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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



it belonged in the Apocynaceae and Teysmann's opinion, quoted 

 by Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 48, that it was doubtfully 

 a representative of the genus Alstonia. The species is known 

 only from Amboina. The specimen cited above is apparently 

 identical with "IV-A-55" cultivated in the botanic garden at 

 Buitenzorg, Java, from Amboina, under the unpublished name 

 Alstonia hoedti T. & B. 



TABERN AEMONTAN A Plumier 



TABERNAE MONTANA CAPSICOIDES sp. nov. 



Capsicum silvestre Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 133, t. 67. 

 Amboina, Batoe merah, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 76 (type), August 

 11, 1913, on cleared hillsides, altitude 25 to 40 meters; Hitoe messen, PI. 

 Rumph. Amb. 75, October 14, 1913, in forests, altitude about 200 meters. 



Frutex vel arbor parva, glabra; foliis in paribus valde inae- 

 qualibus, oblongis, chartaceis, usque ad 13 cm longis, utrinque 

 subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis vel leviter acuminatis, apice 

 acuminatis, acuminis obtusis vel breviter apiculatis, nervis 

 tenuibus, utrinque 10 ad 12; cymis terminalibus vel in axillis 

 superioribus, plerumque pedunculatis, dichotomis, ebracteolatis, 

 paucifloris; floribus tenuiter pedicellatis, calycis lobis brevibus, 

 obtusis, intus glandulosis, corollae tubo circiter 14 mm longo; 

 folliculis 2 ad 3 cm longis, oblongis, prominente rostrato- 

 acuminatis, patulis, curvatis, leviter 2-carinatis, seminibus 4 ad 

 6. 



A glabrous shrub or small tree 2 to 7 meters high, the branches 

 and branchlets slender, subterete, pale-gray. Leaves oblong, 

 those of each pair distinctly unequal in size, one one-half to 

 two-thirds longer than the other, chartaceous, oblong, somewhat 

 shining, brownish-olivaceous on the upper surface when dry, 

 paler beneath, 5 to 13 cm long, 1.5 to 4.5 cm wide, subequally 

 narrowed to the acute or somewhat acuminate base and to the 

 distinctly acuminate apex, the acumen blunt or shortly apiculate ; 

 lateral nerves slender, spreading, somewhat curved, 10 to 12 on 

 each side of the midrib, the reticulations obscure; petioles 

 slender, about 5 mm long. Cymes terminal and in the upper 

 axils, usually peduncled, dichotomous, few-flowered, slender, 

 ebracteolate, 3 to 4 cm long. Flowers white, their pedicels 

 slender, about 1 cm long. Calyx about 3 mm long, the lobes 

 broadly ovate, obtuse to rounded, 1 to 1.5 mm long; glands small, 

 oblong, 0.5 mm long. Corolla-tube slender, cylindric, about 14 

 mm long, the lobes oblong, 5 to 6 mm long. Stamens inserted at 

 about the upper two-thirds. Follicles in pairs, spreading, some- 

 what curved, oblong-cylindric, 2 to 3 cm long, about 7 mm in 



