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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



arvensis Forsk.=D. muricata (Linn.) Mart. Other names in- 

 volved in the reduction of Blitum frutescens Rumph. are Clado- 

 stachys arborescens Don, Cladostachys muricata Moq., and C. 

 frutescens Don ; the first two are synonyms of Digera muricata 

 (Linn.) Mart., the last is a synonym of Deeringia amaranthoides 

 (Lam.) Merr. 



CELOSIA Linnaeus 



CELOSIA ARGENTEA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 205. 



Amarantus caudatus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 237. 

 Amboina, Koesoekoesoe sereh and town of Amboina, Robinson PL Rumph. 

 Amb. 133, August, 1913, in waste places at low altitudes, locally known as 

 bay am blanda. 



This reduction was first suggested by Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel 

 (1866) 115, and I consider it to be the correct disposition of 

 Amarantus caudatus Rumph. 



CELOSIA CRISTATA Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 205. 



Amarantus japonicus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 236, t. 84. 

 Amarantus vulgaris Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 236. 



This commonly cultivated species is not represented in our 

 Amboina collections. Amarantus japonicus Rumph. was orig- 

 inally reduced by Linnaeus to Celosia cristata Linn., in Stick- 

 man Herb. Amb. (1754) 21, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 130, Syst. 

 ed. 10 (1759) 493, in which he was followed by numerous 

 authors, and which is certainly the correct disposition of it. 

 In the second edition of the Species Plantarum, however, (1762) 

 297, he referred it to Celosia castrensis Linn., a synonym of 

 Celosia cristata Linn. Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 114, 

 refers Amarantus japonicus Rumph. to Celosia cristata Linn, 

 var. splendens Moq., and Amarantus vulgaris to Celosia cristata 

 Linn. var. exaltata Hassk. 



AMARANTH US Linnaeus 



AMARANTHUS VIRIDIS Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) 1405. 



Blitum indicum domesticum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 231, t. 82, f. 1. 



Blitum indicum I album Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 231. 



Blitum indicum II maculosum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 231. 



Blitum indicum II maculosum amboinicum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 231. 

 Amboina, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 139, August 20, 1913, in waste 

 places, locally known as bayang. Also Rel. Robins. 2513, 2514 from Bali, 

 July 7, 1913. 



Blitum indicum Rumph., including both forms figured by 

 Rumphius on plate 82, was reduced by Linnaeus to Amaranthus 

 tristis Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 21, Amoen. Acad. 



