410 RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



A form that almost certainly represents the Rumphian plant 

 is in cultivation in the botanic garden at Buitenzorg, Java, 

 "XIII-J-31," which originated in the Moluccas. The Rumphian 

 description and figure are the whole basis of Panax pinnatum 

 Lam. and Panax secundum Schultes and hence of Nothopanax 

 pinnatum Miq. Most authors have followed Lamarck and cite 

 the Rumphian plant as Panax pinnatum Lam. The species is 

 as yet very imperfectly known, and its relationship to several 

 forms distinguished in comparatively recent years in horticul- 

 tural literature is obscure, such as Aralia maculata Truff., Aralia 

 guilfoylei Cogn. & March., etc. Polyscias rumphiana Harms was 

 proposed by Harms in transferring the species to Polyscias, on 

 account of the earlier Polyscias pinnata Forst. However, 

 Schultes's name was available, although overlooked by Doctor 

 Harms. 



NOTHOPANAX FRUTICOSUM (Linn.) Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 (1857) 765. 



Panax fruticosum Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2 (1763) 1513. 

 Scutellaria tertia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 78, t. 33. 



Amboina, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 387, September 25, 1913, cultivated 

 or semicultivated, near the town of Amboina, locally known as pagar pagar. 



The Rumphian name and figure are cited by Linnaeus in the 

 original description of the species, and in this reduction he has 

 been consistently followed by nearly all authors. I prefer, how- 

 ever, to follow Miquel in considering the species under Notho- 

 panax. Harms, in Engl, and Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3 8 

 (1894) 43-45, places all species of Nothopanax under Polyscias. 



PANAX Linnaeus 



PANAX GINSENG C. A. Mey. in Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Petersb. 1 



(1843) 340. 



Piadix sinica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 7: 42, t. 21, f. 1. 



There is little doubt that the plant discussed by Rumphius 

 is the common Chinese ginseng, but the figure given by Rumph- 

 ius, other than that of the root, appears to be largely imagi- 

 nary. Henschel referred it to Sium ninsi Linn., a species the 

 status of which is not understood ; it may prove to be the oldest 

 name for Panax ginseng. Hasskarl, Neue Schliissel (1866) 190, 

 placed it under Sium siarum Linn. var. ninsi DC. ; both this 

 reduction and the one suggested above are open to serious objec- 

 tions, although the matter of the exact identity of the plant 

 Rumphius discussed is of slight importance, as no question of 

 nomenclature is involved. 



