FLACOURTIACEAE 



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The reduction of Pangium made by Reinwardt in the original 

 publication of the genus and species has been followed by all 

 authors and is manifestly the correct disposition of it. The 

 species is of very wide distribution in the Malayan region. 



FLACOURTIA L'Heritier 



FLACOURTIA INDICA (Burm. f.) comb. nov. 



Gmelina indica Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 132, t. 39, f. 5. 



Mespilus sylvestris Burm. Index Univ. Herb. Amb. 7 (1755) [18] 



(type!), non Burm. 1. c. [14]. 

 Flacourtia sepiaria Roxb. PI. Coromandel 1 (1795) 48, t. 68. 

 Flacourtia ramontchi L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. (1784-85) 59, t. 30, 31. 

 Spina spinarum I mas Rumph. Herb. T^mb. 7: 36, t. 19, f. 1, 2. 

 Spina spinarum il femina Rumph. 1. c. 37. 



This species ' is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 Rumphius states, however, that the plant was an introduced 

 one there, originating in Java, where it was common. Spina 

 spinarum Rumph. is the whole basis of Mespilus sylvestris 

 Burm., as published on page 18 of his Index Universalis; it is 

 not included in Index Kewensis. The name is invalid, however, 

 because Burman published the same binomial on page 14 of the 

 same work for an entirely different species, Carissa carandas 

 Linn, (see p. 425). I consider that the form figured and 

 described by Rumphius is the same as Flacourtia sepiaria Roxb., 

 from which I cannot distinguish F. ramontchi L'Herit. Lin- 

 naeus cites the first figure as a synonym of Carissa spinarum 

 Linn., but the plant actually described and hence the type of 

 the species is a true Carissa; figure 3 of the same plate, the 

 type of Mespilus silvestris Burm. Index Universalis [14] non 

 [18], is apparently a true Carissa. Linnaeus, in his erroneous 

 reduction of Spina spinarum Rumph., was followed by Murray, 

 Lamarck, Willdenow, Roemer and Schultes, Dietrich, and 

 Pritzel. Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 634, cites the Rumphian 

 species under Stigmarota jangomas Lour. = Flacourtia jangomas 

 (Lour.) Steud. By other authors it has been referred to 

 Damnacanthus indicus Gaertn., of the Rubiaceae; to Flacourtia 

 jangomas Steud.; to Roumea sp.= Flacourtia; and to Flacourtia 

 cataphracta Roxb. It is possible that Spina spinarum II femina 

 Rumph. represents a species distinct from Spina spinarum I mas. 

 Burman's Gmelina indica supplies the oldest valid specific name 

 for the species and is here adopted. Burman's type was from 

 Java, for which he cites the Javanese name doery roekan. 



