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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



Cussambium, although poorly figured by Rumphius, is certainly 

 referable to this widely distributed Indo-Malayan species. It 

 was first reduced by Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 615, to his 

 Pistacia oleosa, and the plant he described from specimens cul- 

 tivated in Cochin-China is apparently identical with Schleichera 

 trijuga Willd. ; at any rate it is no Pistacia. Accordingly, 

 Loureiro's specific name, being the older, is here adopted. The 

 reference of Cussambium to Schleichera trijuga Willd. was first 

 made by Blume, Rumphia 3 (1847) 147, who also cites Pistacia 

 oleosa Lour, as a synonym. Cussambium spinosum Ham. is 

 typified by the Rumphian plate and description. 



EUPHORIA Commerson 



EUPHORIA LONGANA Lam. Encycl. 3 (1791) 574. 



Nephelium long ana Cambess. in Mem. M >• > 8 1 *• o :>•> 

 Linkeng Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1 : 157. 



This Chinese species is briefly mentioned by Rumphius, who 

 discusses it under the Chinese name linkeng. The material he 

 had was unquestionably Euphoria longana Lam. 



CUBILIA Blume 



CUBILIA BLANCOI Blume Rumphia 2 (1849) 101. 

 Euphoria cubili Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 287. 



Cubilia rumphii Blume 1. c. 101; Koord. in Ic. Bogor. 1 (1904) 51, 



t. 92, 93. 



Boa massy Rumph. Herb. Amb. 7: 5, t. 3. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections, 

 but is now known from a number of localities in the Philippines 

 (Luzon to Mindanao), from Bum, and from Celebes. The 

 reduction was first made by Blume, in the original publication of 

 the genus cited above, but he recognized two species, the first 

 Cubilia blancoi, the second C. rumphii; it is very apparent that 

 the two are identical, and that, so far as material at present 

 available shows, the genus Cubilia is monotypic and is confined 

 to the Philippines and the Moluccas. Blume had no Philippine 

 material and interpreted Euphoria cubili Blanco solely from 

 Blanco's description. Doctor Radlkofer, under date of July 5, 

 1904, in discussing the identity of certain Philippine specimens 

 with Cubilia blancoi and C. rumphii, writes as follows: 



Your Philippine plant seems to be quite identical with the Celebes one 

 [coll. Koorders] and so Cubilia blancoi and C. rumphii will fall together, 

 and the latter must become a synonym of the former. 



The differences indicated by Blume in the descriptions of what 



