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spurium Choisy, in Vita Rumph. (1833) 156, following Rumph- 

 ius's comparison of it with Tsjerou-Ponna of Rheede, Hort. 

 Malabar. 4: 81. Its status is indeterminable from the data at 

 present available, although it undoubtedly belongs in the Sapo- 

 taceae. This was Teysmann's disposition of it, as quoted by 

 Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 55. 



EBENACEAE 



MABA Forster 



MABA BUXI FOLIA (Rottb.) Pers. Syn. 2 (1807) 606? 



Pisonia ? buxifolia Rottb. in Nye Saml. Kong. Danske Skrift. 2 



(1783) 536, t. U, /• 2. 

 Maba ebenus Spreng. Syst. 2 (1825) 126 (type!). 

 Ebenus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 1, t. 1. 



Nothing resembling this is represented in our Amboina col- 

 lections. Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 613, discusses it under 

 his Ebenoxylum verum, which manifestly is a species of Maba, 

 but certainly not Maba elliptica Forst. where it was placed by 

 Hiern, Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 12 (1873) 122. Loureiro's 

 species must be interpreted from his original specimens or, 

 failing these, from Cochin-China material. It is apparently a 

 form of Maba buxifolia Pers. or a closely allied species. Maba 

 ebenus Spreng. is based wholly on Rumphius and must be 

 interpreted from the Rumphian figure and description. From 

 Rumphius's description of the flower as 3-merous the species is 

 a Maba, not a Diospyros. 



Ebenus e Madagascar Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 6 is indetermin- 

 able; Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 46, suggested that it might 

 be Maba madagascariensis A. DC. 



DIOSPYROS Linnaeus 



DIOSPYROS MARITIMA Blume Bijdr. (1825) 669. 



Ebenus molucca Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 6, t. 2. 



Nothing resembling this species is presented by our Amboina 

 collections. Ebenus molucca Rumph. is certainly a species of 

 Diospyros, and it is either D. maritima Blume or a very closely 

 allied form. Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1859) 1049, suggested that 

 the Rumphian plant pertained to Diospyros, but no further deter- 

 mination of it has been suggested by other authors. 



DIOSPYROS E BEN U M Koen. in Physiogr. Salsk. Handl. 1 (1776) 176? 

 Hebenaster Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 13, t. 6. 



Nothing resembling this species occurs in our Amboina col- 

 lections. Hebenaster has been referred to Diospyros ebenaster 



