APOCYNACEAE 



431 



(1759) 1303, which is certainly correct, at least for the form 

 figured and described as Radix mustelae I alba. Linnaeus has 

 been followed by most authors in this reduction, but among 

 his contemporaries, Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 42, erroneously 

 placed it under Ophiorrhiza mungos Linn. Hasskarl, Neue 

 Schlussel (1866) 188, refers / alba to Ophioxylon serpentinum 

 Linn., to 0. album Gaertn., a synonym, and, with doubt, to 0. 

 majus Hassk., apparently also a synonym; and refers 77 rubra 

 to Ophioxylon trifoliatum Gaertn. Rumphius's description of 

 II rubra agrees with the characters of Gaertner's species, but 

 Ophioxylon trifoliatum Gaertn. is generally considered to be a 

 synonym of 0. serpentinum Linn.= Rauwolfia serpentina (Linn.) 

 Hook. f. 



OCHROSIA Jussieu 



OCHROSIA OPPOSIT! FOLIA (Lam.) K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl Nat. 

 Pflanzenfam. 4 2 (1895) 156. 

 Cerbera oppositifolia Lam. Encycl. 1 (1783) 62 (type!). 

 Calpicarpum ? lamarckii Don Gen. Syst. 4 (1838) 100 (type!). 

 Ochrosia salubris Blume Mus. Bot. 1 (1850) 158. 

 Cerbera salutaris Blume Bijdr. (1826) 1033, non Lour. 

 Bleekeria salubris Hassk. Retzia 1 (1855) 41. 



Lactaria salubris Rafin. Sylva Tellur. (1838) 162 (type!); Hassk. in 



Nederl. Kruidk. Arch. 4 (1859) 9. 

 Lactaria salubris Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 255, t. 84. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 Most of the above synonyms are typified by the Rumphian figure 

 and description; Cerbera oppositifolia Lam., Calpicarpum 

 lamarckii Don, Cerbera salutaris Blume (?), Lactaria salubris 

 Rafin., and Bleekeria salubris Hassk. wholly so. The description 

 of Ochrosia salubris Blume was based primarily on Amboina 

 specimens with the addition of a reference to the Rumphian 

 figure and description. Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 136, 

 cites Lactaria salubris Rumph. as a synonym of Cerbera salutaris 

 ' Lour., but the status of Loureiro's species is very uncertain; 

 from the description it cannot possibly be the same as Scaevola 

 frutescens (Mill.) Krause, to which it has been reduced. 

 Ochrosia elliptica Labill. may be identical with Ochrosa opposit- 

 ifolia (Lam.) K. Schum., but I consider that O. borbonica 

 Gmel. represents an entirely different species. Material from the 

 southern Philippines and from the Marianne Islands, agrees very 

 closely with Rumphius's figure and description, and I think 

 certainly represents Lactaria salubris ~Rumph. = Ochrosia opposit- 

 ifolia (Lam.) K. Schum.* 



* See Valeton in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 12 (1895) 226. 



