UMBELLIFERAE 



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UMBELLIFERAE 

 CENTELLA Linnaeus 



CENTELLA ASIATICA (Linn.) Urban in Mart. Fl. Bras. 287. 



Hydrocotyle asiatica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 234. 



Pes equinus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 455, t. 169, f. 1. 

 Amboina, Soja road, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 326, August 1, 1913, 

 common up to an altitude of 300 meters. 



The reduction of Pes equinus to Hydrocotyle asiatica was first 

 made by Linnaeus, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 24, Amoen. 

 Acad. 4 (1759) 133, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 953, Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 

 338, which has been followed by many succeeding authors. 

 Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 176, cites the Rumphian figure 

 as representing the new genus and species Trisanthus cochinchin- 

 ensis Lour., which is a synonym of Centella asiatica (Linn.) 

 Urban. 



ANTH ERISCUS Bernhardi 



ANTH ERISCUS sp.? 



Levisticum indicum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 269, t. 93, f. 3. 



Nothing resembling this is represented in our Amboina col- 

 lections, and Levisticum indicum Rumph. has never been satisfac- 

 torily reduced. Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 179, places 

 it under Bubon macedonicus Linn. = A thamantha macedonica 

 Spreng., while Henschel thought it might be Ligusticum striatum 

 Roxb. =Selinum striatum Benth. & Hook. f. ; the range of this, 

 Himalayan, makes the suggested reduction of Rumphius's Levis- 

 ticum indicum an impossible one. Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel 

 (1866) 119, mentions the resemblance of the figure to Apium in- 

 volucratum Roxb. and Cnidium diffusum DC. Field work and a 

 critical study of the various species of Umbelliferae cultivated 

 in the Malay Archipelago should solve the problem of the status 

 of Levisticum indicum, as Rumphius states that the plant was 

 cultivated only, and that it was rare in Amboina, but more 

 abundant in Java and Ternate. It may prove to be Antheriscus 

 cereifolium Hoffm., which Koorders reports from Java, but should 

 be critically compared with Ligusticum acutilobum Sieb. & Zucc. 



CARUM Ruppius 



CARUM COPTICUM (Linn.) Benth. ex C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. 2 (1879) 682. 

 Ammi copticum Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 56. 



Ligusticum ajowan Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 21, nomen nudum, Fl. 

 Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 91. 



