412 RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



Ptychotis ajowan DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 109. 

 Carum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 270. 

 Amudium Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 270. 



The form described by Rumphius under the name Carum is 

 unquestionably Ptychotis ajowan DC.=Carum copticum Benth., 

 for which Rumphius cites the native names aydjuan and djintam 

 soa. Kenschei thought that it might be de Candolle's species. 

 Amudium was thought by Henschel to be Ptychotis roxburgh- 

 iana DC. = Carum roxburghianum Benth. It is certainly ident- 

 ical with the Philippine form described by Blanco as Ammi 

 glaucifolium (non Linn.) Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 21S=Daucus 

 anisodorus Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 150, for which he cites 

 the native name lamudio. Rumphius took his data regarding 

 Amudium from Nieremberg's description of the Philippine 

 plant. 



Of uncertain status, other than that it is an umbelliferous 

 plant, is Mussi Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 271. It may be Carum 

 carvi Linn., but the description is too indefinite to be at all 

 certain. Mussi is given by Rumphius as the Javanese name. 



CRITHMUM Linnaeus 



CRITHMUM MARITIMUM Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 246. 



Crithamus verus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 166, t. 72, f. 2. 



The plant discussed is the European Crithmum maritimum 

 Linn., and it was apparently figured from European specimens. 



MYRSINACEAE 



MAESA Forskal 



MAESA TETRANDRA (Roxb.) A. DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 82. 



Baeobotrys tetrandra Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2 (1824) 233. 



Maesa amboinensis Scheff. Comm. Myrsin. Archip. Ind. (1867) 29. 



Perlarius II Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 122, t. 57. 

 Amboina, Mahija, Koesoekoesoe sereh, Amahoesoe, and town of Amboina, 

 Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 2H, 242, 23 J>, July to October, 1913, in thickets 

 and light forests, sea level to an altitude of 300 meters, locally known as 

 kayo mani mani. 



Perlarius II Rumph. was reduced by Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 

 (1790) 124, fo Dartus perlarius Lour., the specific name being 

 taken from Rumphius. The plant actually described was from 

 Cochin-China and manifestly is not the same as the Amboina 

 one figured and described by Rumphius. In this erroneous 

 reduction Loureiro has been followed by Poiret, Roemer and 



