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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1916 
EURYA NITIDA Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. (1839-42) 115, t. 17, f. 1-2. 
Amboina, Hitoe messen, Rel. Robins. 1803, October 18, 1913, in forests, 
altitude about 475 meters. 
The specimen agrees quite closely with the description and with numerous 
specimens of what is supposed to be Eurya nitida Korth. from the Malay 
Peninsula and Java, except that the sepals are slightly apiculate. A critical 
revision of the genus may show that the specimen cited above is really 
distinct. It has been sunk in Eurya japonica Thunb. by some botanists, 
and by Dyer, in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 1 (1874) 284, it is treated as Eurya 
japonica Thunb. var. nitida (Korth.) Dyer. 
GUTTIFERAE 
GARCINIA Linnaeus 
GARCINIA sp. 
Amboina, Hitoe lama, Rel. Robins. 1781, November 6, 1913, in forests, 
altitude about 75 meters, locally known as mangostan utan. 
The specimen has young flowers and is scarcely in condition for accurate 
identification. It very strongly resembles Garcinia dulcis Kurz, but the 
branchets and branches are terete, not at all angled, while the leaves 
have numerous scattered glands on the lower surface distinctly visible 
to the naked eye. Perhaps an undescribed species. 
VIOLACEAE 
RINOREA Aublet 
RINOREA AMBOINENSIS sp. nov. § Prothesia. 
Frutex circiter 1.5 m altus, ramulis junioribus inflorescen- 
tiisque leviter adpresse pubescentibus exceptis glaber; foliis 
chartaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, integris, usque ad 33 
cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 16, prominentibus, apice 
longissime acuminatis, basi leviter inaequilateralibus, acutis ad 
subrotundatis et leviter decurrento-acuminatis ; cymis axillari- 
bus, circiter 2 cm longis, paucifloris, sepalis oblongo-ovatis, cir- 
citer 3.5 mm longis, acutis; staminibus inclusis, liberis, appen- 
dicis late ovatis; ovario hirsuto. 
A shrub about 1.5 m high, glabrous except the slightly pu- 
bescent branchlets and the appressed-pubescent inflorescences. 
Branches terete, brownish, glabrous, the branchlets minutely 
puberulent. Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, entire, charta- 
ceous, shining, pale-olivaceous when dry, up to 33 cm long and 
12 cm wide, gradually narrowed above to the long-acuminate 
apex, the acumen stout, acute or apiculate, base slightly inequi- 
lateral, acute to somewhat rounded and more or less decurrent- 
acuminate; lateral nerves about 16 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, the reticulations subparallel, distinct; petioles 1.5 
to 2 cm long. Cymes axillary, appressed-pubescent, about 2 
