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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



COLEUS SCUTELLAROI DES (Linn.) Benth. in Wall. PL As. Rar. 2 



(1831) 16. 



Ocimum scutellaroides Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2 (1763) 834 (type!). 



Plectranthus scutellaroides Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 3 (1832) 21. 



Majana (alba et rubra) Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 291, t. 101. 

 Amboina, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 473, July 18, 1913, in wet places in 

 woods and along roadsides near the town of Amboina, locally known as 

 may ana, mariana, and johanna. 



Majana rubra Rumph. was originally and erroneously reduced 

 by Linnaeus to Ocimum frutescens Linn., in Stickman Herb. 

 Amb. (1754) 22, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 131, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 

 1105. Recognizing this error, however, Linnaeus, Sp. PI. ed. 2 

 (1763) 834, made the Rumphian description and figure the whole 

 basis of Ocimum scutellaroides Linn., which in turn is the basis 

 of Coleus scutellaroides Benth. Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 129, 

 erroneously referred it to Ocimum gratissimum Linn. 



COLEUS BLUM El Benth. Lab. Gen. Sp. (1832) 56. 



Majana aurea Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 296, t. 102, /. 3. 



The form described and figured is one of the common cul- 

 tivated types of Coleus with variegated leaves, commonly known 

 as Coleus blumei Benth. Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 130, placed 

 it under Ocimum scutellaroides Linn.=C oleus scutellaroides 

 Benth., from which, however, it appears to be sufficiently distinct. 

 Miquel thought that this cultivated form was merely a variety 

 of Coleus scutellaroides Benth. and considered it as Coleus 

 scutellaroides Benth. var. blumei Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1759) 950. 



COLEUS sp.? 



Marrubium album semisilvestre Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 294. 



This form was briefly described by Rumphius, who compared 

 it with Marrubium album amb oinense=C oleus amboinicus Lour. 

 It may represent a species of Coleus, as suggested by Hasskarl, 

 but its exact status is indeterminable from data now available. 



OCIMUM Linnaeus 



OCIMUM BASILICUM Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 597. 



Basilicum indicum hortense Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 263 t. 92, f. 1. 



Rumphius's figure is a fairly good representation of Ocimum 

 basilicum Linn. The reduction to this species seems first to 

 have been made by Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 129, in which he 

 was followed by Lamarck and by Loureiro. Henschel placed 

 it under Ocimum sanctum Linn., while Hasskarl placed it under 

 Ocimum basilicum Linn. var. pilosum Benth. Hasskarl, Neue 



