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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



ELAEOCARPACEAE 



ELAEOCARPUS Linnaeus 



Five or six species of Elaeocarpus are described by Rumphius 

 under various names, such as Blimbingum sylvestre Rumph., 

 Ganitrus, Ganitrum oblongum, Lignum momentaneum, and 

 Arbor rediviva; while Hasskarl, Neue Schiissel (1866) 49, 50, 

 suggests that Sicchius femina Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 41, t. 22, 

 and Carbonaria femina Rumph., 1. c. 53, may be species of Elaeo- 

 carpus. The last is certainly not referable to the genus. 



Five species of this genus have been described from Amboina. 

 These are Elaeocarpus oppositif olius (DC.) Miq. and E. frutico- 

 sus Roxb. (from the Moluccas, probably from Amboina), both 

 very imperfectly described, indicated as having opposite leaves, 

 and certainly the same as E. edulis T. & B. ; E moluccanus 

 SchefT. ; and E. treubii Hochr. The last two were described from 

 specimens cultivated in the botanic garden at Buitenzorg, Java, 

 and E. treubii Hochr. may not have originated in Amboina. 

 The Robinson collection presents three species, one of which is 

 certainly the same as Elaeocarpus edulis T. & B. and with equal 

 certainty is the same as Blimbingum sylvestre Rumph., but the 

 other two I cannot definitely refer to any described species. 

 While both have doubtfully been referred to forms figured and 

 described by Rumphius, the identity of neither with the 

 Rumphian plants can be considered certain. 



ELAEOCARPUS OP POSIT I FOLI US (DC.) Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 2 (1858) 211. 



Aceratium oppositif olium DC. Prodr. 1 (1824) 519. 

 Elaeocarpus fruticosus Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 600. 

 Elaeocarpus excavatus Reinw. ex Koord. in Lorenz Nova Guinea 8 

 (1907) 174. 



Biimbingum sylvestre Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 138, t. 73. 

 Amboina, Negri lama, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 372, September 8, 1913; 

 Way tommo, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 373, August 17, 1913, PL Rumph. 

 A?nb. 190, July 23, 1913 (detached mature fruits only), river banks, 

 altitude 15 to 40 meters. 



Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 69, was entirely wrong in 

 referring Blimbingum sylvestre of Rumphius to his new genus 

 and species, Cylindria rubra. The genus is of entirely uncertain 

 status, has nothing to do with Elaeocarpus, and must be inter- 

 preted from Cochin-China material. Elaecarpus edulis Teysm. 

 & Binn. was based on Amboina specimens, but these authors do 

 not indicate the identity of Blimbingum sylvestre with their 

 species. The actual specimens, cited above, agree with Rumph- 

 ius's dscription and rather poor figure and bear the native name 



