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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



NEPENTHACEAE 



NEPENTHES Linnaeus 



NEPENTHES M I RABi LIS (Lour.) Merr. comb. nov. 



Phyllamphora mirabilis Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 606. 



Nepenthes phyllamphora Willd. Sp. PI. 4 2 (1805) 874. 



Cantharifera Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 121, t. 59, f. 2. 

 Amboina, Batoe mera, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 256, July 31, 1913, on 

 a fern-covered hillside along the river at an altitude of from 10 to 50 

 meters; Batoe gadjah, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 257, August 5, 1913, on 

 grassy hillsides at an altitude of about 150 meters. 



Cantharifera was erroneously reduced by Linnaeus to Nepen- 

 thes distillatoria Linn., the type of the genus, and a species 

 confined to Ceylon, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 20, Amoen. 

 Acad. 4 (1759) 129, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1247, Sp. PI. ed. 2 

 (1763) 1354, in which he was followed by Burman f., Fl. Ind. 

 (1768) 190. Loureiro, however, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 606, 

 described a Cochin-China specimen as Phyllamphora mirabilis 

 Lour., and under it he discussed Cantharifera Rumph., stating 

 that it differed from his plant in its prostrate stems and scandent 

 branches. The species, as described by Loureiro, must be inter- 

 preted from Cochin-China specimens, but in all probability is 

 the same as the widely distributed species commonly known as 

 Nepenthes phyllamphora Willd., which is definitely known from 

 low altitudes from southern China to the Philippines, Borneo, 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Amboina, the Caroline Islands, and 

 New Guinea. Nepenthes phyllamphora Willd. was based wholly 

 on Loureiro's species, but Willdenow definitely refers here Can- 

 tharifera Rumph. Under the accepted code of botanical nomen- 

 clature the above new combination is necessary for this 

 well-known and widely distributed species ; both names, Phyllam- 

 phora mirabilis and Nepenthes phyllamphora, must be inter- 

 preted by the plant Loureiro described. 



NEPENTHES MAXIMA Reinw. ex Nees in Ann. Sci. Nat. I 3 (1824) 369, 

 t. 20, f. 3. 



Cantharifera alba Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 122. 

 Amboina, Salahoetoe, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 413, November 27, 1913, 

 terrestrial and climbing, chiefly at an altitude of about 900 meters, locally 

 known as tampayan utan. 



The identification of Cantharifera alba with Nepenthes maxi- 

 ma Reinw. was suggested by Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 

 103, and there is but very little doubt that this is the correct 

 disposition of it. It was described by Rumphius from specimens 

 received from the neighboring island of Little Ceram and was 



