406 RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



OENOTHERACEAE 



JUSSIEUA Linnaeus 



JUSSIEUA SUFFRUTICOSA Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 388. 



Herba vitilaginum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 49, t. 21, f. 1. 

 Amboina, Robinson PL Rumph. A.mb. 259, July 25, 1913, in wet places 

 near the town of Amboina. 



Herba vitilaginum was reduced by Linnaeus to Jussieua suf- 

 fruticosa, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 26, Amoen. Acad. 

 4 (1759) 134, but in his Systema, ed. 10 (1759) 1021, he errone- 

 ously cited t. Jfl instead of t. 21. In the second edition of his 

 Species Plantarum (1762) 556 he erroneously placed it under 

 Jussieua erecta Linn., an American species. By other authors 

 it has been placed under Jussieua angustifolia Lam. Encycl. 3 

 (1789) 331, Lamarck himself citing the Rumphian description 

 and figure as possibly or probably representing his species. The 

 actual type was a Javan specimen, and the species does not 

 appear to be specifically distinct from the older J. suffruticosa 

 Linn. 



ARALIACEAE 



OSMOXYLON Miquel 



OSMOXYLON UMBELLIFERUM (Lam.) comb. nov. 



Aralia umbellifera Lam. Encycl. 1 (1783) 224 (type!). 

 Hedera umbellifera DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 262 (type!). 

 Hedera amboinensis DC. ex Boerl. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 6 (1887) 

 124, in syn. 



Gastonia saururoides Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 90, nomen nudum. 

 Gastonia sasuroides Roxb. PI. Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 408. 

 Osmoxylon amboinense Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1 (1863) 6. 

 Pseudo-Sandalum amboinense Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 54, t. 12. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections 

 and is not definitely known to be represented by Amboina speci- 

 mens in any herbarium. Pseudo-sandalum amboinense Rumph., 

 which is excellently figured, is the whole basis of Aralia umbelli- 

 fera Lam. ; and this, being the earliest valid specific name for 

 the species, is here adopted. The figure is cited by de Candolle 

 and by Miquel, while Boerlage, Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 6 

 (1887) 124, confines Osmoxylon amboinense Miq. to the Amboina 

 plant originally described and figured by Rumphius, redescribing 

 the New Guinea specimen, cited by Miquel, as Osmoxylon 

 miquelii Boerl. Amboina material is necessary for study and 

 comparison, however, before the relationships of the two forms 



