400 



RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



EUGENIA sp.? 



Perticaria ferrea parvifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 80, t. 52. 



The figure resembles Eugenia in many characters, yet if the 

 flowers be correctly delineated, the plant can be no Eugenia, 

 and hardly a myrtaceous one. Its status is indeterminable from 

 material and data at present available. 



EUGENIA sp.? 



Perticaria ferrea latifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 80. 



This may or may not belong in the same genus with the 

 preceding one. Its status is entirely uncertain, and it may not 

 even belong in the Myrtaceae. 



EUGENIA sp. 



Jambosa silvestris alba Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 81. 



This is a Eugenia of the section Jambosa, but its further 

 identity is entirely doubtful. 



METROSIDEROS * Banks 



M ETROSI DEROS VERA Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 37 (type!); Lindl. 

 Collect. Bot. (1821) t. 18. 

 Nania vera Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 1 (1855) 400. 



Syncarpia vertholenii Teysm. & Binn. in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. 2 



(1851) 307, Nederl. Kruidk. Arch. 3 (1855) 411. 

 Metrosideros vera parvifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 16, t. 7. 

 Metrosideros vera latifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 16, 19. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 Metrosideros vera, usually accredited to Lindley as its author, 

 should be accredited to Roxburgh instead. The original publica- 

 tion of the name was based wholly on Rumphius by citation of the 

 illustration, in Hortus Bengalensis (1814) 37.f It was later 

 described by Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 477, from speci- 

 mens cultivated at Calcutta, which had been introduced into the 

 botanic garden from Amboina. Syncarpia vertholenii Teysm. 

 & Binn. was described from Amboina specimens, and its authors 

 reduced to it Metrosideros vera parvifolia Rumph. The first 

 reduction was that made by Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 309, 

 to Opa metrosideros Lour. Opa metrosideros Lour, is not at 

 all Metrosideros vera Roxb., but is a synonym of Raphiolepis 

 indica (Linn.) Lindl., of the Rosaceae. The form described by 

 Rumphius as Metrosideros vera latifolia does not appear to 



* Retained name, Brussels Congress; Nani Adans. (1763) is older, 

 t See C. B. Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 414. 



