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RUMPH IUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



SCINDAPSUS Schott 



SCINDAPSUS M ARANTI FOLI US Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1857) 187. 

 Cuscuaria mar anti folia Schott Gen. Aroid. (1858) t. 80. 

 Cuscuaria rumphii Schott in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1863) 

 130. 



Scindapsus cannaeformis Engl, in Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. 4 (1879) 

 271. 



Aglaonema cuscuaria Miq. Fi. Ind. Bat. 3 (1857) 217 (type!). 

 Scindapsus cuscuaria Engl. & Krause in Engl. Pflanzenreich 37 



(1908) 68, non Pothos cuscuaria Aubl. 

 Pothos cuscuaria Gmel. Syst. 1 (1796) 274 (type!), non Aubl. 1775. 

 Adpendix cuscuaria latifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 488, t. 183, /. 1. 

 Amboina, Soja, Way tommo, and near the town of Amboina, Robinson 

 PL Rumph. Amb. 114, 115, August, 1913, on trees, altitude 7 to 250 meters, 

 locally known as kelady utan and daun mo. 



The specific name cuscuaria is invalid for this species. Pothos 

 cuscuaria Aubl., Hist. PL Guiane Franc. (1775) 840, was based on 

 specimens from South America with no reference to Rumphius, 

 although the specific name may have been taken from Rumphius. 

 Pothos cuscuaria Gmel., Syst. 1 (1796) 274, however, was based 

 wholly on Rumphius, not on Aublet. Aglaonema cuscuaria Miq. 

 was based on Pothos cuscuaria Gmel. (non Aubl.) and Cuscua- 

 ria latifolia Rumph., the latter being, accordingly, its type. 

 Poiret, in Lam. Encycl. 5 (1804) 605, follows Gmelin, as do also 

 Roemer and Schultes, Kunth, and Dietrich. 



ACORUS Linnaeus 



ACORUS CALAMUS Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 324. 



Acorum palustre et terrestre Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 178, t. 72, f. 1. 



The common sweet flag, amply described and fairly well 

 figured by Rumphius, is not represented in our Amboina col- 

 lections. It is found widely scattered in the Malayan region, 

 sometimes cultivated, occasionally wild at higher altitudes. It 

 was first reduced by Linnaeus in Stickman, Herb. Amb. (1754) 

 20, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 130, which has very generally been 

 followed by later authors. Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 208, 

 placed it under Orontium cochinchinense Lour. = Acorns cochin- 

 chinensis Schott- = A corns calamus Linn. Schultes, Syst. 7 1 

 (1829) 174, retains Acorus terrestris Rumph. as a species dis- 

 tinct from A. calamus Linn., following Spreng., Syst. 2 (1825) 

 118, who in turn based Acorus terrestris Spreng. on Acorus 

 calamus Lour. Engler, DC. Monog. Phan. 2 (1879) 217, cites 

 the Rumphian figure and description under Acorus calamus 

 Linn. var. terrestris (Spreng.) Engl. 



