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Pandanus caricosus Spreng. Syst. 3 (1826) 897 (type!); Kunth 

 Enum. 3 (1841) 98, non Pandanus caricosus Kurz in Journ. Bot. 

 5 (1867) 100, t. 62, f. 1-3, nec Warb. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 3 

 (1900) 83. 



Pandanus caricosus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 154. 

 Amboina, Paso, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 437, November 25, 1913, along 

 margins of streams near the beach. 



Pandanus caricosus Rumph. is unquestionably a Scirpioden- 

 dron, although the leaves, as described, are unusually long for 

 S. ghaeri Merr. The description of the infructescence and 

 fruit, however, is unquestionably Scirpiodendron: "Ejus fructus 

 raro in conspectum venit, atque in peculiari progerminat petiolo, 

 pedem circiter alto, & supra radicem elevato, qui foliis cingitur 

 tribus, in triangulo positis, uti in Cypero." Pandanus caricosus 

 Spreng. is based absolutely on the Rumphian description, and 

 the species as described by him, after Rumphius, is repeated 

 by various other authors. Kurz,* however, described a true 

 Pandanus, under the name Pandanus caricosus, which was ac- 

 cepted by Warburg f as a valid species. As Kurz's name is 

 invalidated by Pandanus caricosus Spreng., I propose the new 

 specific designation Pandanus kurzii, for Pandanus caricosus Kurz, 

 non Spreng. 



MAPANIA Aublet 



MAPAN1A MACROCEPHALA (Gaudich.) K. Sch. ex Warb. in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. 13 (1891) 265. 

 Hypolytrum macrocephalum Gaudich. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. (1826) 414. 

 Lepironia macrocephala Miq. 111. Fl. Archipel. Ind. (1871) 64, t. 27. 

 Carex laevis major Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 21. 

 Amboina, Batoe gadjah, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 4.30, August 5, 1913, 

 along streams, altitude about 150 meters. 



Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 155, has suggested that 

 Carex laevis major of Rumphius is Pandanophyllum palustre 

 Hassk., but Rumphius's description does not agree, especially 

 in the statement as to the stalk of the inflorescence bearing 

 two or three long leaves. It is, with very little doubt, Mapania 

 macrocephala K. Sch. 



SCLERIA Bergius 



SCLERIA LITHOSPERMA Sw. Prodr. (1788) 18. 



Carex amboinica II minor Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 20. 

 Amboina, Wakeroe, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 435, near the seashore, 

 October 17, 1913. 



* Journ. Bot. 5 (1867) 100, t. 62, f. 1-3. 

 fEngl. Pflanzenreich 3 (1900) 83. 



