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authors the species has been erroneously reduced to Psidium 

 guajava Linn. Lamarck also cites Cujavillus Rumph. in the 

 original description of Psidium angusti folium Lam. Most 

 authors who have had occasion to cite the Rumphian figure have 

 placed Cujavillus under Psidium pumilum Vahl, but Psidium 

 cujavillus Burm. f . is manifestly the same species and is a much 

 older name. Pritzel, Ic. Bot. Index, has erroneously listed the 

 figure of Cujavillus as Psidium decaspermum Linn. f.=Decas- 

 permum fruticosum Forst. ; while Henschel, with equal error, 

 placed it under Nelitris jamhosella Gaertn.= Timonius jambo- 

 sella Thw. (See also under Decaspermum fruticosum Forst.) 



DECASPERMUM Forster 

 DECASPERMUM FRUTICOSUM Forst. Char. Gen. (1776) 74, t. 37. 



Psidium decaspermum Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 252. 



Eugenia polygama Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 92, nomen nudum, Fl. 



Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 491. 

 Nelitris paniculata Lindl. Collect. Bot. (1821) 16. 

 Nelitris polygama Spreng. Syst. 2 (1825) 488. 



Nelitris rubra Blume Mus. Bot. 1 (1849) 73, excl. syn. Lour., Poir., 



R. & S. 

 Nelitris alba Blume 1. c. 74. 



Decaspermum rubrum Baill. Hist. PI. 6 (1877) 341. 

 Decaspermum paniculatum Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 46 1 (1877) 

 61. 



Caryophyllaster albus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 211. 



Caryophyllaster ruber Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 211, t. 136. 

 Amboina, Hitoe messen, Gelala, and Batoe gadjah, Robinson PL Rumph. 

 Amb. 205, 206, 207, August to September, 1913, in forests and along 

 streams, altitude 80 to 250 meters. 



Caryophyllaster ruber Lour, was erroneously reduced by Lou- 

 reiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 144, to Antherura rubra Lour., a 

 rubiaceous plant, to which the synonyms Psychotria rubra Poir. 

 and P. antherura R. & S. pertain, although placed by Blume with 

 Caryophyllaster ruber under Nelitris rubra Blume. Poiret, 

 Roemer and Schultes, and Blume cite the Rumphian plant as 

 a synonym of Psychotria rubra Poir., P. antherura R. & S., and 

 Nelitris rubra Blume, respectively. The form described by 

 Rumphius as Caryophyllaster albus I consider to be referable 

 to the same species as Caryophyllaster ruber, and accordingly 

 here reduce it with Nelitris alba Blume to Decaspermum fruti- 

 cosum Forst. Decaspermum fruticosum Forst. and Psidium 

 decaspermum Linn. f. have been confused with Timonius jam- 

 bosella Thw., on account of Gaertner's erroneous reduction of 

 Decaspermum fruticosum Forst. to Nelitris jambosella Gaertn. ; 

 the species figured by Gaertner is a true Timonius, the Ceylon 



