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Linnaeus, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 16, Amoen. Acad. 

 4 (1759) 126, Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 648, and is apparently the 

 correct disposition of it. Euphorbia ligularia Roxb. was de- 

 scribed from Bengal specimens, to which Ligularia Rumph. 

 was reduced. Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 81, referred 

 Ligularia minor Rumph. to Euphorbia edulis Lour., but the form 

 described by Rumphius was probably only a somewhat reduced 

 one of Euphorbia nerii folia. 



Ligularia lactea e Java, briefly described by Rumphius, Herb. 

 Amb. 4:88, was thought by Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 

 80, to be possibly the same as Euphorbia splendens Boj., but 

 this reduction is probably incorrect. 



EUPHORBIA TIRUCALLI Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 452. 

 Ossifraga lactea Rumph. Herb. Amb. 7: 62, t. 29. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 Ossifraga lactea was first reduced to Euphorbia tirucalli Linn, 

 by Linnaeus, in Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 137, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 

 1047, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 649. This is manifestly the correct 

 disposition of it and has been accepted by all authors who have 

 had occasion to cite the Rumphian illustration. 



EUPHORBI ACEAE indet. 



Involucrum cusci Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 73. 



The description, while rather short, is sufficiently definite to 

 indicate that a euphorbiaceous plant is intended. I am, however, 

 unable to refer it to its proper genus from the description alone. 

 Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 77, suspects it to be an 

 Elateriospermum or a species of some allied genus. 



ANACARDIACEAE 



MANGIFERA Linnaeus 



MANGIFERA FOETIDA Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 160. 

 Manga foetida Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 98, t. 28. 

 Amboina, Hitoe lama, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 126, beside clearings, 

 altitude about 175 meters, locally known as ambachan, bachan, and bichang. 



Manga foetida Rumph. was reduced by Loureiro in the original 

 description of Mangifera foetida Lour, and is undoubtedly the 

 form that Loureiro described from Cochin-China material, as 

 the species is widely distributed in the Indo-Malayan region 

 in cultivation. All authors have followed Loureiro in this 

 reduction. 



