osbeck's dagbok ofwer en ostindsk resa 
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This species has been reduced to Desmodium retroflexum (L.) DC, 
but Hedysarum styracifolium Osbeck is an older name than H. retro- 
flexum L., on which DeCandolle's species is based. The type was from 
Dane's Island, near Whampoa, October 25, 1751, and the original 
description is as follows: ''Hedysarum {styracifolium) foliis simplicibus 
cordato-orbiculatis, retusis, supra glabris." 
Fucus maximus Osbeck, Dagbok Ostind. Resa 283. iys7 = Ecklonia 
huccinalis (L.) Hornem. 
This was from latitude 33° 13' S. in the vicinity of Cape Colony, 
March 10. The original description, presented as a footnote under 
"Trumpet-grass," is as follows: Fucus (maximus) caule tereti, 
fistuloso, simplici, flabello quasi terminato. An Fucus pavonicus ? 
cfr. Trombas. G.M.A.V.V.L. Descriptio itin. navalis in ind. p. 51. 
fig. mala. Obs. Folia terminalia, adgregata, distica, inferiora gradatim 
minora. Caulis defoliatis." Osbeck's specific name antedates the 
Linnean Fucus huccinalis on which Ecklonia huccinalis is based, but 
no change is here made. 
Limnophila chinensis (Osbeck) comb. nov. 
Columnea ? chinensis Osbeck, Dagbok Ostind. Resa 230. 1751. 
Limnophila hirsuta Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 388. 1845. 
Stemodia hirsuta Heyne in Wall. Cat. No. 3930. 1831 (nomen), 
Benth. Scroph. Ind. 24. 1835. 
The specimens on which Columnea chinensis was based were col- 
lected September 27, 1751, on Dane's Island, near Whampoa, and 
like most of Osbeck's species it has been entirely overlooked by all 
botanists. The introductory statement, in Swedish, is translated as 
follows: Pange-ka, so-called by the Chinese, is an herb which is 
common along the river, growing mostly in the water along with 
preceding species [Cyperus]. It has a pleasant smell." It is with 
difficulty placed in any of the known genera as proved by the following 
description: Columnea ? chinensis: Perianthium duplex: inferius di- 
phyllum, minimum, foliolis subulatis; superius quinquepartitum, laciniis 
lineari-lanceolatis, tubo brevioribus. Corolla monopetala: Tubus 
cylindricus; Faux barbata; Limbus quinquelobus, Lobis ovatis; 
Lucisura inter 2 lobos unius lateris minus profunda, ad quam pisdllum 
& stamina sese vertunt & barba circumdantur. Filamenta 4 fili- 
formia, didynamiae, 2 & 2 adhaerentia; Antherae incumbentes, parvae. 
