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island near the western end of Java. Butonica rumphiana Miers 

 is certainly identical with Mammea asiatica IArm.=Barringtonia 

 asiatica Kurz. 



BARRINGTONIA RACEMOSA (Linn.) Blume ex DC. Prodr. 3 (1828) 288; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 634. 



Eugenia racemosa Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 471. 



Stravadia alba Pers. Syn. 2 (1807) 30. 



Stravadium album DC. Prodr. 3 (1828) 289. 



Barringtonia alba Blume in Fl. des Serres I 7 (1851-52) 23. 



Barringtonia Alba Kostel. Allgem. Med. Pharm. Fl. 4 (1835) 1536. 



Stravadium rubrum DC. Prodr. 3 (1828) 289, p. p., quoad syn. Rumph. 



Butonica terrestris Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 1 (1875) 69. 



Barringtonia rubra Blume Fl. des Serres I 7 (1851-52) 23. 



Butonica rubra Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 1 (1875) 70. 



Barringtonia inclyta Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 1 (1875) 71. 



Butonica terrestris rubra Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 181 ! (t. 115?). 



Butonica terrestris alba Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 181, t. 116. 

 Amboina, Paso, Robinson Rumph. Amb. 467, November 25, 1913, near 

 the beach. 



This much-named species is widely distributed along and 

 near the seashore from India to Malaya and Polynesia. Miers 

 has attempted with little success to distinguish several species. 

 As the proper authority for Barringtonia racemosa, I have 

 selected Blume (1828) in preference to Roxburgh, as Roxburgh's 

 original use of the name, Hort. Beng. (1814) 52, is a nomen 

 nudum. 



In previous reductions of the Rumphian descriptions and 

 figures, practically all authors have assumed that two species 

 were involved. Butonica terrestris alba was originally reduced 

 by Linnaeus to Eugenia racemosa Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. 

 (1754) 14, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 124, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1055, 

 Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 673; but other authors have reduced it to 

 Barringtonia acutangula Gaertn., to Stravadia alba Pers., to 

 Barringtonia alba Kostel., to Butonica alba Miers, etc. The 

 description and the figure apply unmistakably to Barringtonia 

 racemosa (Linn.) Blume as here interpreted. 



The description of Butonica terrestris rubra Rumph. is un- 

 mistakably Barringtonia racemosa (Linn.) Blume, as here 

 interpreted, but the figure, which is poor, may represent an- 

 other species, possibly Barringtonia acutangula Gaertn. In 

 Rumphius's description note: 



Folia * * * unum vel sesquipedem longi, immo longiora * * * 

 palmam nempe lata, vel paulo latiora * * *. Flores ex longo, tenui, & 

 dependente petiolo, binos pedes longo * * * huic viridia insident capita 

 instar Olivarum tenerarum, per ilium laxe dispersa, quae sese aperiunt in 

 bina vel terna crassa & concava petala [sepals] . 



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