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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



than the above, which Hasskarl indicated as Phyllitis amboinica 

 III, is indeterminable, but is certainly no Asplenium; it may be a 

 Vittaria. 



BLECHNUM Linnaeus 



BLECHNUM ORIENTALE Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1077. 



Polypodium simplex Burm. f. PI. Ind. (1768) 235 (type!). 

 Lonchitis amboinica recta I major rubra Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 70, 

 t. 30, f. 1. 



Under the name Lonchitis amboinica Rumphius described sev- 

 eral quite unrelated species, apparently pertaining to as many 

 different genera as he described forms. The form figured, t. 30, 

 f. I, which manifestly is recta I major rubra, is unquestionably 

 Blechnum orientate Linn. It was reduced by Burman f. to 

 Polypodium simplex Burm. f., a species apparently typified by 

 the Rumphian illustration, and one that has remained of uncer- 

 tain status until the present time. Loureiro erroneously re- 

 ferred it to Pteris vittata Linn., while Henschel, following Blume, 

 placed it as an undetermined species of Angiopteris. The red 

 color of the young pinnae, mentioned by Rumphius, is very char- 

 acteristic of Blechnum orientate Linn. 



STENOCHLAENA J. Smith 



ST ENOCH LA EN A PALUSTRIS (Burm. f.) Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. Suppl. 



(1876) 26. 



Polypodium palustre Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 234. 



Lonchitis amboinica III volubilis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 71, t. 31. 



Not represented in our Amboina collections. The figure, how- 

 ever, unquestionably represents a species of Stenochlaena, and 

 from the description quite certainly S. palustris (Burm. f.) Bedd. 

 It has been reduced by Willdenow to Lomaria scandens Willd., 

 and by Poiret to Onoclea scandens Sw., both synonyms of Steno- 

 chlaena palustris Bedd. 



CHEILANTHES Swartz 



CHEILANTHES TEN U I FOLIA (Burm. f.) Sw. Syn. (1806) 129, 332. 



Trichomanes tenuifolia Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 237. 



Acrostichum tenue Retz. Obs. 6 (1791) 39. 



Dryopteris campestris Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 74, t. 3J+, f. 2. 

 Amboina, Way tommo, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. Uh2, August 19, 1913, 

 terrestrial, altitude about 80 meters. 



The Rumphian illustration is unmistakably this species. It 

 was first reduced by Burman f., in the original description of 

 Trichomanes tenuifolia Burm f., and has been cited under the 

 synonyms given above as well as under the additional synonym 

 Adiantum varians Poir. 



