140 RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



long infructescences. The petioles, including the very promi- 

 nent sheathing base, are 5 to 6 cm in length. The infructes- 

 cences are about 20 cm long, with at least four long-peduncled 

 umbels. Fruits globose, about 1 cm in diameter. 



It may or may not be the same as Pseudochina alba latifolia 

 Rumph., but it is quite certain that the Rumphian plant is not 

 the same as Smilax villandia Ham. =S. indica Vitm. under which 

 name it is briefly discussed by Hasskarl. 



SMILAX CHINA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1029? 



Smilax sarmentis spinulosis etc. Rumph. Herb. Amb. 7: 72, t. 30? 

 Radix chinae Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 441? 



The identity of the two Rumphian synonyms cited above can 

 only be surmised. Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 144, con- 

 siders Radix chinae to be the same as Smilax aspera Linn., and 

 the other as possibly representing S. bauhinioides Kunth. Plate 

 30 of the Auctuarium is missing in our copy of the Herbarium 

 Amboinense. 



AMARYLLIDACEAE 

 CRINUM Linnaeus 



CRINUM ASIATICUM Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 292. 



Crinum toxicarium Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 23 (type!), Fl. Ind. 



ed. 2, 2 (1832) 134. 

 Radix toxicaria I major Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 155, t. 69. 



Amboina, Amahoesoe, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 130, August 30, 1913, 

 along the seashore, locally known as bauang laut. 



Radix toxicaria Rumph. was originally reduced by Linnaeus 

 to Crinum asiaticum Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 28, 

 Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 136, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 976, a reduction 

 that is certainly correct, and one that has been accepted by 

 most authors. It is the type of Crinum toxicarium Roxb., which 

 was based wholly on the Rumphian figure and description, Hort. 

 Bengal. (1814) 23; see C. B. Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 

 (1912) Bot. 413. It was cited later in the very brief description 

 given in the second edition of the Flora Indica. The species 

 is very widely distributed along the seashores of the Indo- 

 Malayan and Polynesian regions; it is exceedingly variable in 

 size, depending on the age of the plant and on its habitat. The 

 form very briefly described by Rumphius as Radix toxicaria III 

 montana, 1. c. 156, from Ceram, is probably merely a dwarfed 

 form of Crinum asiaticum Linn. 



