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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



not belong. Hasskarl thought that it belonged in Elaeocarpus, 

 while Teysmann, quoted by Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 

 50, placed it in Aglaia. If an Aglaia, which is very improbable, 

 it belongs in the group of very few species with simple leaves. 

 It cannot possibly be an Elaeocarpus. The figure represents a 

 characteristic species, and it should be readily recognized when 

 once collected in Amboina. 



Carbonaria femina Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 53. 



Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 50, has suggested that this 

 may be a species of Elaeocarpus. There is nothing in the de- 

 scription to indicate that this reduction is the correct disposition 

 of it. 



Carbonaria altera Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 54. 



Poiret, in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 3 (1813) 727, thought that this 

 might be some species of Monimia; it possibly belongs in the 

 Monimiaceae. The native names cited are hanet and ulit 

 halewan. The form described in the same chapter as angusti- 

 folia may belong in the same group as Carbonaria altera, what- 

 ever this may prove to be. 



Carbonaria altera litorea Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 55. 



Undeterminable from any data given by Rumphius. Possibly 

 in the same group as Carbonaria altera Rumph. 



Mangium silvestre Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 57, t. 31. 



This has been considered by several authors as possibly re- 

 presenting a species of Garcinia; while Henschel, Vita Rumph. 

 (1833) 154, placed it, with doubt, under Mangifera laxiflora 

 Desr., where it certainly does not belong. The figure looks 

 suspiciously like Buchanania arborea Blume, and the species 

 may ultimately prove to be a Buchanania. The description of 

 the fruits, however, does not at all apply to Buchanania, although 

 the figure of them conforms well to those of this genus. It is 

 possible that the description is a mixture of two different species. 

 Buchanania amboinensis Miq., represented by Rel. Robins. 1776, 

 1777, should be compared with this. 



Lignum sal is minus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 61. 



Undeterminable from any data given by Rumphius. The 

 description includes data regarding the habit of the plant, its 

 leaves, and its wood, with no data regarding the flowers or the 

 fruits. The native names cited are aytassi, aytassi laun maun, 

 and aytassi kitsjil. 



