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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



HOMALIUM Jacquin 



HOMALIUM FOETIDUM (Roxb.) Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 4 



(1860) 37. 



Ludia foetida Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 38, nomen nudum, Fl. Ind. 



ed. 2, 2 (1832) 508. 

 Blackwellia foetida Wall. Cat. (1831) no. 4899, nomen nudum, Deles- 



sert Ic. 3 (1837) 32, t. 53. 

 Blackwellia moluccana Blume Mus. Bot. 2 (1852) 27 (type!). 

 Metrosideros molucca mas Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 25, t. 11. 



Nothing resembling this species is represented in our Amboina 

 collections. Homalium foetidum Benth. includes more than one 

 species, the Mergui specimen cited being apparently Homalium 

 griffithianum Kurz. It is to be noted that Bentham does not 

 cite Ludia foetida Roxb. as a synonym of Homalium foetidum. 

 Benth. He based his species on Blackwellia foetida Wall., but 

 Wallich quotes Ludia foetida Roxb. as a synonym; the type of 

 Ludia foetida Roxb. was a specimen cultivated in Calcutta, orig- 

 inating in Amboina. In Index Kewensis Ludia foetida Roxb. 

 is reduced to Flacourtia sumatrana Planch. Blackwellia moluc- 

 cana Blume is based wholly on the Rumphian description and 

 figure. Teysmann, quoted by Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 

 47, thought that Metrosideros molucca mas might be a Helicia, 

 but this suggested reduction is manifestly entirely wrong. 



CARICACEAE 



CARICA Linnaeus 



CARICA PAPAYA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1036. 

 Papaya vulgaris Lam. Encycl. 5 (1804) 2. 

 Papaja mas et femina Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 145, t. 50, 51. 



Rumphius's illustrations of the common papaya are excellent. 

 The first reduction to Carica papaya Linn, was made by Lin- 

 naeus, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 7, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 

 119, which is manifestly the correct disposition of Papaja 

 Rumph. and is generally accepted by all authors. 



DATISCACEAE 



OCTOMELES Miquel 



OCTOMELES SUMATRANA Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. (1860) 336. 



Octomeles moluccana Teysm. & Binn. ex Hassk. in Abhandl. Nuturf. 



Gesellsch. Halle 9 (1866) 208 (Neue Schliissel 66) (type!). 

 Octomeles moluccana Warb. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 13 (1891) 386. 

 Palacca Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 195, t. 125. 



Teysmann and Binnnendyck, quoted by Hasskarl, Neue 



