MYRSINACEAE 



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Schultes, Henschel, Kosteletzky, Don, Endlicher, Walpers, 

 Pritzel, A. de Candolle, and Miquel. Rumphius's figure, while 

 crude, is a fair representation of Maesa tetrandra A. DC, the 

 type of which was from the Moluccas, probably Amboina, while 

 the description applies perfectly. I consider the correctness of 

 this reduction absolutely certain. 



The form described in the same chapter as Perlarius III silvestris 

 is one of uncertain status. It may be an allied species of Maesa 

 or may refer to a species of some other genus or even of some 

 other family; Teysmann, quoted by Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel 

 (1866) 84, thought that it might be a Callicarpa. 



AEGICERAS Gaertner 



AEGICERAS CORNICULATUM (Linn.) Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 79. 



Rhizophora corniculata Linn, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 13, 

 Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 123 (type!). 



Rhizophora aegiceras Gmel. Syst. (1791) 747. 



Aegiceras majus Gaertn. Fruct. 1 (1788) 216, t. J^6. 



Aegiceras minus Gaertn. Fruct. 1 (1788) 216 p. p., quoad syn. Rumph. 



Umbraculum comiculatum 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PL 1 (1891) 405. 



Mangium fruticans I comiculatum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 117, t. 77. 



Umbraculum maris ceramense Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 124, t. 82. 



Umbraculum maris amboinense Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 124. 

 Amboina, Ayer putri, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 25J>, July 28, 1913, along 

 tidal streams, locally known as brappat. 



Mangium fruticans I comiculatum Rumph. is the whole basis 

 of Rhizophora corniculata Linn.= Aegiceras comiculatum 

 (Linn.) Blanco, as cited in Stickman, Herb. Amb. (1754) 13, 

 Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 123, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1043, Sp. PL 

 ed. 2 (1762) 635. It has also been cited by various authors 

 under Aegiceras majus Gaertn. and under Aegiceras fragrans 

 Koenig, both synonyms of Aegiceras comiculatum (Linn.) 

 Blanco. Umbraculum maris ceramense Rumph. is manifestly 

 the same as Mangium fruticans I comiculatum Rumph. and was 

 reduced by Gaertner, Fruct. 1 (1788) 216, to Aegiceras minus 

 Gaertn. in the original description of that species. Aegiceras 

 minus Gaertn. is, however, to be typified by the species figured 

 by him, a Ceylon plant, which is Rourea santaloides (Vahl) 

 W. & A.=Rourea minor (Gaertn.). Willdenow, Persoon, Poiret, 

 Roemer and Schultes, Sprengel, Henschel, Spanoghe, de Candolle, 

 Pritzel, and Miquel have followed Gaertner in this reduction, but 

 Aegiceras minus Gaertn., in part, only as to the Rumphian syn- 

 onym, is Aegiceras comiculatum (Linn.) Blanco. Umbraculum 

 maris amboinensis Rumph. is placed here after Mez in Engl. 



