420 



RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



Retz. by various authors, but this does not seem to be the proper 

 disposition of it. I agree with Scott * that it conforms much 

 better with Diospyros ebenum Koen. than with D. ebenaster 

 Retz. The exact identity of Hebenaster cannot be determined 

 until actual Moluccan specimens are available for comparison. 

 Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 227, erroneously refers it to his 

 Diospyros decandra; but Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1859) 1047, 

 definitely reduces it to Diospyros ebenum Koen., and Roxburgh, 

 Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 529 expresses the same opinion. Still 

 another species is probably represented by Hebenaster amalyensis 

 Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 15, casually discussed under Hebenaster. 

 Native names given by Rumphius are: Amboina, lolin, lorin, 

 secur; Banda, boa djarong ; Uliassar and Ceram, ahuelli. 



DIOSPYROS KAKI Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 439. 



Anona sariffa Roxb. ex Henschel Vita Rumph. (1833) 142 (type!). 

 Khi Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 137. 



Rumphius describes one of the Chinese persimmons, which 

 Teysmann, quoted by Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 19, refers 

 to Diospyros kaki Linn., this doubtless being the correct disposi- 

 tion of it. Anona sariffa Roxb., as published by Henschel, does 

 not otherwise appear in botanical literature ; it is typified by 

 the Rumphian description and hence becomes a synonym of 

 Diospyros kaki Linn. The name is not listed in Index Kewensis. 



DIOSPYROS sp.? 



Ebenus alba Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 8, t. 3. 



This may ultimately prove to be no Diospyros. The descrip- 

 tion is fair, but the figure of the infructescence does not look 

 like any Diospyros known to me. The reduction follows Teys- 

 mann's opinion as quoted by Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 46. 



SYMPLOCACEAE 



SYMPLOCOS Jacquin 



SYMPLOCOS JAVANICA (Blume) Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 40 2 

 (1871) 64. 



Dicalyx javanicus Blume Bijdr. (1826) 1117. 

 Dicalyx salaccensis Blume L c. 1118. 



Symplocos ferruginea Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 40, nomen nudum; 



Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 542. 

 Arbor aluminosa Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 160, t. 100. 



Symplocos javanica Kurz (S. ferruginea Roxb.) is not repres- 



*Kew Bull. (1915) 65-67. 



