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ROXBURGH'S HORTUS BENGALENSIS. 419 
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India, there is double reason for taking it up. It is based 
primarily on *'Marrubium Amboinicum album Rumph. Amb. 1. 
8. c. 75. tab. 72," 2* It has especial importance as the type of 
the genus Coleus Lour, 
Ruellia cernua Roxb. i^ maintained ^^ for a species of very 
local distribution in India, which can hardly possibly be typified 
by a description founded on a plant of Amboina. 
CalM oblongifolia is the basis for Aglaonema oblongifolium 
Schott, but following the synonymy cited, would not have been 
the oldest name, but for the corrected date of publication. 
Ficics infectoria Roxb. is not the species of that name in recent 
works," but being based on Hort. Malab. 3: pL 6^, is Ficiis 
Tjakela Burm. 
Gnetum scandens Roxb. is maintained in the Flora of British 
India, but its oldest name is G. edule (Willd.) BL, based on the 
same plate of Rheede. 
Mortis paniculata Roxb. appears to be the oldest name for 
Pipturus velutinus (Decne.) Wedd. 
The treatment of the names Sagus spinosus and S, inermis, as 
compared with that of the plates on which they are based, is 
different in the Flora of British India ^"^ and in the Hortus 
Bengalensis. 
Pandamts furcatus Roxb. is maintained,=^^ but Rheede's plate 
on which it was based is cited under P. fascicularis Lam. 
Batis spinosa Roxb. is treated ^^ as the original publication of 
the species known as Plecospermum spinosum Trecul, but with 
the exclusion of the synonym of Rumphius, which is its sole 
basis. 
Lycopodium aristatum is doubtfully placed by Baker ^^ under 
Selaginella exigita Spring. 
Piper arborescens Roxb. ex Wall. Cat. is identified ^^ as 
Thottea dependens Kl,, but there can be no doubt that the true 
Piper arborescent, typified by Herb. Amb. 5: pL 28, f, 1, is 
a genuine Piper, 
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•* The plate number is wrong, and a better citation would be Herb. Amb. 
6: 294. pi 102, /. 2. 
=*FL Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 413. 
Tl. Brit. Ind. 5 (1888) 514, 515. 
*^6 (1893) 481. 
**F1. Brit. Ind. 6 (1893) 484. 
»F1. Brit. Ind. 5 (1888) 491. 
"Fern Allies (1887) 67. 
•*F1. Brit. Ind. 5 (1886) 74. 
Voh VII, No. 5, including pages 259 to 362, was issued November 15, 
1912. 
