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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



REM IREA Aublet 



REM I REA MARITIMA Aubl. PI. Guin. (1775) 45, t. 16. 

 Cyperus longus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 5, t. 2, f. 1. 

 Amboina, Hatiwe, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 436, September 4, 1913, 

 growing on the strand. 



The specimen agrees entirely with Rumphius's description and 

 with the excellent figure given by him. The identity of Cyperus 

 longus with Remirea maritime has not been previously sug- 

 gested. By Kunth, Enum. 2 (1837) 94, it was erroneously 

 reduced to Cyperus kyllingioides Vahl, following Roemer and 

 Schultes, Mant. 2 (1824) 98, who, however, cite by error Rheede's 

 Hortus Malabaricus, rather than Rumphius. This reduction is 

 followed by Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 152. 



PYCREUS Beauvois 



PYCREUS O DO RAT US (Linn.) Urb. Symb. Antil. 2 (1900) 164. 

 Cyperuu odoratus Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 46, excl. syn. Sloane. 

 Pycreus polystachyus Beauv. Fl. Oware et Benin 2 (1807) 48, t. 86, 

 f. 2. 



Cyperus polystachyus R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 214. 

 Cyperus floridus II mas Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 2, t. 1, f. 2. 

 Amboina, near the town of Amboina, along sandy beaches, Robinson PL 

 Rumph. Amb. 431, August 22, 1913. 



Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 151, refers both figures 1 

 and 2 of table 1 to Cyperus rotundus Linn. Figure 1 is certainly 

 correctly referred by him, but figure 2 and the description of 

 Cyperus floridus mas appear to me to agree better with the 

 common and widely distributed Pycreus odoratus Urb. 



CYPERUS Linnaeus 



CYPERUS ROTUNDUS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 45. 



Cyperus rotundus bulbosus sive legitimus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 1, 



t. 1, f. 1. 



This common species is not represented in our Amboina col- 

 lections, but there is not the slightest doubt as to the correctness 

 of this reduction, which follows both Kunth and Hasskarl. 



ELEOCH ARIS R. Brown 



ELEOCH ARIS DULCIS (Burm. f.) Trin. ex Henschel Vita Rumph. (1833) 

 186. 



Andropogon dulcis Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 219 (type!), 

 Hippuris indica Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 16. 

 Carex tuberosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 35. 

 Cyperus dulcis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 7, t. 3, f. 1. 



