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In the same year Linnaeus, Syst. ed. 10 (1859) 1044, erroneously 

 referred the same figure to Triumfetta bartramia Linn, The 

 Rumphian plate and description were reduced to Forster's species 

 by Linnaeus f., Suppl. (1781) 187, and this disposition of it has 

 been accepted by subsequent authors. In this connection botan- 

 ists generally have recognized Commersonia echinata Forst. and 

 C. platyphylla Andr. as two distinct species. The latter is hardly 

 more than a form or a variety of the former. Gagnepain, Not. 

 Syst. 1 (1909) 96, in a note regarding the typical form of Fors- 

 ter's species, reduces Commersonia platyphylla Andr. to C. echi- 

 nata Forst. var. platyphylla (Andr.) Gagnep. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 

 PI. 1 (1891) 81, recognizes Restiaria Rumph. as the proper 

 generic name for Commersonia, but this is inadmissible under 

 the rules of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. 



HELICTERES Linnaeus 



H ELICTERES ISORA Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 963. 



Fructus regis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 7: 32, t. 17, f. 1. 



This characteristic species is not represented in our Amboina 

 collections. Burman, in the explanation of the Rumphian fig- 

 ure, p. 33, connects Fructus regis with Helicteres isora Linn., 

 citing not the Linnean binomial, but the diagnostic sentence 

 "Helicteres foliis cordatis, serratis, fructu composito contorto, 

 Linnaei Spec. Plant, pag. 963." This reduction was accepted by 

 Linneaeus, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 136, and manifestly is the 

 correct disposition of Fructus regis. Lamarck, Encycl. 3 (1789) 

 88, erroneously considered it to represent a variety of his Helic- 

 teres ovata, a Brazilian species; while Hasskarl, PL Jav. Rar. 

 (1848) 308, Neue Schlussel (1866) 189, adds Isora corylifolia 

 Schott & Endl., a synonym of Helicteres isora Linn. 



KLEINHOVIA Linnaeus 

 KLEI N HOV! A HOSPITA Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) 1365. 

 Catti marus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 177, t. 113. 

 Amboina, Paso, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 292, September 8, 1913, 

 margins of cultivated fields, altitude about 10 meters, locally known as 

 kinar. 



Catti marus was cited by Linnaeus in the original description 

 of Kleinhovia hospita, but the type was an actual specimen from 

 Java, collected by Kleinhof; the generic name is corrected by 

 some botanists to Kleinhofia, but the original Linnean spelling 

 is here retained. All authors subsequent to Linnaeus who have 

 cited the Rumphian description and figure have followed Lin- 

 naeus in the reduction of Catti marus. 



