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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



VALLA R IS Burman f. 



VALLARIS GLABRA (Linn.) 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 417. 

 Pergularia glabra Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 53. 

 Vallaris pergulana Burm. f. FL Ind. (1768) 51. 

 Emericia pergularia Roem. & Schultes Syst. 4 (1819) 401. 

 Echites hircosa Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 85, nomen nudum, Fl. Ind. 



ed. 2, 2 (1832) 18. 

 Vallaris ovalis Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1857) 427. 

 Flos pergulanus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 51, t. 29, f. 2. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 According to Rumphius the plant was not a native of Amboina, 

 but was introduced from Java. Flos pergulanus Rumph. has 

 been cited under all the synonyms given above, including the 

 original publications of both Pergularia glabra Linn, and 

 Vallaris pergulana Burm. f. It commonly appears in botanical 

 literature as Vallaria pergulana Burm. f., but the oldest name 

 is here adopted. The species is of special interest in that it is 

 the type of the genus Vallaris. 



APOCYNACEAE indet. 



Funis cratium Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 16, t. 12. 



This figure is sufficiently characteristic, so that the species 

 should be readily recognized when once collected in Amboina. 

 It is apparently a scandent species of Apocynaceae and much 

 resembles Urceola. -Funis cratium lltorea Rumph., Herb. Amb. 5: 

 17, may belong in the same group, but the description is too 

 short and imperfect to warrant more than a guess at its position. 

 It may belong in either the Asclepiadaceae or the Apocynaceae. 



ASCLEPIADACEAE 



FINLAYSONIA Wallich 



FINLAYSONIA OBOVATA Wall. PI. As. Rar. 2 (1831) 48, t. 162. 

 01 us crepitans mas Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 480, t. 178, f. 2. 

 Amboina, Paso, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 89, July, September, and 

 October, 1913, climbing over trees in mangrove swamps, locally known as 

 kapok kapok. 



The description and figure agree perfectly with Wallich's 

 species, which is found in mangrove swamps from India to the 

 Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Java, Celebes, and Amboina. 

 No previous reduction of Olus crepitans mas has been suggested. 



CALOTROPIS R. Brown 



CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA (Linn.) Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 2 

 (1811) 78. 



