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malaccense Rumph., follows Blume and other authors. Blume 

 makes the Rumphian figure and description the type of Evia 

 amara Commers. var. tuberculosa Blume; and Engler, recogniz- 

 ing the variety, transfers it to Spondias mangifera Willd. var. 

 tuberculosa Blume. The form described and figured, however, 

 is probably nothing but typical Spondias pinnata (Linn, f.) 

 Kurz. 



DRACONTOMELUM Blume 



DRACONTOMELUM M ANGI FERUM Blume Mus. Bot. 1 (1850) 231. 

 Poupartia mangifera Blume Bijdr. (1826) 1160, excl. syn. 

 Pomum draconum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 157, t. 58. 

 Amboina, Kaju poeti, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 127, October 24, 1913, 

 in light woods, altitude about 200 meters, locally known as bua rau. 



Hamilton, Mem. Wern. Soc. 5 2 (1828) 358, thought Pomum 

 draconum Rumph. to be "pretty clearly a Spondias," but Blume, 

 Mus. Bot. 1 (1850) 231, referred it to Dracontomelum mangi- 

 ferum Blume, .which is apparently the correct disposition of it, 

 and one that has been accepted by subsequent authors, including 

 Walpers, Miquel, and Engler. The species is widely distributed 

 in the Malay Archipelago. 



DRACONTOMELUM SYLVESTRE Blume Mus. Bot. 1 (1850) 231. 



Pomum draconum silvestre Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 159, t. 59. 



This is not represented in our Amboina collections. The 

 reduction was made by Blume in the original description of 

 Dracontomelum sylvestre and is probably the correct disposition 

 of it. According to Blume the species is widely distributed in 

 the Malay Archipelago, but in the most recent monograph of the 

 group Engler cites specimens from Borneo only. 



AN ACARDI U M Linnaeus 

 AN ACARDI U M OCCI DENTALE Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 383. 

 Cassuvium pomiferum Lam. Encycl. 1 (1783) 22. 

 Cassuvium Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 177, t. 69. 



The common cashew is not represented in our Amboina col- 

 lections, but is very generally cultivated throughout the Malayan 

 region. Cassuvium Rumph. was originally reduced by Linnaeus 

 to Anacardium occidentale Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. 

 (1754) 8, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 120, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1019, 

 Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 548, which reduction is certainly correct 

 and has been very generally followed by subsequent authors. 

 Lamarck, however, redescribed the same species as Cassuvium 

 pomiferum Lam., referring here Cassuvium Rumph., from which 

 he took the generic name. 



