326 



RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



teum and viride, the latter, t. 26, f. 2, with crisped leaves= Croton 

 variegatum var. crispum Muell.-Arg. 



CODIAEUM BRACTI FERU M Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 3 (1832) 680. 



Codiaeum brevistylum Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 47 

 (1911) 28. 



Codiaeum silvestre Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 69, t. 27. 

 Amboina, Koesoe koesoe sereh, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 3J/.0, August 

 23, 1913, with staminate and pistillate flowers. Probably referable here 

 are Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 341, 342, from coral hillsides at Wae, 

 November 28, 1913, both sterile, and one lacking the characteristic reduced 

 "bracts" figured by Rumphius and described by Roxburgh. 



Codiaeum silvestre Rumph. was originally reduced by Linnaeus 

 to Codiaeum variegatum Linn. var. y Sp. PL (1753) 1199, but 

 represents an entirely distinct species, readily separated by its 

 pubescent ovaries and its vegetative characters. The greatly 

 reduced, bract-like leaf is very characteristic, but is present 

 opposite only the uppermost leaves and apparently falls early. 

 Codiaeum bractiferum Roxb. is not listed in Index Kewensis 

 and was described as follows : 



C. bractiferum. R. Shrubby. Leaves linear-oblong, smooth, entire. 

 Racemes terminal, becoming lateral with an immense orbicular bract at 

 the base. Codiaeum silvestre Rumph. Amb. IV. t. 27. A native of the 

 Moluccas. 



I have placed the recently described Amboinese Codiaeum 

 brevistylum Pax & K. Hoffm. as a synonym, although in the de- 

 scription the characteristic, reduced, bract-like leaves are not 

 mentioned, possibly because they had fallen from the specimens 

 collected by Dolleschal. 



ENDOSPERMUM Bentham 



EN DOSPERM U M MOLUCCANUM (Teysm. & Binn.) Becc. Malesia 2 

 (1884) 38. 



Capellania moluccana Teysm. & Binn. in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. 29 

 (1866) 239. 



Arbor regis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 257, t. 85. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections; 

 however, it has been collected in Amboina by Dolleschal. Lin- 

 naeus originally referred Arbor regis Rumph., with doubt, to 

 Hernandia sonora Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 11, 

 Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 122, thus: "85. Arbor regis= Hernandia 

 sonora ? (sed fructus alienus.)." In this reduction he was 

 followed by Burman f ., Lamarck, Willdenow, Persoon, Henschel, 

 Spanoghe, Dietrich, Miquel, and other authors. Beccari, Ma- 

 lesia 2 (1884) 38, first made the correct reduction of it to 



