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onym of Lamarck's species, but states that "Rumphius's Celebes 

 plant shows the leaves too deeply 5-lobed (as in G. brasiliense) 

 to be typical G. vitifolium." Other names involved in the reduc- 

 tion are Gossypium nigrum Ham. and G. indicum Lam. While 

 the disposition of Gossypium latifolium Rumph. as a synonym of 

 G. brasiliense Macf. is not certainly the correct one, it is a 

 reasonably safe one for the present. 



GOSSYPIUM INDICUM Lam. Encycl. 2 (1786) 134. 

 Gossypium nanking Meyen Reise 2 (1836) 323. 

 Gossypium Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 33, t. 12. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 The Rumphian plant was first reduced by Linnaeus to Gossypium 

 herbaceum Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 15, Amoen. 

 Acad. 4 (1759) 126, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1148, Sp. PI. ed. 2 

 (1763) 975, where it certainly does not belong. Lamarck, 

 Encycl. 2 (1786) 134, cited the Rumphian figure as representing 

 his Gossypium indicum, although the actual type of that species 

 is a specimen collected by Sonnerat. However, Watt considers 

 that Gossypium indicum Lam. is a synonym of G. nanking Meyen, 

 and as Lamarck's specific name is the oldest valid one for the 

 species it is here accepted. Watt, Wild and Cultivated Cotton 

 Plants of the World (1907) 128, definitely refers Rumphius's 

 figure to Gossypium nanking var. nadam Watt. Hasskarl, Neue 

 Schlussel (1866) 73, interprets the Rumphian description as 

 Gossypium minus and G. majus, considering the tall form de- 

 scribed to be Gossypium arboreum Linn. 



GOSSYPIUM PURPURASCENS Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 2 (1811) 369. 

 Gossypium floribus f usco-rubentibus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 34. 



The reduction merely follows Hasskarl's suggestion. It is 

 probable that it is the correct disposition of the Javan form 

 that Rumphius casually and very briefly describes, but the data 

 given are too few to warrant a certain identification of it. 



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DURIO Adanson 



DURIO ZIBETHINUS Murr. Syst. (1774) 591. 

 Durio Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 99, t. 29. 



Amboina, Batoe gadjah, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 69, August 5, 1913, 

 from a cultivated tree, locally known as durion. 



Durio was reduced to Durio zibethinus by Murray in the orig- 

 inal description of the species, the characters being apparently 



