Hydnophytum ovatum

[Derrick]

There seems to be an error in the type source for this species. Hydnophytum ovatum Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 4, p257, 1869. 

Full title, Annales du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg.

  Volume 4 was actually published in 1884 and there is no page 257 there, or in any of the nearby volumes. Even volume 1 was published in 1876 seven years later than the given date above.  Has anyone a better source.

[jeff]

I have  this source for H.ovatum but also   malesia II  p 143 t 23 fig 8-14

 

jeff

[Bob]

Dear Derrick,

the full title of the original source is Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi, not Annales du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg.

You can find the 4th volume of Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi here:

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/2547#page/1/mode/1up

As promised, you can find the original description of H. ovatum at page 257 there.

Best wishes

Robert

[Derrick]

Thank you Robert.  How stupid of me, I had missed the obvious. Frank has also helped with a translation from Latin. Here is the result.

H. ovatum Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, in Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi. Abbreviated: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavum, Vol. 4, Select Rubiaceae of The East Indian Archipelago, p257/8, (1869). Type description http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/2547#page/1/mode/1up .

Translation from Latin, (New) sp. Trunk globose, branches long, alternating and double-branched, acute on the upper surface
and obtusely tetragonal on the lower surface; stipules short, wide, deciduous; leaves sessile or with a very short
petiole, rounded oval, wide at the base and slightly notched or truncate, very obtuse at the apex or rounded, coriaceous, very smooth, without veins on the lower surface and with a pale bloom; flowers axillary, growing from tubercles.  Very distinct species.  Trunk globose, 2-inch in diameter, inside structure the same as above, covered with a pitted, wrinkled black cortex (perhaps because of exsiccation).  Stems or branches two feet long, or shorter, very ramose and nodose, with blackish wrinkled cortex underneath, dark brown and smooth above, tetragonal with acute angles.  Leaves brown-black on the upper surface, with few veins and ribs but distinct, pale greyish white on the bottom surface with no veins or, only rarely, with 2- 3 ribs on both sides, 1¼- ¾ inch long.  Flowers only incomplete remains are left.

  Habitat/Range. Ternate, Moluccas Islands (Teysmann & De vriese). http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42963387#page/567/mode/1up .

Beccari, Malesia Raccolta 2, p143, (1884). http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44197923#page/257/mode/1up .