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diameter, slightly 2-keeled, prominently rostrate-acuminate, the 

 acumen slender, acute, 3-angled. Seeds 4 to 6. 



Previously the status of Capsicum silvestre Rumph. had not 

 been definitely determined, although Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 

 (1790) 117, cites it under Tahernaemontana bufalina Lour. 

 Loureiro's species, however, was described from Cochin-China 

 material and is manifestly not the form described and figured 

 by Rumphius. Some authors, following Loureiro's suggestion, 

 have thought that the drawing of the fruits represented another 

 species, T. bovina Lour., but this is certainly not the case. I 

 have described the form as a new species with some hesitation, 

 for I have not been able definitely to determine the status of 

 Tahernaemontana corymbosa Roxb. This species is described in 

 Roxburgh's Flora Indica, ed. 2, 2 (1832) 25, from specimens 

 originating in the Moluccas. The description is entirely in- 

 adequate, as follows: 



T. corymbosa R. Leaves petioled, oblong. Corymbs terminal, ample, 

 decompound, all the primary divisions dichotomous. Anthers enclosed. 

 A native of the Moluccas. 



As interpreted by other authors, however, A. de Candolle, 

 Hooker f., and King and Gamble, Tahernaemontana corymbosa 

 Roxb. has little to do with the Amboina form above described 

 and is typified by specimens collected in Penang, as described by 

 Wallich, Bot. Reg. sub t. 1273. It seems probable that two 

 entirely different plants are involved in Tahernaemontana 

 corymbosa Roxb., and that the one described by Roxburgh him- 

 self, Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 25, may be the same as Tahernae- 

 montana capsicoides Merr. In examining Rumphius's figure of 

 Capsicum silvestre it should be borne in mind that the fruits 

 are drawn on a scale very much larger than that of the leaves. 



TABERNAEMONTANA DIVARICATA (Linn.) R. Br. ex Roem. & Schultes 

 Syst. 4 (1819) 427. 



Nerium divaricatum Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 209. 

 Nyctanthes acuminata Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 5. 

 Nerium coronarium Jacq. Coll. 1 (1786) 138. 



Tahernaemontana coronaria Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. (1809) 275. 

 Flos manilhanus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 87, t. 39. 



This widely cultivated shrub is not represented in our Am- 

 boina collections. The form figured is the one with double 

 flowers and was introduced into Amboina during Rumphius's 

 time. It is cited by various authors under one or another of 

 the synonyms listed above : by Burman f . in the original descrip- 

 tion of Nyctanthes acuminata; by Lamarck under Nerium coro- 



