as far as Malacca. 



M ALLOT US Loureiro 

 MALLOTUS TILLIFOL1US (Blume) Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 34 (1865) 190. 

 Rottlera tiliifolia Blume Bijdr. (1825) 607. 

 Halecus litorea Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 196, t. 126. 

 Amboina, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 367, 368, August 8, 1913, along 

 the seashore near the town of Amboina, locally known as baru laut. 



Halecus litorea Rumph. was originally reduced by Linnaeus 

 to Croton aromaticus Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 14, 

 Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 125, in which entirely erroneous reduc- 

 tion he was followed by Loureiro, Murray, Willdenow, Persoon, 

 Henschel, and Miquel. Lamarck, Encycl. 2 (1786) 206, cites it 

 under Croton tiliifolius Lam. var. aromaticus Lam., the type of 

 the species being a specimen from Mauritius, the variety being 

 merely a reduction of Croton aromaticus Linn. Teysmann's 

 reduction of it to Schmidelia, as quoted by Hasskarl, Neue 

 Schlussel (1866) 66, is entirely wrong and was probably due 

 to some error in transcribing Teysmann's notes. 



MELANOLEPIS Reichenbach f. and Zollinger 



MELANOLEPIS M ULTIGLANDULOSA (Reinw.) Reichb. f. & Zoll. in 

 Linnaea 28 (1856) 324. 

 Croton multiglandulosus Reinw. ex Blume Cat. Gew. Buitenz. (1823) 

 105. 



Rottlera multiglandulosa Blume Bijdr. (1825) 609. 

 Melanolepis calcosa Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 2 (1859) 399. 

 Mallotus moluccanus Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 34 (1863) 185, non Croton 

 moluccanus Linn. 



Melanolepis moluccana Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 63 



(1914) 142, non Croton moluccanus Linn. 

 Folium calcosum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 129, t. 6A. 

 Folium calcosum II Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 130. 

 Amboina, Hitoe messen and Ayer putri, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 359, 

 360, August and October, 1913, on forested limestone hills and along road- 

 sides, altitude 5 to 150 meters, locally known as kayu kapor. 



Folium calcosum Rumph. was reduced by Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. 

 ed. 2, 3 (1832) 690, to Ricinus dicoccus Roxb., the description 

 being based on specimens originating in Amboina and cultivated 

 in the botanic garden at Calcutta ; it is a synonym of Melanolepis 

 multiglandulosa Reichb. f. & Zoll. Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. I 2 

 (1859) 399, reduced Ricinus dicoccus Roxb. together with 



