452 RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



VITEX Linnaeus 



VITEX MOLUCCANA Blume Bijdr. (1826) 813. 

 Tittius Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 38, t. 20. 

 Amboina, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 296, August 23, November 26 and 

 29, 1913, in light woods at Liang, Gelala, and Wae, altitude 15 to 20 meters, 

 locally known as titti and daun titti. 



This very characteristic species is known only from Amboina 

 and Banda, the specimens cited above agreeing perfectly with 

 Rumphius's figure and description and with a series of speci- 

 mens collected in Amboina by B otter, Heyne, Teysmann 5031, 

 and Binnendyck and with Teysmann 5158 from Banda. .Poiret, 

 in Lamarck Encycl. 5 (1804) 163, suggested that t. 20 might 

 be Clerodendron infortunatum Linn., but erroneously cites the 

 description of Tittius litorea. It has nothing in common with 

 that species. The plate is Vitex moluccana, but the description 

 cited is a Clerodendron. Blume cites the Rumphian plant in the 

 original description of his Vitex moluccana, in which he has been 

 followed by later authors. It seems very probable that the two 

 forms' indicated by Rumphius as Tittius alba and Tittius rubra 

 are merely slight variants of the same species. 



VITEX COFASSUS Reinw. ex Blume Bijdr. (1826) 813. 



Cof assus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3 : 28, t. 1J>B. 



Amboina, Liang, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 302, November 29, 1913, in 

 open fields at an altitude of about 15 meters, locally known as gofassa. 



This is unquestionably Cof assus of Rumphius for the most part. 

 The description includes at least two forms, and the figure pre- 

 sents a species of Vitex with simple and trifoliolate leaves on 

 the same plant. Cof assus mas, C. alba, and C. femina should 

 probably all be referred here, although C. mas, described as 

 having simple and trifoliolate leaves may be due to a mixture 

 of material, and as Teysmann suggests, in Hasskarl Neue 

 Schlussel (1866) 48, the trifoliolate-leaved form may be Vitex 

 timoriensis Walp.=y. littoralis Dcne.=F. parviflora Juss. 

 Cofassus is cited by Reinwardt in the original description of 

 Vitex cofassus. The material cited above agrees with a series 

 of specimens from Amboina, from Celebes (Heyne), and with 

 material from New Guinea collected by Hollrung and by 

 Weinland. It is strongly suspected that Vitex monophylla K. 

 Sch., Fl. Kaiser Wilhelmsl. (1889) 121, of New Guinea, will 

 prove to be identical with Vitex cofassus Reinw. 



