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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



OLEACEAE 



JASMINUM Linnaeus 



J ASM IN UM SAMBAC (Linn.) Ait. Hort. Kew. 1 (1789) 8. 

 Nyctanthes sambac Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 6. 

 Flos manorae Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 52, t. 30. 

 Amboina, Binting, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 258, August 13, 1913, on 

 limestone formation at an altitude of about 2 meters. 



The reduction to Nyctanthes sambac was made by Linnaeus in 

 the year following the publication of that species, Stickman 

 Herb. Amb. (1754) 19, and appears in Linnaeus's later publica- 

 tions; but in the more modern literature it is placed under 

 Jasminum sambac (Linn.) Ait., this being certainly its proper 

 disposition. Here should be referred not only Flos manorae 

 Rumph., but also Flos manorae plenus Rumph. 1. c. 52, t. SO A; the 

 latter being the commonly cultivated form of Jasminum sambac 

 with double flowers. 



JASMINUM sp. 



Jasminum litoreum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 54 (non 2: 86, t. U6) . 



The species described is undoubtedly a true Jasminum, and 

 from the description and habitat given by Rumphius I make 

 the suggestion that the plant may prove to be the same as 

 the widely distributed Malayan species, /. bif avium Wall. This 

 species, however, does not appear in our Amboina collections. 

 Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 94, made the suggestion that 

 it might be a Jasminum, but he was not sure as to the genus 

 and suggested no species. The reference is unimportant, and 

 no other author has even suggested a possible identification for 

 the plant described by Rumphius. Jasminum litoreum Rumph. 

 Herb. Amb. 2: 84, t. 46, is Clerodendron commersonii (Lam.) 

 Spreng. 



MYXOPYRUM Blume 



MYXOPYRUM MACROLOBUM A. W. Hill in Kew Bull. (1910) 42. 

 Sirioides alter Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 50, t. 29, f. 1? 

 Amboina, Paso, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 518, October 29, 1913, on trees 

 along the beach. A fruiting specimen. 



Sirioides alter, as figured by Rumphius, was reduced by 

 Kosteletzky, Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 3 (1834) 1074, to Strychnos 

 bicirrhosa Lesch., but is certainly not the species described by 

 Leschenault in Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2 (1824) 267=5. colubrina Linn. 

 There are serious objections to the reduction of Sirioides alter 

 to Myxopyrum, but it is certainly Myxopyrum in part. The 

 figure shows a plant with tendrils, which is no Myxopyrum but 



