REINWARDTIA

Vol. 10, Part 4, pp. 473 (1988)

A SUPERFLUOUS WRONG NAME FOR THE "LANGSAT"
(LANSIUM AQAEUM MIQ.)

A.J.G.H. KOSTERMANS

Herbarium Bogoriense, Bogor, Indonesia

In the Indian Forester 100(2): 202. Mar. 1974, K.A. Salm and S.R.R.
Bennet published an automatic transfer (without having seen the type mate-
rial) of Melia parasitica Osbeck (Dagbock Ostind. Resa 278.1751; ed. german.
1765; ed. angl. 1771) to Lansium parasiticum (Osb.) Salm & Bennet, appar-
ently influenced by Merril's suggestion (in J. Arnold Arb. 3:528.1916 and
33: 229.1952), who referred it to Lansium domesticum.

The author's missed my note {in Reinwardtia 7(3): 247.1966) where I,
having rediscovered Osbeck's type material in Stockholm, have referred it to
Dysoxylum as D. parasiticum (Osb.) Kosterm. The species is conspecific with
Dysoxylum caulostachyum Miq., a tree common in the northern coastal area
of W. Java, where Osbeck collected the flowers during his visit to Batavia
(now Jakarta).

The variety aquaeum (warbled to Lansium parasitica var. aeqem) can
be discarded. There are moreover mistakes in the quotations of descriptions.

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