DOUBTFUL SPECIES 



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Arbor facum minor Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 79, t. 51. 



The description is very short, and the figure presents merely 

 a leafy branch. Teysmann, quoted by Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel 

 (1866) 53, placed it in the Sapotaceae; but there is no warrant 

 for this reduction. 



Cauda felis saxatilis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 84. 



Undeterminable from the description alone. The species has 

 nothing to do with the other forms described in this chapter, 

 which pertain to the genus Acalypha. 

 Kowackil Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 91. 



The description is very brief and applies chiefly to the vege- 

 tative characters of the plant. It is compared with Pulasarius 

 arbor, described in the same chapter, which is Lepiniopsis ter- 

 natensis Valet. Its status is quite undeterminable. 



Arbor palorum nigra Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 99, t. 66. 



Unrecognizable, yet the figure represents a sufficiently charac- 

 teristic plant, which should be readily determinable when once 

 collected in Amboina. 



Vertifolia alba Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 100. 



Under Vertifolia Rumphius described two forms, V. alba and 

 V. rubra, and figured one (t. 67), but did not indicate to which 

 of the two the figure pertained. Our Amboina material shows 

 conclusively that the figure belongs with Vertifolia rubra, which 

 is Perrottetia moluccana (Blume) Loesen.; see p. 335. Hass- 

 karl, apparently judging chiefly from the figure, thought 

 that the species might belong in the Euphorbiaceae, while 

 Teysmann, quoted by Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 55, de- 

 finitely placed it in Ehretia, where it manifestly does not belong. 

 Vertifolia alba, as described, is entirely different from V. rubra, 

 and its status is undeterminable from any data at present 

 available. 



Olus catappanicum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 182. 



The status of this form is unrecognizable from the data given 

 by Rumphius. The form very briefly described in the same 

 chapter as Olus catappanicum aliud may be a Barringtonia. 



Tanarius major II Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 192. 



Undeterminable. The other form described in this chapter, 

 and of which a figure is given, is Schizomeria serrata Hochr. 



Daun parawas Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 203. 



This was from Batavia, Java. It is probably some rutaceous 

 plant, as suggested by Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 67, 

 and is possibly a species of Clausena. 



