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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



lished by Linnaeus in the year 1754. It is thus the oldest 

 valid specific name for the species. The Rumphian figure, which 

 is excellent, has very generally been cited by various authors 

 under one or the other of the synonyms given above. The forms 

 indicated by Rumphius as mas, femina, and alba are apparently 

 merely cultural forms of the common pineapple. 



COMMELINACEAE 



COM M ELI N A Linnaeus 



COM M ELI N A N U Dl FLORA Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 41. 



Arundinella I minor Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 23, t. 9, f. 2. 



Amboina, Soja and Roemah tiga, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 4.07, July 

 and August, 1913, locally known as kangkong. 



The Rumphian plant has generally been reduced to Commelina 

 benghalensis Linn., and the description, in part, seems to apply 

 to that species. The figure is very poor, but the description 

 is at least sufficiently definite to place the plant Rumphius in- 

 tended in Commelina. Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 16, referred 

 it to Commelina benghalensis Linn., while Commelina rumphii 

 Kostel., Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1 (1831) 126, may have been 

 based wholly or in part on Rumphius (publication not seen) . 



COMMELINA BENGHALENSIS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 41. 

 Arundinella II major Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 24. 

 Amboina, near the town of Amboina, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 406, 

 July 22, 1913, locally known as kangkong ayer. 



Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 155, has suggested Commelina 

 communis Linn, as the proper disposition of Arundinella II 

 major, but the description appears to me better to apply to 

 Commelina benghalensis Linn. 



AN EILEM A R. Brown 



AN El LEM A VITIENSE Seem. var. PETIOLATA C. B. Clarke in DC. 

 Monog. Phan. 3 (1881) 220. 

 Arundinella IV Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 25. 

 Amboina, Soja and Kaju poeti, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 408, August, 

 1913, along roadsides and in forests. 



Whether the plant is the above form or the very closely 

 allied Aneilema monadelphum Kunth, it is undoubtedly the form 

 that Rumphius described. Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 155, 

 expressed the opinion that it was some species of Gramineae, but 

 the characters indicated by Rumphius for Arundinella IV all 

 apply to this species of Aneilema. 



