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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



maintained the Malayan-Polynesian form specifically distinct 

 from the typical Indian Clerodendron inerme (Linn.) Gaertn. 

 If this distinction be maintained, the Malayan-Polynesian form 

 must be called Clerodendron commersonii (Poir.) Spreng., which 

 is the oldest valid name for it. Jasminum litoreum was first 

 reduced by Linnaeus to Volkameria inermis Linn., in Stickman 

 Herb. Amb. (1754) 19, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 129, Syst. ed. 10 

 (1759) 1122, and all succeeding authors have followed Linnaeus, 

 citing the Rumphian figure under either Volkameria inermis 

 Linn, or Clerodendron inerme Gaertn. 



CLERODENDRON RUMPHIANUM DeVriese & Teysm. in Flora 43 (1860) 

 622, ex Hassk.; DeVriese in Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 3 (1867) 252. 

 Petasites amboinensis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 107, t. 48. 



Nothing resembling this plant occurs in our Amboina collec- 

 tions. There can be no doubt whatever that the Rumphian 

 Petasites amboinensis represents the same species as the plant 

 described by DeVriese, who reduces the Rumphian name as 

 a synonym. The type material of Clerodendron rumphianum 

 DeVr., as described in Miquel's Annales, was from Amboina and 

 Ceram. 



AVICENNIA Linnaeus 



AVICENNIA OFFICINALIS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 110. 



Mangium album Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 115, t. 76. 

 Amboina, Paso, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. SOI, October 29, 1913, in 

 mangrove swamps. 



Mangium album, as figured, is certainly the typical form of 

 Avicennia officinalis Linn., which is found along the seashore 

 throughout the tropics of the Old World. Early authors gen- 

 erally made no attempt to reduce this species; Linnaeus, in 

 Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 13, merely indicating that it per- 

 tained to the genus Rhizophora. Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel 

 (1866) 57, considers that the description included both Avicen- 

 nia officinalis Linn, and the allied A. alba Blume. The species 

 is enormously variable in size, often flowering when less than 

 one meter high, but it is normally a tree, frequently reaching a 

 large size. 



LABIATAE 



ROSMARINUS Linnaeus 



ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 23. 



Rosmarinus verus sinensis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 26. 



This is merely mentioned by Rumphius, under the description 

 of Crategonum amboinicum Rumph., but is unquestionably the 



