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PASSIFLORACEAE 
PASSI FLORA Linnaeus 
PASSI FLORA MOLUCCANA Blume Bijdr. (1826) 938, Rumphia 1 (1835) 
169, t. 15. 
Amboina Mahija, Rel. Robins. 1659, October 3, 1913, climbing over trees 
at an altitude of about 275 meters; Gelala, Rel. Robins. 1661, August 25, 
1913, in thickets, altitude about 5 meters. 
A species originally described from specimens collected in Ternate, and 
known from a few localities in the Moluccas. 
PASSIFLORA FOETIDA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 959. 
Amboina, waste places on the beach near Castle Victoria, Rel. Robins. 
1660, November 13, 1913, locally known as pepinyo utan babulu. 
A native of tropical America, now introduced and naturalized in many 
other tropical countries. 
BEGONIACEAE 
BEGONIA Linnaeus 
BEGONIA cf. B. aptera Blume Enum. PI. Jav. (1827) 97. 
Amboina, Kati-kati, Rel. Robins. 1 778, October 7, 1913, on limestone rocks 
at an altitude of about 70 meters. 
A coarse erect plant attaining a height of nearly 1 m, the stout stems 
about 1 cm in diameter when dry. It apparently belongs in the same 
group with the Philippine Begonia pseudolateralis Warb., but the material 
is inadequate to warrant a more definite determination of it, there being 
no fruits on the specimens. 
BEGONIA sp. 
Amboina, Koesoekoesoe sereh and Soja, Rel. Robins. 2518, August, 1913, 
terrestrial, rarely on rocks, altitude 200 to 400 meters. 
BEGONIA sp. 
Amboina, cultivated in the town of Amboina, Rel Robins. 1779, September 
25, 1913, a single imperfect specimen inadequate for further identification. 
THYMELAEACEAE 
PHALERIA Jack 
PHALERI A A M BOI N ENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, eirciter 4 m altus; foliis firme chartaceis vel 
subcoriaceis, ellipticis ad late oblongo-ellipticis, petiolatis, usque 
ad 23 cm longis, obtusis vel brevissime lateque acuminatis, basi 
acutis, nervis primariis utrinque 12 ad 15 ; inflorescentiis termi- 
nalibus, pedunculatis, capitatis, pedunculis eirciter 1 cm longis, 
f asciculatis ; floribus numerosis, eirciter 2.5 cm longis, extus 
glabris, laciniis intus puberulis. 
A shrub about 4 m high, glabrous except portions of the in- 
florescence. Branches terete, stout, smooth, reddish-brown, the 
