THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
VOL. XII SEPTEMBER, 1917 No. 5 
THE AMBOINA ORCHIDACEAE COLLECTED BY C. B. ROBINSON 
By J. J. Smith ^ 
{Buitenzorg, Java) 
The Robinson collection of Orchidaceae contained forty-one 
numbers, representing thirty-nine species ; one species was sterile 
and could not be identified. Eleven species are new to Amboina : 
Platanthera Robinsonii J. J. Sm. Dendrohium acuminatissimum Lindl. 
Habenaria ambomensis J. J. Sm. Dendrobium Robinsonii J. J. Sm. 
Didymoplexis minor J. J. Sm. var. Phreatia potamophila Schltr. (?) 
amboinensis J. J. Sm. Phalaenopsis Robinsonii J. J. Sm. 
Hetaeria oblongifolia Bl. Palaenopsis Hebe Reichb. f. (var.). 
Goodyera rubicunda Lindl. var. am- Taeniophyllum minutiflorum J. J. 
boinensis J. J. Sm. Sm. 
Among these, five species and two varieties are here described 
for the first time. 
Fifteen species have been identified with species described by 
Rumphius, of which all but one, Zeuxine amboinensis J. J. Sm., 
have already been enumerated in “Die Orchideen von Ambon. 
' The Robinson collection of Amboina Orchidaceae was sent to Leiden, 
where the present paper was prepared by Doctor Smith. On his return to 
Buitenzorg, Doctor Smith considered it inadvisable to take the specimens 
or his manuscript with him, on account of the abnormal conditions brought 
about by the war. His report on the Rumphian Orchidaceae [Merrill, An 
•Interpretation of Rumphius’s Herbarium Amboinense (1917) 168-179] was 
prepared at Buitenzorg de novo, without access to^ Robinson’s specimens. 
A copy of his manuscript sent from Leiden was lost in transit. A second 
copy, forwarded later, was received at Buitenzorg about the middle of June, 
1917, and in Manila July 11, 1917. This copy was received when my 
Interpretation of Rumphius’s Herbarium Amboinense was in page proof, 
but the specimens representing Rumphian species were cited in the Addenda, 
pages 549, 550. [E. D. M.] 
’Smith, J. J., Die Orchideen von Ambon (1905) 1-125. 
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