414 



RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



Pflanzenreich 9 (1902) 56, but may well be the same as Aegiceras 

 floridum Roem. & Schultes. 



AEGICERAS FLORIDUM Roem. & Schultes Syst. 4 (1819) 512 (type!). 



Aegiceras ferreum Blume Bijdr. (1826) 693. 



Aegiceras nigricans A. Rich. Voy. Astrolabe 2 (1834) 57, t. 21. 

 Mangium floridum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 125, t. 83. 

 Mangium ferreum mas Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 120 p. p., quoad t. 79, 

 f.A,B. 



Mangium fruticans I! parvifolium Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 117. 

 Amboina, Paso, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 253, October 31, 1913, along 

 the seashore. 



Mangium floridum Rumph. is the whole basis of Aegiceras 

 floridum Roem. & Schultes, a species very different from Aegi- 

 ceras corniculatum (Linn.) Blanco. The flowering and fruiting 

 branchlets figured on t. 79, /. A, B, under Mangium ferreum 

 Rumph. are also manifestly referable to Aegiceras floridum 

 R. & S., although Mangium ferreum Rumph. is for the most 

 part Pemphis acidula Forst. (see p. 382). Mangium fruticans 

 II parvifolium Rumph. is also apparently referable to this species, 

 judging from the description; while Umbraculum maris am- 

 boinense Rumph., Herb. Amb. 3: 124, may be referable to 

 Aegiceras floridum R. & S., rather than to Aegiceras cornicu- 

 latum (Linn.) Blanco where I have placed it. 



PLUMBAGINACEAE 



PLUMBAGO Linnaeus 



PLUMBAGO INDICA Linn, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 24, Amoen. 

 Acad. 4 (1759) 133 (type!). 

 Plumbago rosea Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 215. 

 Plumbago coccinea Salisb. Prodr. (1796) 122. 

 Radix vesicatoria Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 453, t. 168. 



Amboina, Way tommo, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 221, August 16, 1913. 



Plumbago indica Linn., validly published by citation of 

 Rumphius, is not included in Index Kewensis, and this specific 

 name has been entirely overlooked by all botanists. Linnaeus, 

 Systema, ed. 10 (1759) 921, abandoned the name Plumbago 

 indica and erroneously referred Radix vesicatoria to Plumbago 

 zeylanica Linn. In the Species Plantarum, ed. 2 (1762) 215, he 

 referred it correctly to Plumbago rosea Linn., but this now 

 becomes a synonym of the older name, Plumbago indica Linn. 

 The description is unmistakably that of the plant commonly 

 known as Plumbago rosea Linn, and as P. coccinea Salisb.; the 

 figure is not particularly good, although manifestly a Plumbago. 



