468 RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



Herpestis amara Benth. Scroph. Ind. (1835) 30. 

 Serratula amara Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 459, t. 170, f. 1, 

 Amboina, Kati-kati, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 263, October 17, 1913, in 

 wet meadows and in cleared places near streams, altitude about 70 meters, 

 locally known as kakuran mera. 



Serratula amara was erroneously reduced by Linnaeus to 

 Scutellaria indica Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 24, 

 Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 133, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1763) 836, in which 

 he was followed by Burman f., Willdenow, Poiret, Persoon, and 

 Pritzel. Vahl, however, placed it under his Caranga amara, 

 Enum. 1 (1804) 100, given by all authors since Jussieu as Cu- 

 ranga amara Juss. Various authors have cited the figure under 

 the other synonyms given above. I can see no reason for not 

 accepting Loureiro's specific name, for Picria fel-terrae Lour, 

 is manifestly the same as Curanga amara Juss., and Loureiro's 

 specific name is at least fourteen years older than that proposed 

 by Vahl. It is also to be noted that the generic names Picria and 

 Caranga are both older than Curanga of Jussieu. 



LINDERNIA Allioni 



(Vandellia Linnaeus) 

 LINDERNIA CRUSTACEA (Linn.) F. Muell. Census (1882) 97. 

 Capraria Crustacea Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 87. 

 Vandellia Crustacea Benth. Scroph. Ind. (1835) 35. 

 Crusta ollae minor Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 461, t. 170, f. 3. 

 Amboina, Batoe mera, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 262, July 20, 1913, 

 in various habitats, altitude 5 to 15 meters. 



In Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 24, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 

 133, Linnaeus reduced "170 Crusta ollae" to his Ruellia antipoda, 

 overlooking the fact that two distinct species are described and 

 figured. Of these Crusta ollae major, t. 170, f. 2, is Ruellia anti- 

 poda JJnm.=Ilysanthes antipoda (Linn.) Merr. (see p. 467) ; 

 while Crusta ollae minor, t. 170, f. 3, is Capraria Crustacea Linn. 

 =Lindernia Crustacea (Linn.) F. Muell. Burman f., Fl. Ind. 

 (1768) 134, refers Crusta ollae minor, t. 170, f. 3, to Ruellia anti- 

 poda Linn., but also on the preceding page refers the same figure 

 to Capraria Crustacea Linn, where it properly belongs. Other 

 names concerned in the reduction of the Rumphian figure are 

 Gratiola lucida Willd., Torenia Crustacea Cham. & Schlecht., and 

 T. edentula Griff. The plant figured and described by Rumphius 

 is manifestly the common, well-known, and widely distributed 

 Lindemia (Vandellia) Crustacea (Linn.) F. Muell., which ap- 

 pears in most recent botanical literature as Vandellia Crustacea 

 Benth. 



