458 



RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



MENTHA Linnaeus 

 MENTHA ARVENSIS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 577. 



Mentha crispa Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 267, t. 93, f. 2. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 The form figured and described by Rumphius, however, of which 

 he never saw flowers or fruits, is the common mint introduced 

 into the orient by the early Portuguese and Spanish explorers, 

 and now widely, but not extensively, cultivated by the natives 

 and Europeans in the Philippines (here known as yerba buena) , 

 and probably in other parts of the Indo-Malayan region. By 

 Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 129, it was erroneously reduced to 

 Ocimum menthoides Linn. =Geniosporum prostratum Benth. 



POGOSTEMON Desfontaines 

 POGOSTEMON CABLIN (Blanco) Benth. in DC. Prodr. 12 (1848) 156; 

 Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 345. 

 Mentha cablin Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 473. 



Pogostemon patchouly Pellet, in Mem Soc. Sci. Orleans 5 (1845) 277 

 t. 7. 



Pogostemon suavis Ten. in Giorn. Bot. Ital. 2 (1847) 56. 

 Pogostemon patchouli Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 1 (1849) 328, t. 11. 

 Melissa lotoria Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 292, t. 102, f. 1. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 The figure is poor and presents only a leafy branch greatly 

 reduced in size. From the description, however, the plant is 

 unmistakably Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth., which is 

 widely cultivated in the Indo-Malayan region. Walpers, Repert. 

 3 (1845) 516, thought that it might be the same as Coleus 

 atropurpureus Benth., while Don reduced it to Coleus aromaticus 

 Benth. =C oleics amboinicus Lour., perhaps by confusion with the 

 latter species, which is figured on the same plate. It is mani- 

 festly no Coleus, but is certainly referable to Pogostemon cablin 

 Benth. 



DYSOPHYLLA Blume 

 DYSOPHYLLA AURICULARIA (Linn.) Blume Bijdr. (1826) 826. 



Mentha auricularia Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 81. 

 Mentha foetiola Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 126. 

 Majana foetida Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 41, t. 16, f. 2. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections. 

 The figure and the description unmistakably represent this 

 well-known species. The reduction was made by Linnaeus in 

 the original publication of Mentha auricularia Linn., and also by 

 Burman f . in the original publication of Mentha foetida Burm. f . 

 Henschel erroneously referred it to Cyclostegia strobilifera 

 Benth. 



