490 



RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



ately presents no fruits. The fruit characters are the ones 

 depended upon by modern botanists for distinguishing the two 

 species here discussed. Whatever else it may prove to be, it is 

 certainly the form described by Miquel as Paederia amboinensis. 



MORI N DA Linnaeus 



MORI N DA CITRIFOLIA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 176. 



Bancudus latifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 158, t. 99. 

 Amboina, Amahoesoe, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 151, August 30, 1913, 

 along the seashore, locally known as binkudong. 



Bancudus latifolia Rumph. was first reduced to Morinda citri- 

 folia Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 13, Amoen. Acad. 

 4 (1759) 124, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 930, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 250, 

 which disposition of it is manifestly correct and has been accepted 

 by all authors. Morinda latifolia Rumph. is certainly the same 

 as Bancudus latifolia Rumph. and accordingly is placed here, 

 following Miquel and Hasskarl. 



MORINDA BRACTEATA Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 15, nomen nudum, 

 PI. Ind. 2 (1824) 198. 

 Bancudus angustifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 157, t. 98. 

 Amboina, Hatiwe, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 155, September 14, 1913, 

 in formerly cultivated lands, altitude about 10 meters. 



Linnaeus erroneously reduced Bancudus angustifolia Rumph. 

 to Morinda umbellata Linn., Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 250, in which 

 he was followed by Burman f., Loureiro, Lamarck, Roemer and 

 Schultes, and Pritzel. Willdenow, Sp. PL 1 (1798) 992, thought 

 that it might be a variety of Morinda citrifolia Linn.; while 

 Roemer and Schultes, Syst. 5 (1819) 215, placed it with doubt 

 under Morinda angustifolia Roth. Roxburgh cites it in the 

 original description of Morinda bracteata Roxb., with the state- 

 ment that it "has the process of the calyx of my plant, but I 

 cannot say they agree in other respects." It seems to be the 

 same as Morinda bracteata Roxb. var. celebica Miq.* 



CUCURBITACEAE 



MELOTHRIA Linnaeus 



MELOTHRIA INDICA Lour. PI. Cochinch. (1790) 35. 



Cucumis murinus viridis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 463, t. 171, f. 2. 

 Amboina, Robinson, PI. Rumph. Amb. S9U, July 22, 1913, along the banks 

 of the river, locally known as daun pepinyu tikus. 



This reduction was made by Loureiro in the original descrip- 



* See Valeton Ic. Bogor. 3 (1908) t. 269. 



