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and finally Kosteletzsky, Allg. Med. Pharm. PL 5 (1836) 1743, 

 placed it under Acalypha caturus Blume. 



ACALYPHA HiSPIDA Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 303, t. 61, f. 1. 

 Acalypha densiflora Blume Bijdr. (1826) 628. 



Caturus spiciflorus Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 127, non Acalypha spiciflora 

 Burm. f. 



Cauda felis domestica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 82, t. 36, 

 Amboina, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 570, without data, apparently from 

 cultivated plants. 



Burman f. described and figured Acalypha hispida from a 

 Javan specimen, but reduced Cauda felis domestica Rumph. 

 to his species which is certainly the correct disposition of it. 

 Blume misinterpreted Burman's Acalypha hispida and rede- 

 scribed the same form as Acalypha densiflora Blume, reducing 

 to it also Cauda felis domestica Rumph. The plant is widely 

 cultivated for ornamental purposes in the Malayan region. 



PLUKENETIA Linnaeus 



PLUKENETIA CORN ICU LATA Sm. in Nov. Act. Soc. Sci. Upsal. 4 

 (1799) 4. 



Pterococcus glaberrimus Hassk. in Flora 25 (1842) Beibl. 41. 

 Hedrayostylus glaberrimus Hassk. in Tijdschr. Nat. Wetensch. 10 

 (1840) 141. 



' . Hedrayostylus corniculatus Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. (1844) 234. 

 Sajorium corniculatum Dietr. Syn. PI. 5 (1852) 331. 

 Sajor volubilis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 194, t. 79, f. 2. 



Not represented in our Amboina collections. Sajor volubilis 

 Rumph. was originally reduced by Linnaeus to the American 

 Plukenetia volubilis Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 8, 

 Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 120, Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) 1423, in which 

 he was followed by Burman f ., Lamarck, Spanoghe, and Murray. 

 The form figured and described by Rumphius has been cited 

 under all or most of the various synonyms listed above. It was 

 cited by Willdenow, Sp. PI. 4 (1805) 515, under Plukenetia cor- 

 niculata Sm., and perhaps by Smith in the original description 

 of the species, which I have not seen. Sajor volubilis Rumph. 

 is doubtless correctly placed under Plukenetia corniculata Sm. 



RICINUS Linnaeus 



RICINUS COMMUNIS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1007. 



Ricinus albus domesticus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 92. 



Ricinus albus agrestis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 92. 



Ricinus ruber Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 97, t. J>1. 

 Amboina, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 337, 338, in waste places about 

 Castle Victoria, town of Amboina, November 13, 1913, locally known as 

 jarak puti daun besaar and jar ok mera daun kechil. 



