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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



Rumph. is manifestly one of the cultivated forms with long 

 fruits. Amara sylvestris may be the wild form with greatly 

 reduced fruits, but there are some points in Rumphius's descrip- 

 tion that militate against this reduction. The figure of the 

 latter is very poor, presenting a habit sketch only, without 

 flowers or fruits. 



MOMORDICA COC'HINCHINENSIS (Lour.) Spreng. Syst. 3 (1826) 14. 



Muricia cochinchinensis Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 596. 

 Poppya rotunda Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 414, t. 153. 



Amboina, Wae, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 390, November 29, 1913, climb- 

 ing on trees along small streams near sea level, the fruit orange-red, 

 locally known as pepinyu tikus. 



Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. I 1 (1856) 676, has placed this under 

 Trichosanthes cucumerina Linn.; but the description, especially 

 of the characteristic bracts and of the flower, is manifestly ap- 

 plicable to Momordica, not to Trichosanthes. Poppya oblonga 

 Rumph., 1. c. 414, is unquestionably also a species of Momordica, 

 from the description; although Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 

 140, suggests that it is Involucaria palmata Roem.=Trichosan- 

 thes bracteata Voigt. 



GOODENIACEAE 



SCAEVOLA Linnaeus 



SCAEVOLA FRUTESCENS (Mill.) Krause in Engl. Pflanzenreich 54 (1912) 

 125. 



Lobelia frutescens Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768) no. 1. 

 Lobelia taccada Gaertn. Fruct. 1 (1788) 119, t. 25. 

 Scaevola koenigii Vahl Symb. Bot. 3 (1794) 36. 

 Buglossum litoreum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 116, t. 5^. 



Amboina, Amahoesoe, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 21U, September 18, 

 1913, on rocks along the seashore, locally known as bapacheda. 



Buglossum litoreum Rumph. was first reduced by Linnaeus 

 to Lobelia plumieri Linn. ^Scaevola plumieri Vahl, in Stickman 

 Herb. Amb. (1754) 17, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 127, Syst. ed. 

 10 (1759) 1237, which is a species distinct from Scaevola fru- 

 tescens Krause, not the same as Buglossum litoreum Rumph. 

 Murray, Syst. Veg. (1774) 178, referred it to Scaevola lobelia 

 Murr., a synonym of S. plumieri Vahl. Other authors have re- 

 duced it as follows : Poiret to Lobelia taccada Gaertn. : Vahl to 

 Scaevola koenigii Vahl; Roxburgh to Scaevola taccada Roxb. ; 

 and de Candolle to Scaevola velutina Presl ; all are synonyms of 

 Scaevola frutescens (Mill.) Krause. 



