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Miquel for his diagnosis of FIueggea? serrata Miq. Miquel’s 
diagnosis of this species, which is published in his Flora Ind. Bat. 
I. 2. (1859) p. 356, is not quite sufficient for clear recognition. 
A closer examination of this authentic specimen showed that Miquel 
had very properly queried the generic name Flueggia, for my 
examination gave the surprising result, that the species was not only 
incorrectly placed by Miquel in this Euphorbiaceous genus, but that 
the specimen does not even belong to the order Euphorbiaceae, 
but to the order Celastraceae, and not to a new species, but 
to a species of the genus Celastrus Linn., namely to Celastrus 
panic u lata Willd. (Spec. PI. I. p. 1125). This species has 
already been described under many names, is very variable and 
widely distributed and consists of a number of elementary species. 
According to the original label, this herbariumspecimen Utrecht 
was collected by Junghuhn in the alpine regions of Central Java; 
it is merely a particularly small-leaved specimen of a species of 
Celastrus, the small size of the leaves being presumably due 
to unfavourable alpine oecological conditions. The shrub occurs in 
various parts of Java, up to an altitude of 2000 m. and generally 
does not climb high. 
In the Kew Herbarium and also in ’s-Rijks Herbarium at Leiden 
I have been able to compare the authentic specimen, of the Utrecht 
Herbarium, referred to above, (Flueggea? serrata Miq.) with 
very numerous specimens of Celastrus paniculata Willd. 
from widely different localities, and in so doing I have also found 
a few small-leaved specimens of this species of Celastrus which 
closely agree with it. 
The synonymy of the species thus becomes as follows: 
Celastrus paniculata, Willd. (sensu latiore) Spec. PI. I. 1125; 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I. 2. (1859) p. 590; Hook. FI. Br. India I. (1875) 
617; C. alni folia, Don. Rodr. 190;. C. dependens, 
Wall. Catal. (1825) n. 4302; C. multi flora, Roxb. FI. Ind. 
I. 622; C. nutans, Roxb. FI. Ind. I. 623; C. Rothiana, 
Roem. & Schult. Syst, V. 423; C. M e t z i a n a, Turcz. in 
Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. (1858) 447; Ceanothus paniculatus, 
Roth. Nov. Spec. 154; Scutia paniculata, Don. Gen. 
Syst. II. 34; Flueggia serrata, Miq. ! msc. in Miq. Plant. 
Jungh. ined. msc.; Miq.! FI. Ind. Bat. I. 2. (1859) 356. 
I wish to express my thanks to the Directors of the Herbaria of 
Kew, Leiden, and Utrecht for the opportunity given me of examining 
the material in question. 
Leiden, Mei 25, 1909. 
