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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



ginally reduced Tuba baccifera Rumph. to Menispermum 

 cocculus Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 18, Amoen. 

 Acad. 4 (1759) 128, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 992, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1763) 

 1468, which, as Anamirta cocculus (Linn.) W. & A., is certainly 

 the correct disposition of it. Lamarck made it the type of 

 Menispermum lacunosum, and in turn it thus became the type 

 of Cocculus lacunosus DC. The species, a very characteristic 

 one, is the sole known representative of the genus and extends 

 from India to the Philippines and southward to New Guinea. 



ARCANGELISI A Beccari 



ARCANGEL1SIA FLAVA (Linn.) comb. nov. 



Menispermum flavum Linn, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 14, Amoen. 



Acad. 4 (1759) 128, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 992 (type!). 

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

 Anamirta flavescens Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 2 (1858) 79 (type!). 

 Cocculus flavescens DC. Syst. 1 (1818) 520 (type!). 

 Arcangelisia inclyta Becc. in Malesia 1 (1877) 147. 

 Anamirta lemniscata Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ill 14 (1864) 51. 

 Arcangelisia leminscata Becc. in Malesia 1 (1877) 147; Diels in Engl. 



Pflanzenreich 46 (1910) 106, /. 38. 

 Tuba flava Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 38, t. 24. 



This is not represented in our Amboina collections. Tuba 

 flava Rumph. has been confused in recent botanical literature 

 with Anamirta cocculus Wight & Arn., and several of the above 

 names are cited as synonyms of Anamirta cocculus (Linn.) 

 Wight & Arn. in the most recent monograph of the family; * 

 Menispermum flavum Linn, is not accounted for in this mono- 

 graph. The first four names cited above are based absolutely 

 and wholly on Tuba flava Rumph. That Arcangelisia and not 

 Anamirta is the proper disposition of it is proved by the original 

 description, leaves 5-nerved at the base, "autem cordiformia 

 sed inf erius non excavata ;" by the fruit, size, and other charac- 

 ters; and especially by the color of the woody tissue, "interne 

 eleganter flavescunt;" this last character alone being one by 

 which Arcangelisia can always be distinguished from Anamirta. 

 Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 626, cites Tuba flava Rumph. as 

 a synonym of Fibraurea tinctoria Lour., a valid species, the 

 type of the genus Fibraura, but one that has little in common 

 with Arcangelisia. Arcangelisia flava extends from Java to 

 Luzon and New Guinea, and was collected in Amboina by 

 Teysmann. 



* Diels in Engl. Pflanzenreich 46 (1910) 108. 



