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recently been described by Elmer as Lepiniopsis philippinensis 

 Elm. Pulassarius Rumph. is manifestly identical with Lepin- 

 iopsis ternatensis Valet. ; the Rumphian plant, up to the present 

 time, has not been reduced to any modern genus or species. 



PLUM I ERA (Plumeria) Linnaeus 



PLUM I ERA ACUMINATA Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 2 (1811) 70. 



Plumiera acutifolia Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 2 (1812) 667 (type). 

 Flos convolutus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 85, t. 38. 

 Amboina, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 78, October 27, 1913, on hills 

 behind the town of Amboina, locally known as kalan snsu and kambodja. 



Flos convolutus was originally reduced by Linnaeus, by error, 

 to Plumiera alba Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 16, 

 Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 126, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 944, but in 

 Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 307 he placed it, with doubt, under Plumiera 

 obtusa Linn., in which he was followed by Lamarck, Loureiro, 

 Burman f., and Willdenow. Flos convolutus Rumph. is ap- 

 parently the whole basis of Plumeria acutifolia Poir., which, 

 however, although the commonly used name for the species, is 

 antedated by about one year by Plumiera acuminata Aiton. 



ALSTON I A R. Brown 



ALSTON I A SCHOLARIS (Linn.) R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. 1 (1809) 75. 

 Echites scholaris Linn. Mant. 1 (1867) 55. 

 Lignum scholare Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 246, t. 82. 



Not represented in our Amboina collections. Lignum scholare 

 Rumph. was originally reduced by Linnaeus, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 

 945, to Tabernaemontana citrifolia Linn., with which species 

 it has very little in common. Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 69, 

 erroneously reduced it to Tabernaemontana alternifolia Linn. It 

 is cited by Linnaeus in the original description of Echites 

 scholaris Linn. ; it is, at least in part, the basis of this species 

 and hence of Alstonia scholaris (Linn.) R. Br. I can see no 

 valid reason for considering that the plant figured by Rumphius 

 is other than the one described, yet various authors, following 

 R. Brown and A. de Candolle, have considered that the descrip- 

 tion refers to Alstonia scholaris R. Br. and the figure to Alstonia 

 spectabilis R. Br. 



ALSTONIA SUBSESSILIS Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 4 (1868) 140. 

 Cofassus citrina Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 30, t. 15. 



Amboina, Hitoe messen, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 77, October 10, 1913, 

 on forested limestone hills, altitude about 150 meters. 



Previously no definite determination of Cofassus citrina 

 Rumph. has been made, other than Burman's statement that 



