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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



specimens here assigned to it. Sirioides has not previously been 

 definitely placed, Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 94, merely 

 indicating that it pertains to the Piperaceae, manifestly an 

 entirely erroneous identification. Sirioides alter, described by 

 Rumphius in the same chapter and figured, t. 29, f. 1, seems to 

 be Myxopyrum, although the drawing may be a combination of 

 Myxopyrum and Strychnos characters (see p. 422, under 

 Myxopyrum) . I am under obligations to Mr. A. W. Hill, of the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, for the identification of the above speci- 

 mens with Strychnos barbata A. W. Hill. The species was 

 previously known only from New Guinea. Mr. Hill writes that 

 the specific determination of No. 612 is not certain, as it is 

 in fruit, while the venation of the leaves is not quite the same 

 as in the other number cited here, which is in flower. 



FAGRAEA Thunberg' 



FAGRAEA AM BOI N ENSIS Blume Mus. Bot. 1 (1850) 166. 



Fagraea littoralis Blume var. amboinensis Blume Rumphia 2 (1836) 28. 

 Funis toaccae Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 481, t. 179. 

 Amboina, Mahiya and Way tommo, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 519, 

 August, 1913, on limestone rocks and on trees, altitude 25 to 300 meters; 

 Hitoe lama, PI. Rumph. Amb. 2J+U, November, 1913, along roadsides in 

 light forests, altitude about 50 meters, locally known as tonki utan. 



Funis toaccae Rumph. is well figured, but rather poorly de- 

 scribed, perhaps erroneously described as to the seeds, the seed 

 characters assigned perhaps pertaining to some apocynaceous 

 plant. The description otherwise and the figure conform very 

 closely to the plants here identified as Fagraea amboinensis 

 Blume. Blume himself discusses Funis toaccae Rumph. in the 

 original description of Fagraea littoralis Blume var. amboinensis 

 Blume. As to the status of Fagraea amboinensis Blume as a 

 species distinct from other described and allied forms of the 

 same genus, I can express no opinion, other than that I do not 

 consider it the same as the Javan Fagraea littoralis Blume. 



GENTIANACEAE 



LIMNANTHEMUM Linnaeus 



LIMNANTHEMUM INDICUM (Linn.) Griseb. Gen. Sp. Gent. (1839) 343. 

 Menyanthes indica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 145. 



Nymphaea indica minor II ceramica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 173, 



t. 72, f. 3. 



The Rumphian species was originally reduced to Menyanthes 

 indica Linn., by Linnaeus in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 28, 



