XI, C, 6 
Merrill: Reliquiae Robinsonianae 
301 
about the lower one-fifth, oblong-elliptic, obtuse or rounded, 
about 1.5 mm long, not punctate. Anthers oblong, about 0.8 
mm long, inserted near the base of the corolla. Ovary ovoid, 
small, the style rather stout; ovules few. Fruit immature, 
ovoid, 2 mm long. 
Amboina, Hitoe messen, Rel. Robins. 1880 (type), November 1, 1913, 
climbing in trees at an altitude of about 200 meters. Apparently referable 
here is Rel. Robins. 1881, from the same locality, November 5, 1913, the 
leaves broadly elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 8 to 10 cm long and 5 to 8 cm 
wide. 
A very characteristic species, readily recognizable by its elliptic, entire, 
obtuse to broadly rounded leaves, its axillary many flowered panicles and 
sessile flowers. Following Mez’s key it falls near Maesa coriacea (A. DC.) 
Mez, but it is totally different from that species, and perhaps should be 
placed near Maesa sarasenii Mez. The ovules are apparently few in num- 
ber, so that the species is somewhat anomalous in the section Eumaesa. 
MAESA RUBIGINOSA Blume ex Scheff. Comm. Myrsin. Archip. Ind. (1867) 
26. 
Amboina, Amahoesoe, Rel. Robins. 1876 , September 16, 1913, hanging 
over cliffs at an altitude of 40 meters. 
Originally described from specimens cultivated in the botanic garden 
at Buitenzorg, Java, originating in Amboina. The species is well charac- 
terized by its few-flowered inflorescences, these sometimes reduced to 
few-flowered fascicles or the uppermost flowers sometimes solitary. 
ARDISIA Swartz 
ARD1SIA AM BOI N ENSIS Scheff. Comm. Myrsin. Archip. Ind. (1867) 75. 
Amboina, Hitoe messen and Hitoe lama, Rel. Robins. 1883, 188U, October 
11 and 13, 1913, in forests, altitude 125 to 200 meters. 
Ardisia amboinensis Scheff. is known only from Amboina. Mez “ has 
placed it in the section Stylardisia, but judging from our material, in full 
anthesis, I would place it in the section Acr ardisia, as the styles are shorter 
than the petals in bud ; Mez does not describe the flowers, having apparently 
seen only a fruiting specimen. The specimens cited above agree very 
closely with his description and I am confident that they represent Scheffer’s 
species. 
ARDISIA RUMPHII sp. nov. § Pimelandra. 
Arbor circiter 5 m alta ramulis junioribus inflorescentiisque 
ferrugineo-pubescentibus exceptis glabra; foliis chartaceis, ob- 
longis, usque ad 37 cm longis, obscure obtuse acuminatis, basi 
leviter abrupteque decurrento-acuminatis, integris, nitidis, sub- 
tus puncticulatis, nervis primariis utrinque circiter 16, subtus 
prominentibus, curvatis, obscure anastomosantibus ; inflorescen- 
tiis axillaribus, corymboso-paniculatis, submultifloris, dense 
10 Engl. Pflanzenreich 9 (1902) 110. 
