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can be satisfactorily determined. Gastonia sasuroides Roxb. 

 (or saururoides) is a probable synonym, as suggested by Miquel; 

 in literature generally it is given as G. saururoides Roxb., as 

 originally printed in the Hortus Bengalensis. However, in Rox- 

 burgh's Flora Indica it is given as G. sasuroides. In the very 

 short description the Rumphian figure is cited as being nearly 

 allied, and the specific name was taken from the local name 

 sasuru, cited by Rumphius. Roxburgh's type was from the 

 Moluccas. 



BOERLAGIODEN DRON Harms 



BOERLAGIODEN DRON PALMATUM (Lam.) Harms in Engl. & Prantl 



Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3 8 (1894) 31. 

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

 Trevesia zippeliana Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1863) 11. 

 Trevesia moluccana Miq. in Bonplandia 4 (1856) 137, Fl. Ind. Bat. 



1 1 (1857) 748. 



Eschweileria palmata Zipp. ex Boerl. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 6 



(1887) 116, t. U. 

 Unjala bifida Reinw. ex Boerl. 1. c. „ 

 Osmoxyion molnccanum Becc. Malasia 1 (1878) 195. 

 Osmoxylon zippelianum Becc. 1. c. 



Folium polypi mas (et femina?) Rumph Herb. Amb. 4: 101, t. Jf3. 

 Amboina, Lateri, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 389, September 5, 1913, in 

 light forests, altitude 20 meters; Soja, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 388, 

 August 31, 1913, in forests, altitude 375 meters, locally known as papaya 

 utan and poppya utan. 



Folium polypi as figured and described by Rumphius is the 

 whole basis of Aralia palmata Lam., which supplies the oldest 

 valid specific name for this rather much-named species. All 

 early authors, who had occasion to consider it, followed Lamarck 

 in this reduction; but Miquel, overlooking the fact that the 

 Rumphian figure and description typified Aralia palmata Lam., 

 referred it to Trevesia moluccana Miq. The synonymy is given 

 by Roerlage, Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 6 (1887) 116, who in 

 taking up Zippel's unpublished name Eschweileria overlooked 

 or ignored, as a synonym of Lecythis, the previous use of the 

 same name by Martius for a South American genus of Lecy- 

 thidaceae; Eschiveilera Mart, is now recognized as a valid 

 genus distinct from Lecythis. Harms accordingly proposed the 

 new generic name Boerlagiodendron, no other being available 

 for the plants Boerlage placed in Eschweileria Zipp. Boerlage 

 gives an ample description of the species and an excellent illustra- 

 tion and cites specimens from Amboina, Banda, and Celebes. 



