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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



original description of Bidens chinensis, this being manifestly 

 the correct disposition of it. De Candolle, Prodr. 5 (1836) 596, 

 placed it with doubt under Bidens wallichii DC, which is a 

 synonym of B. chinensis Willd. ; while Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 

 (1857) 78, placed it under Bidens peduncularis Gaudich. The 

 form described by Miquel under this name is not Gaudichaud's 

 species, but is Bidens chinensis Willd. As noted above Bidens 

 chinensis Willd. has very generally been sunk in B. pilosa Linn., 

 but it is specifically distinct.* The Amboina material has been 

 determined as Bidens chinensis Willd. by Mr. E. E. Sherff, who 

 is making a critical study of the genus. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM Linnaeus 



CHRYSANTHEMUM INDICUM Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 889. 



Matricaria sinensis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 259, t. 91, f. 1 (incl. / 



alba, II lutea, III rubra). 



This widely distributed, cultivated plant is not represented 

 in our Amboina collections. The figure is an excellent represen- 

 tation of one of the commonly cultivated Malayan forms. It was 

 first reduced by Linnaeus, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 21, 

 Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 130, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1221, Sp. PL 

 ed. 2 (1763) 1253, and this reduction has been followed by all 

 subsequent authors. 



ARTEMISIA Linnaeus 



ARTEMISIA VULGARIS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 848. 



Artemisia latifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 261, t. 91, f. 2. 

 Artemisia latifolia rubra Rumph. 1. c. 261? 



There is no specimen of this widely distributed and well-known 

 species in our Amboina collections. The figure is an excel- 

 lent representation of Artemisia vulgaris. The reduction of the 

 Rumphian figure and description was first made by Burman 

 f., FL Ind. (1768) 177, in which he was followed by Loure- 

 iro, FL Cochinch. (1790) 491. Willdenow, Sp. PL 3 (1800) 

 1846, placed it under his Artemisia indica, which he considered 

 to represent a species distinct from the common European Arte- 

 misia vulgaris Linn. ; it is, however, a synonym of Artemisia 

 vulgaris Linn. Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 118, suggested 

 that Artemisia latifolia rubra Rumph. might be the same as 

 Artemisia grata Wall.=A. roxburghiana Bess.; the range of 

 the latter makes this suggested reduction an impossible one. It 



* See Schulz, O. E. Bidens chinensis (L.) Willd. und verwandte Arten. 

 Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 50 (1914) Suppl. 176-187. 



