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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



PORTULACA QUADRIFIDA Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 73. 



Portulaca indica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 268 (incl. /// minima, IV 

 litorea) . 



Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 119, has reduced both of 

 the above-mentioned forms, Portulaca indica III and IV, to 

 P. quadrifida Linn. A single specimen of the latter occurs in 

 our Amboina collection, PL Rumph. Amb. 222, from coral rocks 

 at Silali, September 22, 1913. This may be the correct disposi- 

 tion of the Rumphian plants, or they may have been merely 

 forms of the commoner and variable Portulaca oleracea Linn. 



BASELLACEAE 



BASELLA Linnaeus 



BASELLA RUBRA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 272. 

 Basella alba Linn. 1. c. 



Gandola I alba Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 417. 



Gandola II rubra Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 417, t. 154, f. 2. 



The form figured by Rumphius was originally reduced by 

 Linnaeus to Basella rubra Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 

 24, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 132, which has been accepted by 

 all authors except Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 183, who 

 called it Basella nigra Lour. ; the latter is manifestly a synonym 

 of B. rubra Linn. The form described by Rumphius as Gandola 

 alba was placed by Linnaeus, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1752) 390, under 

 Basella alba Linn., which has very generally been followed by 

 succeeding authors ; it is manifestly the form described by Lin- 

 naeus as Basella alba Linn., but which is now reduced to B. 

 rubra Linn., it being manifestly only a variant of that species. 



NYMPHAEACEAE 



NELUMBIUM Jussieu 



NELUMBIUM NELUMBO (Linn.) Druce Bot. Exch. Club (1914) 421. 

 Nymphaea nelumbo Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 511. 

 Nelumbium speciosum Willd. Sp. PI. 2 (1799) 1258. 

 Nelumbo javanica Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 4 (1798) 454. 

 Nymphaea indica major Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 168, t. 73. 



Rumphius gives a good figure of the common lotus, this being 

 first reduced by Linnaeus to Nymphaea nelumbo Linn., in Stick- 

 man Herb. Amb. (1754) 28, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 136, Syst. 

 ed. 10 (1759) 1074, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 730. It has been 

 also cited under Nelumbium speciosum Willd., the commonly 

 accepted name for the species, and Nelumbo javanica Poir., 

 a synonym of Nelumbium nelumbo (Linn.) Druce. The several 



