A JOURNAL ON TAX0N0M1C BOTANY, PLANT SOCIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY REINWARDTIA Editors MIEN A. RIFAI KUSWATA KARTAWINATA N. WULIJARNI-S0ETJ1PT0 Published by HERBARIUM BGGORIENSE LEMBAGA BIOLOGI NASIONAL —. LIPI BOGOR, INDONESIA Reinwardtia Vol. 9, Part 4, 377 — 479 31 March 1980 10 ISSN 00-34 — S66X 3-94 P , E I N W A R D T I A [VOL. 9 3 Cm 9 Stamens and ovary 3 & 4. Lower and upper and its palea and 9. This species is similar to C. simpliciusctda (Wt. & Am.) Munro ex Benth., but panicles are more effuse with long-pedicelled spkelets and shorter pubescent glumes. WESTERN GHATS. Amboli hill station, 13 September 1971, Naik 1300a (holo- type and Naik ISOOb, c isotypes). I wish to express my grateful thanks to Dr. J.F. Veldkamp of Rijks- herbarium, Leiden, for valuable suggestions and latin d.agnosi, I am thankful to Prof. K.B. Deshpande of this Department, for facilities. R E I N W A R D T I A Published by Herbarium Bogoriense — LBN, Bogor Vol. 9, Part 4, pp. 39& — 401 (198-0) THE CORRECT NAME FOR THE ACER OF MALESIA THOMAS J. DELENDICK Herbarium, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York 10U58, V.S.A. *) ABSTRACT It is shown that the legitimate and proper name for the maple of Malesia is Acer laurinum Hasskarl. ABSTRAK Diperlihatkan bahwa nama yang sah dan tepat untuk ki kanada yang ada di Malesia adalah Acer laurinum Hasskarl. For quite some time the name to be used for the entire-leaved, ever- green species of Acer which occurs in Malesia was a matter for question, with A. javanicum Jungh., A. niveum BL, A. laurinum Hassk., A. curranii Merr., A. philippinum Merr., and A. cassiaefolium Bl. being applied by- several authors dealing with that flora. When populations in South- east Asia and Hainan are considered as belonging to the Malesian taxon, another six epithets come under consideration. In the Flora Malesiana, A. niveum is the name indicated by Bloembergen (1948), but this was corrected to A. laurinum by van Steenis (1954). Murray (1969) also concluded that the oldest legitimate name is A. laurinum, and de Jong (1976) (who also recognizes A. garrettii Craib and A. machilifolium Hu & Cheng for mainland populations) concurs. In 1965, in a publication apparently overlooked by the above mono- graphers, Kostermans pointed out that Laurus caesia Reinwardt ex Blume (1826) from Indonesia is in fact an Acer and, further, that it represents the same taxon hitherto known as A. laurinum! He therefore published the new combination Acer caesium, (Reinwardt ex Blume) Kostermans, and indicated that it was the earliest available name. To date, A. caesium (Reinwardt ex Blume) Kostermans is hardly known in the botanical literature, having been adopted only by Whitmore (1973) in his Tree Flora of Malaya. * Present address: Herbarium, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, lOO© Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11225, U.S.A. 396 R E I N W A R D T I A [VOL. 9 However, the binomial Acer caesium had earlier been used by Wallich in Brandi's The Forest Flora of North-West and Central India in 1874 for a Himalayan maple allied to A. pseudoplatanus L. In light of Article 55 of the I.C.B.N. (1972 Edition) and its accompanying examples, it becomes clear that A. caesium (Reinwardt ex Blume) Kostermans (1965) is to be regarded as a later homonym of A. caesium Wallich ex Brandis (1874), and, in accordance with Article 64, A. laurinum Hasskarl is the legitimate and proper name for the maple of Malesia. The following synonomy is adapted from van Steenis (1948) and Murray (1969), excluding consideration of the continental populations and the binomials based on them. ACER LAURINUM Hasskarl Acer laurinum Hasskarl apud Hoeven & de Vriese in T\jdschr. Natuurl. Gesch. Physiol. 10: 138. 1843. A. javanicum Junghuhn apud Hoeven & de Vriese in Tijdschr. Natuurl. Gesch. Physiol. 8: 391. 1841, [nomen nudum\; in Monatsber. Verh. Ges. Erdk. Berlin 3: 96. 1842; non A. javanicus Burmann, FI. Ind.: 221. 1768, which is not an Acer (cf. Bloembergen, 1948: 4). A. niveum Blumen in Jaarb. Kon. Ned. Maatsch. Aanm. Tuin.: 84 over the date 1844, but issued later than May 1845 (and reprints, issued later than Oct. 1844) in Eumphia 3: 193. 1847. A. cassiaefolium Blume in Rumphia 3: 193. 1847. A. philippinum Merrill in Philipp. Dept. Int. Bur. Govt. Lab., Bull. 35: 36. 19C6. A. curranii Merrill in Philipp. J. Sci. 4: 285. 1909. A. caesium (Reinwardt ex Blume) Kostermans in Reinwardtia 7: 141-142. 1965, based on Laurus caesia Reinwardt ex Blume, Bijdr. Fl. N. I.: 553. 1826; non A. caesium Wallich ex Brandis, Forest Flora of North-West and Central India: 111. 1874. I wish to thank Rupert Barneby, Arthur Cronquist and David Giannasi for their comments and suggestions; this work was accomplished with the support of an Herbarium Fellowship from The New York Bota- nical Garden. REFERENCES BLOEMBERGEN, S. (1948). Aceraceae. In VAN STEENIS, C.G.G.J., Flora Malesiana. Ser. 1, 4(1): 3 - 4 . BRANDIS, D. (1874). The Forest Flora of North-West and Central India. London. JONG, P.O. DE (1976). Flowering and sex expression in Acer L. A Biosystematic Study. In Meded. Landbouwhogeschool 7 6 - 2 : 1-201. KOSTERMANS, A.J.G.H. (1965). Miscellaneous botanical notes 4. In Reinwardtia 7: 141-146. : ' . MURRAY, E. (1969). Acer Notes. In Kalmia 1(1): 1-4. 1 9 8 0 ] DELENDICK: Acer laurinum 3 S 7 at. (Ed.), (1972). International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. ' c o r r i g e n d a e t WH I T MOK E , T.C. (1973). Tree Flora of Malaya, A Manual for Foresters Vol , Longman Group Limited, London. CONTENTS Page Hsu AN KENG. A new interpretation of the compound strobilar structures of cordaites and conifers , 377 SOEJATMI DRANSFIELD. Three new Malesian species of Gramineae 385 V. N. NAIK. Coelachne ghatica Naik, sp. nov 393 THOMAS J. DELENDICK. The correct name for the Acer of Malesia 395 M I E N A. R I F A I . The identity of UstUago amadelpha var. glabHus- cula 399 V. N. NAIK & B. W. PATUNKAR. Novelties in Panicum (Poaceae) from India . 403 N. P. BALAKRISHNAN. A new species of Ophiorrhiza (Rubiaceae) from Great Nicobar Island, India 411 RONALD H. PETERSEN. Type studies in the clavarioid fungi. V. The taxa described by Caspar van Overeem 415 A. W. SUBHEBAR & V. G. RAO. An undescribed species of Calothy- riop