384 



RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



to be called Sonneratia pagatpat Blanco. Botanists very gen- 

 erally, since the publication of Sonneratia acida Linn. f. in 1781, 

 have referred to it Mangium caseolare rubrum of Rumphius, 

 including tt. 7U, 75; but Sonneratia acida Linn. f. is merely a 

 synonym of Sonneratia caseolaris (Linn.) Engl., as interpreted 

 by Engler and as interpreted here. 



PUNICACEAE 



PUNIC A Linnaeus 

 PUNICA GRANATUM Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 472. 



Malum granatum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 94, t. 2U, f. 1. 



The common pomegranate is not represented in our Amboina 

 collections, although it is found in scattered cultivation through- 

 out the Malayan region. Malum granatum was first reduced to 

 Punica granatum Linn, by Linnaeus, in Stickman Herb. Amb. 

 (1753) 9, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 120, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1056, 

 which is manifestly the correct disposition of it. 



LECYTHIDACEAE 



BARRINGTONIA * Forster 



BARRI NGTON I A ASIATICA (Linn.) Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 45 1 

 (1876) 131; 46 2 (1877) 70. 

 Mammea asiatica Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 512. 



Barringtonia speciosa Forst. Char. Gen. (1776) 76 t. 38, f. A-C ; Linn. 



f. Suppl. (1781) 312. 

 Agasta asiatica Miers in Trans Linn. Soc. Bot. 1 (1875) 61. 

 Agasta indica Miers 1. c. 63. 

 Butonica rumphiana Miers 1. c. 68. 

 Butonica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 179, t. UU. 

 Amboina, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. Jf.66, September 16, 1913, along the 

 river near the town of Amboina. 



Butonica was first reduced to Barringtonia speciosa by the 

 younger Linnaeus, Suppl. (1781) 312, which has been followed 

 by all authors except Miers. The latter retains Barringtonia 

 speciosa Forst. as the sole representative of the genus which he 

 confined to Polynesia and removed the Indo-Malayan forms from 

 Barringtonia as Agasta asiatica (Linn.) Miers and A. indica 

 Miers. He has not been followed by subsequent authors, the 

 general conclusions regarding Miers's proposed classification, 

 in which I concur, being that his three species are all merely 

 forms of the common and widely distributed strand plant, Bar- 

 ringtonia asiatica (Linn.) Kurz. The type of the Linnean 

 species, Mammea asiatica, was collected by Osbeck on a small 



* Retained name, Vienna Code; Huttum Adans. (1763) is older. 



