LEMNACEAE— BROMELIACEAE 



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ARACEAE OF UNCERTAIN STATUS 



Two forms very briefly described or mentioned by Rumphius are entirely 

 indeterminable; these are Erva de Sta Maria Rumph., Herb. Amb. 5: 326, 

 and Itelpou Rumph., 1. c. 327. Hasskarl thought that the former might be 

 a representative of the Araceae, which is probably correct, and that the 

 latter might be Brachyspatha variabilis Schott — Amorphophallus variabilis 

 Blume ; neither was from Amboina. 



LEMNACEAE 



LEMNA Linnaeus 



LEMNA sp. 



Lens palustris Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 178. 



Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 180, placed this under Lemna 

 minor Linn., following Miquel. Rumphius gives no description, 

 and the plant he named may have been any of the Malayan 

 Lemnaceae of the genus Lemna or the genus Spirodela. 



FLAGELLARIACEAE 



FLAGELLARIA Linnaeus 



FLAGELLARIA INDICA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 333. 



Palmijuncus laevis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 120, t. 59, f. 1. 

 Amboina, Paso and Eri, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 211, September and 

 October, 1913, in thickets near the seashore. 



The original reduction of Palmijuncus laevis Rumph. to Fla- 

 gellaria indica was made by Linnaeus, in Stickman Herb. Amb. 

 (1753) 20, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 129, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 989, 

 Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 475, which has been followed by all authors, 

 and which is certainly the correct disposition of it. 



BROMELIACEAE 



ANANAS Tournefort 



ANANAS COM OS US (Linn.) comb. nov. 



Bromelia ananas Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 285. 



Bromelia comosa Linn, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 21, Amoen. 



Acad. 4 (1759) 130 (type!). 

 Ananas sativus Schultes f. Syst. 7 (1830) 1283. 

 Ananassa sativa Lindl. Bot. Reg. (1827) sub t. 1068. 

 Anassa domestica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 227, t. 81. 



Amboina, Koesoekoesoe sereh, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 382, October 3, 

 1913, semicultivated, locally known as nanas. 



The common pineapple, as described and figured by Rumphius, 

 is the whole basis of Bromelia comosa Linn, as originally pub- 



