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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



SCHEFFLERA Forster 



SCHEFFLERA sp. 



Brassaia littorea Seem. Journ. Bot. 2 (1864) 244 (type!). 

 Papaja litorea Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 150, t. 52. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 Brassaia littorea Seem, was based wholly on Rumphius's figure 

 and description. As its status is entirely uncertain, no direct 

 transfer is here made to Schefflera, where Papaja litorea Rumph. 

 manifestly belongs. Walpers, Repert. 2 (1843) 430, reduced it to 

 Aralia longifolia Reinw., the original publication of which I 

 have not seen, but which is apparently the same as the Javanese 

 Sciodaphyllum longifolium Blume ; in Index Kewensis the latter 

 is given as a synonym of Brassaia littorea, Seem. It has also 

 been referred to Paratropia longifolia DC. by DeVriese, PL 

 Ind. Bat. Or. (1845) 89, and was mentioned by Miquel, Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. 1 1 (1856-57) 760, following Paratropia macrostachya Miq., 

 ' as a possible representative of Paratropia. Teysmann, cited 

 by Hasskarl, Neue Schllissel (1866) 20, thought that it might 

 possibly be Paratropia macrostachya Miq. The species is such 

 a characteristic one and has such large leaflets and long petioles, 

 that it should be readily recognized when once collected in 

 Amboina. 



POLYSCIAS Forster 



POLYSCIAS NODOSA (Blume) Seem, in Journ. Bot. 3 (1865) 181. 



Aralia nodosa Blume Bijdr. (1826) 873. 

 Paratropia nodosa DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 265. 



Hedera nodosa Hassk. in Hoev. & De Vriese Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. 10 

 (1843) 131. 



Aralia umbraculif era Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 22, nomen nudum, 



Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 108. 

 Eupteron nodosum Miq. in Bonplandia 4 (1856) 139; Fl. Ind. Bat. 



1 1 (1857) 762. 



Papaja silvestris Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 149, t. 53, f. 1. 

 Amboina, Ermes, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 386, August 9, 1913, on 

 forested hillsides, altitude about 250 meters, locally known as pata tulan 

 and patu tulong. 



The figure is very poor and is scarcely recognizable as Poly- 

 scias nodosa Seem., yet the description applies unmistakably 

 to this species. Willdeno.w, Sp. PI. 2 (1799) 549, mislead by the 

 very poor figure, erroneously referred it to Bergera koenigii 

 Linn. Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 108, cites it as a syn- 

 onym of his Aralia umbraculif era, which was described from 

 specimens cultivated in the botanic garden at Calcutta, origin- 

 ating in the Moluccas, and which is an exact synonym of 



