850 The Philippine Journal of Science 1921 
CARYOPHYLLACEAE 
COMETES Linnaeus 
COMETES SURATTENSIS Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 39. 
Cometes surattensis Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 39, t. 15, f. 5. 
This was based on Indian material. The species was de- 
scribed one year earlier by Linnaeus under the same binomial, 
the material described by both authors doubtless being parts of 
the same collection. 
NYMPHAEACEAE 
NYMPHAEA Tournefort 
NYMPHAEA NOUCHALI Burm. f. FI. Ind. (1768) 120. “Habitat Coro- 
mandeli.” 
Nymphaea pubescens Willd. Sp. Pl. 2 (1799) 1154. 
This is tentatively reduced in Index Kewensis to Nymphaea 
stellata Willd., but it would seem that, in spite of the descrip- 
tion of the flowers as “caeruleo,” it is the same as Nymphaea 
pubescens Willd. (1797), in which case Burman’s name should 
be adopted for the Species. Conard, The Waterlilies, Carnegie 
Inst. Washington Publ. 4 (1905) 198, t. 17, cites Burman’s species 
as a synonym of Willdenow’s on the basis of an actual specimen 
examined by him: “coll. [that is, ex herb.] Burman in India, in 
hb. Delessert.” 
MENISPERMACEAE 
TINOSPORA Miers 
*TINOSPORA sp. 
Menispermum glabrum Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 216 (err. typ. 316). 
“Habitat in Java.” 
The reference to Cit-amerdy Rheede Hort. Malabar. 7: 39, . 
#1, should be excluded, as it represents Tinospora cordifolia 
(DC.) Miers, a species of wide distribution in India, but which 
does not extend to Java; Burman’s species was based on an 
actual Javan specimen. I cannot determine, from the short 
description or from the Javanese name cited, daun tayonam, 
the proper status of Burman’s species, except that it apparently 
belongs in the Menispermaceae; it may prove to be the same as 
Tinospora rumphii Boerl. It is not accounted for by Diels in 
his recent monograph of the Menispermaceae, Engl. Pflanzen- 
reich 46 (1910) 1 345. 
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