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COM M ELINA BENGHALENS1S Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 41. 
Commelina nervosa Burm. f. FI. Ind. (1768) 18, t. 7, f. 3. “Habitat 
Coromandeli.” 
C. B. Clarke was certainly correct in placing Burman’s species 
as a synonym of Commelina benghalensis Linn., a very common 
plant in the Indo-Malayan region. 
ANEILEMA R. Brown 
ANEILEMA MALABARICUM (Linn.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 
(1912) Bot. 232. 
Tradescantia malabarica Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 412. 
Commelina nudiflora Linn. Mant. 2 (1771) 177, non Linn. 1753. 
Commelina nudicaulis Bux’m. f. FI. Ind. (1768) 17, t. 18, f. 1 . “Java.” 
Aneilema nudiflorum R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 271. 
The figure and description clearly indicate that Burman’s 
species is identical with the very common Indo-Malayan form 
currently known as Aneilema nudiflorum R. Br. 
PONTEDERIACEAE 
MONOCHORI A Presl 
MONOCHORI A VAGINALIS (Burm. f.) Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1827) 128. 
Pontederia vaginalis Burm. f. FI. Ind. (1768) 80. 
Burman’s species was based on pre-Linnean references to 
Rheede and to Plukenet. The same species was described un- 
der the same binomial three years later by Linnaeus Mant. 2 
(1771) 222. A common plant in the Indo-Malayan region. 
ZINGIBERACEAE 
LANGUAS Koenig 
( Alpinia auct., non Linnaeus) 
LANGUAS MALACCENSIS (Burm. f.) comb. nov. 
Maranta malaccensis Burm. f. Ff Ind. (1768) 2. “Habitat in 
Malacca.” 
Alpinia malaccensis Rose, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8 (1807) 330, non 
Roxb., nec K. Schum. 
Alpinia nobilis Ridl. in Journ. Str. Branch Roy. As. Soc. 32 (1899) 
169. 
Burman’s binomial typifies Alpinia malaccensis Rose., a species 
that has apparently been misinterpreted by modern authors; 
see Valeton in Merr. Interpret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 155. The 
type of the genus Alpinia, as described by Linnaeus, is Alpinia 
racemosa, of tropical America, which currently appears in 
