GRAMINEAE 



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The plant figured in Volume V of the Herbarium Amboinense 

 was reduced by Linnaeus to Coix lachryma jobi in Stickman 

 Herb. Amb. (1754) 20, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 130, and in the 

 second edition of his Species Plantarum (1763) 1378, but by 

 error Linnaeus cites Ova piscium of Rumphius, rather than 

 Lachryma jobi indica; the two are figured on the same plate, 

 and the former is referred by Hasskarl to his Saccharum edule. 

 The two figures given by Rumphius represent fairly good habit 

 sketches of the common Job's tears, Coix lachryma jobi Linn. 

 Lithospermum amboinicum was also reduced by Linnaeus, op. 

 cit. 25, 134, to Coix lachryma jobi, but by error t. 8 is cited 

 instead of t. 9, although the Rumphian name is correctly given. 



IMPERATA Cyrillo 



IMPERATA CYLINDRICA (Linn.) Beauv. Agrost. (1812) expl. pi. 5, 

 t. 5, f. 1, var. KOENIGII (Retz.) Benth. ex Pilger in Perk. Frag. 

 Fl. Philip. (1904) 137. 

 Saccharum koenigii Retz. Obs. 5 (1789) 16. 

 Gramen caricosum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 17, t. 7, f. 2A. 

 Amboina, Hoetoemoeri road, on barren hillsides, Robinson PI. Rumph. 

 Amb. 39, September 30, 1913. 



Gramen caricosum was referred by Linnaeus, Syst. ed. 10 

 (1759) 869, to his Saccharum spicatum, but later, Sp. PL ed. 

 2 (1763) 1480, to his Andropogon caricosus. The latter species, 

 however, was based on Indian specimens and is a true Andro- 

 pogon. Although the specific name was taken from Rumphius, 

 the Rumphian figure and description cannot be interpreted as 

 the type. Saccharum spicatum Linn, is in itself a mixture, 

 but probably should be interpreted as an Imperata, not as Perotis 

 latifolia Ait. The erroneous reference of Gramen caricosum to 

 Andropogon caricosus by Linnaeus was followed by Burman f., 

 Fl. Ind. (1768) 218; by Lamarck, Encycl. 1 (1785) 373; and by 

 Willdenow, Sp. PI. 4 2 (1805) 902. Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 

 (1790) 53, follows the first Linnean reduction and considers it 

 under Saccharum spicatum Linn., while Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 

 1 (1832) 234, places it under Saccharum cylindricum Linn. 

 =Imperata cylindrica Beauv. 



MISCANTHUS Andersson 



MISCANTHUS SINENSIS Anders, in Oefv. Vet. Akad. Forhandl. Stockh. 

 (1855) 166. 

 Arundo farcta I Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 21. 



Arundo farcta Rumph. was referred by Linnaeus, with doubt, 

 to Andropogon nardus Linn., Mant. 2 (1771) 500, in which dis- 



