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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



festly had specimens before him when writing the description. 

 Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 318, places it under Phoberos 

 chinensis Lour.; Endlicher placed it under Damnacanthus ; and 

 Dietrich placed it under Canthium indicum Dietr.= Damnacan- 

 thus indicus Gaertn. It is the whole basis of Mespilus silvestris 

 Burm. as published on page 14 of his "Index Universalis," but 

 Mespilus silvestris Burm. as published on page 18 of the same 

 work is entirely different and is Flacourtia indica (Burm. f.) 

 Merr. Blume reduced Oxyacantha javana Rumph. to Carissa 

 carandas Linn., but there are certain objections to this reduction 

 in Rumphius's description. I cannot, however, suggest any more 

 likely reduction of it. If correctly placed, Burman's specific name 

 is the oldest valid one, but no change is here made owing to the 

 uncertain status of Oxyacantha javana Rumph. Spina pectinata 

 Rumph., Herb. Amb. 7: 39, probably also belongs here. 



CHILOCARPUS Blume 



CHILOCARPUS sp. 



Funis pulassarius Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 34, t. 21. 

 Amboina, Gelala, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. September 19, 1913, 



along small streams, altitude about 120 meters. 



Rumphius's figure is unmistakably that of a species of Chilo- 

 carpus; so far as I can determine from the material available 

 for study, it has remained undescribed in modern botanical litera- 

 ture. The Amboina specimen I have referred here presents 

 only immature flowers, and as the Rumphian figure presents no 

 inflorescences, but only a branch with leaves and fruits, 1 con- 

 sider it advisable for the present merely to refer Funis pulassa- 

 rius Rumph. to the genus only. Teysmann, quoted by Hasskarl, 

 Neue Schliissel (1866) 92, considered that Funis pulassarius 

 Rumph. represented a species of Chilocarpus. 



LEPINIOPSIS Valeton 



LEPINIOPSIS TERNATENSIS Valet, in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 12 (1895) 



352, t. 28. 



Pulassarius arbor Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 90, t. 60. 

 Amboina, Hitoe lama, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 73, October 8, 1913, 

 in forests, altitude about 200 meters. 



The genus Lepiniopsis Valeton, a very characteristic one, was 

 originally described from specimens cultivated in the botanic 

 garden at Buitenzorg, Java, originating in Ternate Island. 

 Later, what I took to be the same species was collected in 

 Mindanao and has now been found to be rather widely distrib- 

 uted in the southern and central Philippines ; this has still more 



