GRAMINEAE 



93 



Spinifex squarrosus Linn. Mant. 2 (1771) 300. 

 Cyperus littoreus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6:6, t. 2, f. 2. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collection. It 

 is a very widely distributed grass, occurring on sandy beaches 

 in the Indo-Malayan region, and Rumphius gives a good figure 

 of the pistillate plant. Cyperus littoreus is, by citation, the type 

 of Stipa littorea Burm. f., and the specific name is taken from 

 Rumphius; however, it is perfectly evident that Burman f. also 

 had actual specimens of the same plant. It is also cited by 

 Linnaeus in the original publication of Stipa spinifex Linn., Mant. 

 1 (1767) 34, and under Spinifex squarrosus Linn, by Willdenow, 

 Sp. PI. 4 2 (1805) 1129; by Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 647; 

 and by other authors. 



ORYZA Linnaeus 



ORYZA SATIVA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 333. 



Oryza vulgaris Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 196. 

 Oryza glutinosa Rumph. op. cit. 201. 



Rice is not represented in our Amboina collections. Six forms 

 are described under Oryza vulgaris, and three under Oryza 

 glutinosa, but all are manifestly cultural forms of the polymor- 

 phous species Oryza sativa Linn. Oryza communis sima Lour., 

 O. praecox Lour., O. montana Lour., and O. glutinosa Lour., Fl. 

 Cochinch. (1790) 215, while based primarily on specimens from 

 China or Cochin-China, all have references to Rumphius. 

 Linnaeus, by error, refers t. 7k to Oryza, in Amoen. Acad. 4 

 (1759) 130. Table 7k is Saccharum officinarum, while table 

 75 bis, the plate apparently intended by Linnaeus, represents a 

 form of Andropogon sorghum Linn, and Setaria italica Kunth; 

 table 75 represents Coix lachryma jobi Linn, and apparently a 

 form of Saccharum officinarum, probably the species proposed by 

 Hasskarl as Saccharum edule Hassk. The common rice plant is 

 not figured by Rumphius. 



CYNODON * Persoon 

 CYNODON DACTYLON (Linn.) Pers. Syn. 1 (1804) 85. 

 Panicum dactylon Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 58. 

 Capriola dactylon O. Ktze. Rev. Gen. PI. 1 (1891) 764. 

 Gramen repens minus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 11. 



This common and widely distributed species is not represented 

 in our Amboina collection. Hasskarl has made this reduction of 

 Gramen repens minus with doubt, but it is perfectly evident that 

 Cynodon dactylon Pers. is the plant described by Rumphius. 



* Retained name, Vienna Code; Capriola Adans. (1763) is older. 



