DOUBTFUL SPECIES 



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Pseudo-Sandalum buroense Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 55. 



The description is sufficiently long and detailed, but I am 

 unable to recognize the family to which the plant belongs. It 

 was from Buru, there known as roweyl, lowelle, rawelle, and 

 bahamalosey. An exploration of Buru will doubtless yield 

 material by which its status can be determined. The other 

 plant described in this chapter, Pseudo-Sandalum amboinense, 

 is Osmoxylon umbelliferum (Lam.) Merr. 



Jamtsja Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 17. 



The description is of the wood only. No data are given by 

 which it can be identified. 



Metrosideros molucca femina Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 25, t. 12. 



I do not recognize the group to which this species belongs, 

 although the description is good, as is also the figure. It is 

 not represented in our Amboina collections. It has nothing to 

 do with the two other forms described in this chapter, of which 

 Metrosideros molucca mas is Homalium foetidum Benth., and 

 Metrosideros molucca fungosa is apparently Harpullia arborea 

 Radlk. 



Morfalla Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 46. 



A tree from the Sula Islands and Ceram, briefly described. 

 From the digitate leaves Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 49, 

 suggested that it might belong in the Araliaceae. The wood 

 characters given by Rumphius make this reduction an impos- 

 sible one. The flowers and fruits were unknown to Rumphius. 



Corius mas Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 48, t. 27. 



Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 49, quotes Teysmann's opinion 

 that this may be a species of Tanghinia=Cerbera. This sug- 

 gested reduction is certainly incorrect. The description is ample, 

 and the figure presents a characteristic plant that should be 

 easily recognized when once collected in Amboina. The native 

 names cited are ekora, ekore, caju kore, aykole, and kole. It 

 probably belongs in the Apocynaceae. 



Corius femina Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 48. 



This description, forming a part of the same chapter as 

 Corius mas, applies to a quite different form. No suggestion 

 has been made as to its status, and I do not recognize the group 

 to which it belongs. 



Carbonaria mas Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 52, t. 29. 



A species of doubtful status. Thouars, in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 

 3 (1813) 727, placed it under Monimia, where is certainly does 



