92 Mr Burkill, On a collection of Plants [Feb. 10, 



ENUMERATION OF SPECIES 



obtained in the vicinity of Blanche Bay. 

 Pteridophyta. 



Asplenium Nidus L. 

 Asplenium falcatum L. 

 Nephrodium latifolium Baker. 

 Nephrolepis acuta Presl. 

 Polypodium adnascens Sw. 

 Polypodium sinuosum Wall. 

 Polypodium Linnaii Bory. 

 Lycopodium carinatum Desv. 

 Selaginella canaliculata Baker. 



Angiospepjvle. 



Monocotyledones. 



Panicum javanicum Poiret. 



Centotheca lappacea Desv. (recorded xviii.). 



Mariscus Sieberianus Nees. 



Calamus sp. 



Gordyline terminalis Kth. var Ti Baker. 



Alpinia (Hellenia) oceanica mihi {A. nutans K. Schum. 

 non Rose.) (recorded xviii.). Professor Schumann has described 

 this species, although not yet found in New Guinea, in the 

 flora of Kaiser Wilhelms Land 1 , and, supposing it to be a 

 form described by Rumphius, on which Linnseus founded his 

 species Olobba nutans, named it Alpinia nutans. I cannot agree 

 with him in this complicating of the synonymy. The matter 

 may be sifted somewhat as follows. In the Herbarium Amboi- 

 nense 2 Rumphius describes five species of Globba, of which the last 

 Globba sylvestris was found in two forms ; these he distinguishes as 

 Globba sylvestris major and Globba sylvestris minor sive florida*. 

 Linnaeus did not see even varietal difference between them, and 

 called Globba sylvestris of Rumphius Globba nutans 4 . Subsequently 

 Roscoe 5 thought his Alpinia nutans to be Globba nutans L., the 

 two being in size and habit somewhat similar, but probably erred. 

 Miquel 6 saw in Alpinia giganteaBl. one element of Linnaeus' species, 



1 Schumann u. Hollrung, Flora von Kaiser Wilhelms Land. Berlin 1889, 

 p. 28. 



2 Amsterdam 1750. Lib. xi. Cap. xxix. 



3 loc. cit. Cap. xxxiii. 



4 Mantissa, ii. Stockholm 1767, p. 170. 



5 Roscoe in Smith, Exotic Botany, n. London 1805, p. 93, and Monandrian 

 plants of the order Scitamineae. Liverpool, 1828, t. 73. 



6 Flora Indiae batavae, in. Amsterdam 1855, p. 605. 



