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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



The specimen certainly represents the plant that Rumphius 

 briefly described as Bintangor montana, but it appears to be an 

 undescribed species. Unfortunately no flowers are available, 

 so that it is impossible to determine the true relationships of 

 the form within the genus Calophyllum. The leaves are lanceo- 

 late, 6 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, acute at the base, and 

 gradually narrowed in the upper one-half to the rather slender 

 and blunt-acuminate apex. The fruits are less than 1 cm in di- 

 ameter. The plant is entirely glabrous except the ferruginous- 

 pubescent buds. 



GARCINIA Linnaeus 



GARCINIA AM BOI N ENSIS Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2 (1825) 448 (type!). 

 Folium acidum majus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 58, t. 32. 



This is a species of very doubtful status, based entirely on 

 Folium acidum majus Rumph. Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 

 648, referred it to Oxy carpus cochinchinensis Lour. = Gar cinia 

 cochinchinensis Choisy, a species based on Cochin-China speci- 

 mens, quite different from the Amboina plant described by 

 Rumphius and known only from Indo-China.* Doctor Robinson 

 collected in Amboina typical Gar cinia dulcis Kurz, which he 

 thought probably represented Folium acidum majus. However, 

 while agreeing with the figure in many respects and with the 

 description in part, the discrepancies are too great to warrant 

 the citation of this specimen as representing the Rumphian plant. 

 Boerlage, Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. (1899) 75, refers to Gar cinia 

 amboinensis Spreng., two specimens, originating in Amboina and 

 cultivated in the botanic garden at Buitenzorg. I have sterile 

 specimens of one of these, "VI-F-11," which certainly agrees 

 better with the original figure and description than does Gar- 

 cinia dulcis Kurz, and which may represent Folium acidum majus 

 in spite of certain discrepancies between the specimen and the 

 figure and description. 



GARCINIA DULCIS (Roxb.) Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 43 2 (1874) 88. 

 Xanthochymus dulcis Roxb. PI. Coromandel 3 (1819) i. 270. ' 

 Mundo Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 135. 

 Amboina, Hitoe lama, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 478, October 8, 1913, in 

 forests, altitude about 175 meters. 



The reduction of Mundo is based almost wholly on the native 

 name, the brief description being entirely inadequate. It was 

 from Java, and the native names mundo, munder, etc., are still 



* See Vesque in DC. Monog. Phan. 8 (1893) 449. 



