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Nauclea longiflora Poir. was based wholly on Funis uncatus 

 latifolius Rumph. and has been reduced to Uncaria acida Roxb., 

 where it certainly does not belong. Under no. 153, cited above, 

 two species are involved, one of which is apparently a form of 

 Uncaria pteropoda Miq. Unfortunately the specimens are sterile. 

 Dr. Valeton states that the Amboina specimen closely resembles 

 those of Malacca and the Philippines in which the petioles are 

 mostly destitute of the wings that are characteristic of the 

 typical form of Uncaria pteropoda Miq., but that in the form 

 and nervation of the leaves they are almost identical with those 

 of the typical Sumatran and Javan form with large wings. 



ADINA Salisbury 



ADINA FA Gl FOLIA (Teysm. & Binn.) Valeton in herb. comb. nov. 



Nauclea fagifolia Teysm. & Binn. Cat. Hort. Bogor. (1866) 117, nomen 



nudum; Havil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 33 (1897) 63. 

 Neonauclea fagifolia Merr. in Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 5 (1915) 539. 

 Ulassium mas Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 42, t. 23. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections, 

 yet unquestionably Ulassium mas is identical with Nauclea fagi- 

 folia Teysm. & Binn., a species of which the flowers and fruits 

 have not as yet been described. Dr. Valeton has studied the 

 species and finds it to be an Adina; it will be figured and de- 

 scribed by him in a forthcoming number of Icones Bogoriensis. 

 Teysmann, quoted by Hasskarl, referred the Rumphian 

 species to Nauclea fagifolia Teysm. and Binn.; but Loureiro, 

 Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 633, was entirely wrong in reducing it to 

 Echinus trisulcus Lour., with which it has nothing in common. 

 The species is cultivated in the botanic garden at Buitenzorg, 

 Java, and is known from Celebes and Buru. 



The two forms described in the same chapter with Ulassium 

 mas, TJ. femina and U. lapideum, are too inadequately treated to 

 warrant even a surmise as to their identity. One or both may 

 be referable to Adina fagifolia Val., or they may represent 

 entirely different species. 



NEONAUCLEA Merrill 



(Nauclea auct., non Linnaeus) 



NEONAUCLEA MOLUCCANA (Miq.) Merr. in Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 5 

 (1915) 541. 



Nauclea moluccana Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lug'd.-Bat. 4 (1868-69) 183. 

 Laharus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 44, t. 24. 



Amboina, Amahoesoe, Liang, and Koesoekoesoe sereh, Robinson PI. 

 Rumph. Amb. 148, 161, 162, August and November, 1913, hillsides and light 

 woods at low altitudes, locally known as laharong and nessat karang. 



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