500 



RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



refer it definitely to any species of Blumea, although it doubtless 

 represents some described species of this difficult genus. 



PLUCHEA Cassini 



PLUCHEA INDICA (Linn.) Less, in Linnaea 6 (1831) 150. 

 Baccharis indica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 861. 



Sonchus volubilis javanicus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 299, t. 10U, f- 1- 

 Amboina, near the town of Amboina, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. U22, 

 September 25, 1913, along borders of tidal swamps, locally known as 

 biluntas. 



The Rumphian species was correctly reduced to Baccharis in- 

 dica by Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 178; but Loureiro, Fl. 

 Cochinch. (1790) 495, erroneously referred it to Conyza pubigera 

 Linn., which is a species of Blumea (see p. 499). Lamarck, 

 Encycl. 2 (1768) 84, suggested that it might be the same as Cony- 

 za prolifera hsim.—Vernonia cinerea (Linn.) Less.; and, finally, 

 de Candolle, Prodr. 5 (1836) 320, placed it under Microglossa 

 volubilis DC. Pluchea indica (Linn.) Less, is certainly the 

 correct disposition of Sonchus volubilis javanicus Rumph. and 

 the figure cited above, but Sonchus volubilis Rumph. 1. c. 5 :299, 

 t. 103, f. 2, is Blumea chinensis DC. 



ECLIPTA * Linnaeus 



ECLIPTA ALBA (Linn.) Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. (1848) 528. 



Verbesina alba Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 902. 

 Ecliptica Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 43, t. 18, f. 1. 



Amboina, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. k23, July 29 and August 30, 1913, 

 near the town of Amboina, in sago swamps and in wet places, locally known 



as gandarussa utan. 



This was erroneously reduced by Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 

 184, to Verbesina biflora Linn. (= Wedelia biflora DC), in which 

 he was followed by Linnaeus, Mant. 2 (1771) 475, and by 

 Murray, Syst. Veg. (1774) 648. Other names involved are 

 Eclipta erecta Linn., E. prostrata Linn., and E. alba Hassk. var. 

 erecta Hassk., all of which are properly synonyms of Eclipta 

 alba (Linn.) Hassk. 



WEDELIA Jacquin 



WEDELIA BIFLORA (Linn.) DC. in Wight Contrib. (1834) 18. 

 Verbesina biflora Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) 1272. 



Verbesina aquatica Burm. Index Alt. Herb. Amb. (1769) [18] (type!). 

 Serurseum aquatile Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 423, t. 156, f. 1. 



* Retained name, Brussels Congress; Eupatoriophalacron Adans. (1763) 

 is older. 



