RUBIACEAE 



485 



PL Rumph. Amb. 168, August, 1913, on wooded hillsides and in ravines, 

 altitude 25 to 250 meters. 



The specimens agree entirely with Rumphius's description of 

 Folium principissae latifolium and, except for the shape of the 

 leaves, with the illustration of Folium principissae. The Rumph- 

 ian plant manifestly has been interpreted by most authors 

 largely by the figure, and Hasskarl has referred the figure to 

 Folium principissae angustifolium, citing under this name the 

 various species to which it has been reduced. Linnaeus placed 

 it under Mussaenda frondosa Linn., a species typified by Ceylon 

 specimens, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 17, Amoen. Acad. 4 

 (1759) 127, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 931, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 251, 

 in which he was followed by Burman f., Loureiro, Willdenow, 

 Persoon, Roemer and Schultes, and Pritzel. Lamarck, followed 

 by Poiret, placed it under Gardenia frondosa Lam., a synonym 

 of the Linnean species. Vahl, Symb. 3 (1794) 38, in dis- 

 tinguishing Mussaenda glabra Vahl from M. frondosa Linn, 

 states: "Rumph. Folium Principissae hue potius pertinere vi- 

 detur," in which disposition of it he was followed by Persoon, 

 Roemer and Schultes, de Candolle, Don, Henschel, Wight and 

 Arnott, and Dietrich; while Miquel, FL Ind. Bat. 2 (1857) 212, 

 placed it under Mussaenda frondosa Linn. var. glabra (Vahl) 

 Miq. Miquel, FL Ind. Bat. 2 (1759) 211, suggested that Folium 

 principissae latifolium Rumph. was the same as Mussaenda 

 reinwardtiana Miq. and in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 4 (1868-69) 

 187 that Folium principissae "maius" (that is, latifolium) , might 

 be Mussaenda dasyphylla Miq. Dr. Valeton states that the spe- 

 cimen cited above agrees absolutely with the description of 

 Mussaenda dasyphylla Miq., as well as with specimens collected 

 by Teysmann and by Boerlage, and that, although he has not 

 seen the type specimen of Mussaenda reinwardtiana Miq., he can 

 detect no real differences between the two descriptions. 



GARDENIA Linnaeus 

 GARDENIA AUGUSTA (Linn.) comb. nov. 



Varneria augusta Linn. Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 136 (type!). 

 Gardenia jasminoides Ellis in Philos. Trans. 51 2 (1761) 935. 

 Gardenia florida Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 305. 

 Catsjopiri Rumph. Herb. Amb. 7: 26, t. lb, f. 2. 



This commonly cultivated shrub is not represented in our 

 Amboina collections. The form figured by Rumphius is the one 

 with double flowers and has been very generally cited as a syn- 

 onym of Gardenia florida Linn, since it was thus reduced by 

 Linnaeus in the original description of the species. However, 



