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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



fastuosa Linn. Dutra nigra Rum ph., on which Datura nigra 

 Hassk. was wholly based, is manifestly only a form of the com- 

 mon, white-flowered plant with colored branches. 



NICOTIAN A Linnaeus 



NICOTIAN A TABACUM Linn, Sp. PL (1753) 180. 

 Tabacus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 225. 

 Amboina, Hitoe lama, Robinson -PI. Rumph. Amb. 28U, October 8, 1913, 

 cultivated, locally known as tabak. 



Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 111, referred this to Nicotiana 

 fruticosa Linn., but the commonly cultivated Nicotiana tabacum 

 Linn, was undoubtedly the plant described by Rumphius and is 

 so considered by Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1857) 670. 



SCROPHULARIACEAE 



LIMNOPHILA* R. Brown 

 LIMNOPHILA AROMATICA (Lam.) comb. nov. 



Ambulia aromatica Lam. Encycl. 1 (1783) 128. 

 Gratiola aromatica Pers. Syn. 1 (1805) 14. 

 Limnophila punctata Blume Bijdr. (1826) 750. 

 Terebinthina Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 150, t. 67, f. 2. 



No Limnophila occurs in our Amboina collections, yet 

 Rumphius's figure and description are unmistakably the form 

 described by Blume as Limnophila punctata, but which manifestly 

 is a synonym of the much older Ambulia aromatica Lam. Am- 

 bulia aromatica Lam. was Henschel's reduction of the Rumphian 

 plant and figure, while Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 177, 

 thought that it might be either Limnophila punctata Blume or 

 L. conferta Benth. 



LIMNOPHILA RUGOSA (Roth) comb. nov. 



Herpestis rugosa Roth Nov. PI. Sp. (1821) 290. 

 Capraria gratissima Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 3 (1832) 92. 

 Stemodia menthastrum Benth. Scroph. Ind. (1835) 23. 

 Limnophila roxburghii G. Don Gen. Syst. 4 (1838) 543. 

 Menthastrum amboinicum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 151, t. 68, f. 1. 



The Rumphian figure is very characteristic and, unquestion- 

 ably, is referable to the present species. Henschel erred in refer- 

 ring it to Nepeta malabarica Linn.= Anisomeles. Hasskarl, 

 Neue Schlussel (1866) 177, considered that it was Limnophila 

 balsamea Benth. 



♦Retained name, Vienna Code; Ambulia Lam. (1783), Diceros Lour. 

 (1790), and Hydropiton Gaertn. (1805) are older. 



