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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



Pierre, originating in the botanic garden at Buitenzorg, Java, 

 which bears the native name kiras. Specimens of "VI-A-12a," 

 "VI-A-16," and "VI-C-18a" from the Buitenzorg Botanic Garden 

 certainly represent the same species, and agree well with the 

 Rumphian figure and description of Mangostana celebica. Boer- 

 lage, Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. (1899) 69, concluded also that 

 Garcinia rumphii Pierre is the same as Mangostana celebica 

 Rumph. and is a synonym of Garcinia celebica Linn. The Am- 

 boina specimen collected by Robinson, cited above, should be 

 critically compared with the closely allied Garcinia porrecta 

 Wall. var. schizogyna Boerl. 1. c. 69. 



GARCINIA MANGOSTANA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 443. 

 Mangostana Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 132, t. U3. 



The mangosteen is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 Mangostana was one of the few species figured and described 

 by Rumphius that was reduced by Linnaeus in the first edition 

 of the Species Plantarum, where it is cited under Garcinia 

 mangostana Linn. The reduction is certainly correct and has 

 been followed by all authors. 



GARCINIA CORNEA Murr. Syst. Veg. (1774) 368 (type!). 

 Lignum corneum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 55, t. 30. 



Not represented in our Amboina collections. Lignum cor- 

 neum Rumph. is the whole basis of Garcinia cornea Murr., and 

 the status of the species is now well known. It is a very charac- 

 teristic species and occurs in cultivation in the botanic garden 

 at Buitenzorg, Java; "VI-C-144" and "VI-C-144a" represent 

 staminate and pistillate plants, both originating in Amboina. 

 Murray has been consistently followed by all authors in this 

 reduction of Lignum corneum. The two forms indicated and 

 briefly described by Rumphius as latifolium and angustif olium 

 are indeterminable from data now available. The former may 

 be Garcinia latissima Miq., and the latter possibly Garcinia dulcis 

 Roxb. 



GARCINIA PICRORHIZA Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1866) 209. 

 Pharmacum sagueri legitimum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 136, t. UU- 



Boerlage, Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. (1899) 67, made this reduc- 

 tion, and I consider that he is correct, after a comparison of 

 the Rumphian figure and description with authentic specimens 

 of Miquel's species, duplicates from the numbers cited by Boer- 

 lage. Previous to Boerlage's reduction of the Rumphian plant 



