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his specific name from Folium urens s. polot Rumph. Herb. Amb. 
3: 217, t. 141. The specimen described is clearly the species 
commonly known as Claoxylon indicum Hassk. The Rumphian 
reference must be excluded, as it represents Laportea amplissima 
(Blume) Miq. 
CLEIDION Blume 
CLEIDION SPICIFLORUM (Burm. f.) Merr. Interpret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 
322. 
Acalypha spiciflora Burm. f. FI. Ind. (1768) 203 (err. typ. 303), t. 61, 
f. 2. “Habitat in India utraque.” 
Cleidion javanicum Blume Bijdr. (1825) 613. 
The form figured and hence the type of Burman’s species is 
clearly the one commonly known as Cleidion javanicum Blume, 
with staminate inflorescences. The references to Plukenet, P. 
Browne, Rheede, Burman, and Rumphius must be excluded, 
as none of these pre-Linnean citations represents the form that 
Burman f. figured and described. 
ACALYPHA Linnaeus 
ACALYPHA HISPIDA Burm. f. FI. Ind. (1768) 203 (err. typ. 303), t. 61, 
f. 1. “Habitat in India.” 
Caturus spiciflorus Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 127, non Acalypha spiciflora 
Burm. f. 
Acalypha densiflora Blume Bijdr. (1826) 628. 
Acalypha sanderi N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. (1896) 2: 392. 
This is a species of wide distribution in the Indo-Malayan re- 
gion in cultivation, and is also cultivated for ornamental purposes 
in Europe and America. It was later described as Acalypha 
densiflora Blume, and as recently as 1896 as A. sanderi N. E. 
Br. The earlier Caturus spiciflorus Linn. Mant 1 (1767) 127 
is invalidated by Acalypha spiciflora Burm. f. 
RICINUS Linnaeus 
RICINUS COMMUNIS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1007. 
Ricinus speciosus Burm. f. FI. Ind. (1768) 207 (err. typ. 307), t. 66, 
f. 2. “Habitat in Java.” 
This is certainly a form of Ricinus communis Linn., with very 
narrow leaf-segments and unusually deep sinuses. 
ANACARDIACEAE 
RHUS Tournefort 
RHUS JAVANICA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 265. 
Schinus indica Burm. f. FI. Ind. (1768) 215 (err. typ. 315). “Hab- 
itat in India.” 
Rhus semialata Murr. in Comm. Gotting. 6 (1784) 27, t. 3. 
