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The ohia lehua trees of Hawaii : a revision of the Hawaiian species of the genus Metrosideros Banks, with special reference to the varieties and forms of Metrosideros collina (Forster) A. Gray subspecies polymorpha (Gaud) Rock

Author:
Rock, Joseph Francis Charles
Title:
The ohia lehua trees of Hawaii : a revision of the Hawaiian species of the genus Metrosideros Banks, with special reference to the varieties and forms of Metrosideros collina (Forster) A. Gray subspecies polymorpha (Gaud) Rock
Year:
1917
Pages:
76 leaves, 31 leaves of ill.
Subject:
Ohia-lehua Metrosideros Trees
Summary:
During the years 1741 to 1755 there appeared a work by George Eberhard Rumpf in six volumes entitled "Herbarium Ambionense." His name has been latinized to Rumphius and his work is now usually quoted as Rumphius, Herbarium Amboinense. It is in this work that the name Metrosideros appears for the first time. The genus Metrosideros was published in Book Four, (heft) pamphlet six, on Page 19, and the first specimen described under Metrosideros is figured on table seven. Rumphius figures and describes under the name of Metrosideros other plants which belong to five different families. The first is Metrosideros vera on plate seven of which Rumphius remarks as follows: "Ramum exhibet at Litt. A. floriferum arboris, quae Metrosideros vera seu Nani vocatur.
URL:
http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2010/pres2010-0070-04.pdf
Collection:
Monographs