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sary from Amboina before the exact status of these two forms 

 can be determined. 



SCH I SMATO GLOTTIS Zollinger and Moritzi 



SCHISMATOGLOTTIS CALYPTRATA (Roxb.) Zoll. & Mor. Syst. Verz. 

 (1854) 83. 



Calla calyptrata Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 65, nomen nudum, Fl. Ind. 



ed. 2, 3 (1832) 514. 

 Homalomena calyptratum Kunth. Enum. 3 (1841) 57. 

 Schismato glottis longipes Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 214. 

 Arisarum esculentum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 321, t. Ill, /. 1. 

 Amboina, Halong, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 112, September 26, 1913, 

 river banks at an altitude of 40 meters, locally known as kasisi. 



Linnaeus originally reduced Arum esculentum, through error, 

 to Arum peregrinum Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 

 22, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 131. The type of Calla calyptrata 

 Roxb. was from Amboina, and Roxburgh cites the Rumphian 

 figure and description in the original description as representing 

 his species. Other names involved in the reduction are Colocasia 

 humilis Hassk. and Schismato glottis longipes Miq. 



AGLAONEMA Schott 



AGLAONEMA OBLONG I FOLIUM (Roxb.) Kunth Enum. 3 (1841) 55. 



Calla oblongifolia Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 65 (type!); Fl. Ind. ed. 



2, 3 (1832) 516. 

 Aglaonema marantifolium Blume Rumphia 1 (1835) 153. 

 Scindapsus erectus Presl Epim. (1851) 241 (type!). 

 Arum aquaticum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 312, t. 108. 

 Adpendix erecta Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 487, t. 182, f. 2. 



Not represented in our Amboina collections. The figures and 

 the descriptions of both the Rumphian species cited above agree 

 closely with Aglaonema oblongif olium Kunth (A. marantifolium 

 Blume) as currently interpreted. Arum aquaticum Rumph. is 

 the whole basis of Calla oblongifolia Roxb. as originally published 

 by Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. (1814) 65, by citation of the Rumphian 

 figure; see C. B. Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 

 414, 419. The description subsequently published by Roxburgh 

 was based on specimens cultivated at Calcutta, which originated 

 in the Moluccas. Adpendix erecta Rumph. is the basis of Scin- 

 dapsus erectus Presl and was also cited by Blume in the original 

 description of Aglaonema marantifolium Blume. Linnaeus first 

 reduced Arum aquaticum Rumph. to Arum ovatum Linn., in 

 Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 22, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 131, 

 Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1251, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1763) 1371, but this 

 disposition of it was entirely wrong. 



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