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cited as Funis quadrangular is, which is the name of the other 

 species figured on the same plate and which is Cissus quadran- 

 gularis Linn. The Linnean type was a specimen from Bengal 

 and is apparently the form described by Diels as Tinospora 

 crispa* The form figured by Rumphius differs notably from 

 the Asiatic one in its orbicular-ovate, prominently cordate leaves, 

 and Rumphius's figure agrees perfectly with material derived 

 from the type plant of Boerlage's Tinospora rumphii, a specimen 

 cultivated in the botanical garden at Buitenzorg, Java. I con- 

 sider that Boerlage was wrong in quoting as synonyms of his 

 species Menispermum crispum Linn, and Cocculus crispus DC, 

 and I am disposed to disagree with Diels in his reduction here 

 of Tinospora thorelii Gagnep., a cotype of which is before me. 

 The authority for Tinospora crispa should manifestly be 

 Miers, the combination being first published by him in Hooker 

 f. and Thomson's Flora Indica 1 (1855) 183, not in Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. II 7 (1851) 38, as frequently cited, and is typified 

 by Menispermum crispum Linn. Menispermum tuberculatum 

 Lam., to which Lamarck reduced Funis felleus Rumph. is pri- 

 marily only a new name for Menispermum crispum Linn., and 

 the description was based on a specimen collected by Sonnerat. 

 If the Linnean species be typified by the reference to Rumphius, 

 the only literature reference cited, then the name for this broad 

 and prominently cordate leaved form should be Menispermum 

 crispum (Linn.) Miers, but if the Linnean species be typified 

 by the Bengal plant cited, then apparently Boerlage's name must 

 be maintained for the Malayan form. 



Maccabuhay e Manila Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5 : 287, as to the name, 

 but not the description, is a species of Tinospora, either T. reticu- 

 lata Miers or the form characterized by Boerlage as T. rumphii. 

 The name macabuhay is universally applied in the Philippines 

 to two forms of Tinospora, but properly to the one with broad, 

 deeply cordate leaves that has a very bitter principle in its 

 stems. Rumphius's description of Maccabuhay e Manila ap- 

 parently applies to a terrestrial orchid. 



AN AM I RT A Colebrooke 



AN AM I RTA COCCULUS (Linn.) Wight & Arn. Prodr. 1 (1834) 446. 

 Menispermum cocculus Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 340. 

 Menispermum lacunosum Lam. Encycl. 4 (1797) 98 (type!). 

 Cocculus lacunosus DC. Syst. 1 (1818) 519 (type!). 

 Tuba baccifera Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 35, t. 22. 



Not represented in our Amboina collections. Linnaeus ori- 



* Engl. Pflanzenreich 46 (1910) 135. 



