R E I N W A R D T I A

Published by Herbarium Bogoriense, Bogor, Indonesia
Volume 7, Part 5, pp. 537 - 538 (1969)

THE IDENTITY OF SOME BURMAN SPECIES

A . J . G . H . KOSTERMANS *

N u x M o s c h a t a , e t c .

Burman (Thesaurus zeylanicus, 1737) depicted on tab. 79 NuxlMo-
schata, spuria, sylvestris, Caryophylli arboris, oppositis, Nobis.

The plate depicts a sterile branch with conspicuous, stalked, perulate
leaf buds. The local name is given as Iryaghedhi (cited from Mus. Zeyl.,
p. 58). Linnaeus edumerated the species in Fl. Zeyl., p. 590 under "Barba-
rae Annihilatae".

In the Geneva Herbarium, I found a sheet of the Burman collection,
which might well have served as base for the plate. The perulate buds
are not stalked, but this was perhaps a liberty of the draughtsman. It
represents Machilus glaucescens Wight, var. zeylanica Meissn., which was
considered to be conspecific with Persea (Machilus) macrantha (Nees)
Kosterm. by Hooker.

The vernacular name is fixed in Myristica iryaghedhi Gaertn.

D a w e 1 c o r o n d e

This is the seventh species of what Burman (I.c. 63) considered to
be the Cinnamomum group. There are three sheets in the Burman collection
in Geneva marked Dauwoel Koeroendoe in large, caligraphed letters, one
sheet with a leafy branch with axillar buds bears (in another hand) the
identification: Machilus angustifolia Rumf., p. 60, t. 26, an erroneous
disposition, the other sheets are not further marked, except one, which
bears the identification Laurus involucrata Retz. (which is also wrong).
These three sheets represent Neolitsea cassia (L.) Kosterm. (syn.: Neolit-
sea zeylanica (Nees) Merr.).

There is a fourth sheet of Neolitsea cassia, consisting of a sterile
branch, mounted in a paper flower pot and marked Schinoba.

But there are also two sheets of NeoUtsea cassia, marked Nica-curun-
du (Nieke Coronde of the Thesaurus Zeyl.), the sixth "species" of Burman;
one sheet marked: Nieke coronde vociatur in Acta phys. medic, acad. Caes.

*) Forest Research Institute and Herbarium Bogoriense, Bogor.

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Leop. in App. 5 vol. 1; the other one: Nica-curundu. Laurus camphora
N.B. Arbor camphorif era jaiponica dicta, etc. ab hacr quia in nomine zey-
lanicia ad Cinnamomum pertinent. Laurus eamphora descr. Thunberg.

L a u r u s f o l i i s o v a t i s , etc.

Laurus foliis ovatis venosis coriaceis transverse venosis perennantibus
Burman is represented by one sheet which is Ocotea bullata Meyer of S.
Africa.

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