from the 
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CONFtTSED CONCEPTION OF LlNNAEUs'S ANDROPOGO 
ANTHUS.— I'he second edition of tin Sp ( > -i..^ I'hnt m 
agrees with the first in t hedeiinition f An ir.,,,,,-/,',,, SI, 
Piwi > h. h .A--V ■:•.•., it> i>-il.)lii.' iriou Li-iu iimh !iu 1 <( Iivi' 
it Rumphius' ' S<-/i>> ••mnthu n A>a'> ii<ii,--i„i^ as a sva 
this was kept up in the following e litions. For \ f ,i| 
of this reduction I would refer the read, r to r 
citratus. The identifier! >n was ace epted by Lamarcl 
now,§ Roxburgh ;iud others, and was gradual I y ext. 
to include a number of other species, as will be mvh 
paragraphs dealing with their history. An important factor",, 
this development was the publication of a description and plate 
of M. Schoenanthus, L.,' from cultivated specimen 
bMiatT Nsluel, requires therefore to be explained. I atnarek. in 
1<»J, stated that " Anrfro/xx/un Srhoni //,//,//,s "— 1,,. included 
under it (a) Rumphius' plant (=,1. ritmh^ IX V) 
Kudt-/,uUit (=M. /fi'.riasii.i, Xees ex Steiid.) and 
author's Ranincr.ium (= .1. mnrimtnn, bet/.)— was cultivated in 
the .Jardiu du Roi (Jardin des ['(antes) aad tint he stw living 
specimens of it. Mr. If. Una, who kin II v locked up the Lanrrckian 
specimens of '.4. Schoenanthus,' informs me the 
no specimens from the Jardiu da Roi in Lamarck's 
What they actually were we tin re fore do not know. Seventeen 
years later we hear again of 'A. S<-lv>f<n<nithn** liimr in cultiva- 
tion in Paris, but this time in the garden of .1. M. 
Fortunately Ventenat's original sp cimen is preserved 
collection at Geneva, an I with it are two other sheets of exactly the 
same plant, collected bv Riche. One of them is labelled : •• A, aim- 
"tnthiis, Linn., Hort.Cels.pl. ex India. /.'/^. IL-rb.de 
\ entenat " ; the other contains merely the words " In 
Riche was the naturalist on board the ' Esperance,' one of the 
vessels sent in search of the 'La Perouse.' After having been 
forcibly detained on the return voyage with other members of the 
expedition in Java, he went to Mauritius (Isle de France) in 
May, 1 7 L ' J . returned to Java in August or September, and in the 
following ■ b Labillardiere and others of his 
colleagues for Mauritius, which they reached in May, 17:-... 
labillardiere stayed there till late in the autumn and arrived in 
France in the spring of 17'Jn. Whether b'iche returned with him 
or in the following year with Lahaye, another of the naturalists of 
Riche never was in India, and Ventenat's 'A. S<-h<«-,uo,t)Hi.^ was 
'■•'i-d (rom seeds collected by Riche in Mauritius about 1795. The 
indication "Indes" originated evidently from the vague sense, 
* Linnaeus. Sp-e. Plant, e-1. ii. (1TV.3). p. 14S1. 
t Rumphim ■ 1750), p. 181, tab. .2. 
t Lioi, S3), p. 375. 
§ Willdenow, .W PL " 15 - 
j] Roxbuiyh, --•>-,, p. 2.*. 
i Ventenat, Hort. Cels. (1S00), tab. 89. 
