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LYCOPERSICUM Hill 



LYCOPERSICUM ESCULENTUM Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768) no. 2. 

 Solarium lycopersicum Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 185. 

 Pomum amoris Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 416, t. f. 1. 



The common tomato, cultivated and wild in most parts of the 

 Malayan region, is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 The form figured is one of the cultivated types with medium- 

 sized fruits; the form indicated by Rumphius as II rotundum is 

 apparently the small-fruited wild form with fruits 1 to 2 cm in 

 diameter ; that is, the common wild form of the plant that occurs 

 in the Malayan region. The reduction of Pomum amoris to 

 Solarium lycopersicum Linn, was first made by Linnaeus, in 

 Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 24, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 132, 

 Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 265, which, as Lycopersicum esculentum 

 Mill., is the correct disposition of it. 



DATURA Linnaeus 



DATURA FASTUOSA Linn. Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 932. 



Stramonia indica III dutra rubra Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 243, t. 87, 

 f. 2. 



No representative of the genus Datura occurs in our Amboina 

 collections, but the form figured and described by Rumphius is 

 certainly Datura fastuosa Linn. The figure presents a form 

 occasionally found in cultivation in the Malayan region with a 

 double corolla. Both forms figured by Rumphius on plate 87 

 were erroneously reduced by Linnaeus to Datura metel Linn., 

 in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 21, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 130, 

 Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 932, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 256, in which he 

 was followed by numerous other authors. • Other names involved 

 are Datura hummatu Bernh. and D. fastuosa var. rubra Dunal. 

 Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 53, first made the correct reduction to 

 Datura fastuosa Linn. 



DATURA FASTUOSA Linn. var. ALBA (Nees) C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. 



Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 (1883) 243. 

 Datura alba Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. 17 (1834) 73. 

 Datura nigra Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. (1844) 142 (type!). 

 Stramonia indica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 242, t. 87, f. 1 (incl. Dutra 



alba et Dutra nigra). 



This was originally reduced with Stramonia indica III to 

 Datura metel Linn, by Linnaeus, as noted above. It is, however, 

 the common, white-flowered form described by Nees as Datura 

 alba, which is apparently merely a variant of the common Datura 



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