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POLIANTHES tuberosa. 

 Common Tuberose. 



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HEXANDRIA MONOGYXIA 



POLIAXTHES. Cal. 0, Cor. infera, infundibuliformis, tubo 

 crecto, limbo nutante Eequali, sexpartito, patulo. Starn. Fauci corolla* 

 inserta : anthera tilamentis longiores. Stylus filiformi-triqueter, inclu- 

 sus tubo : stig. 3, latninosa, obcordata. Caps, basi tccta calyco, 3-loc 

 3-valv. polysperma : sen* plana, gemino ordine disposita. Radix tube- 

 roso-bulbom, folia radicaiia longa, caulina squamiformia ; fores $picati> 

 seorsim aut geminaiim spathacei. Jussieu. gen. 56; (mutatis nonnullis). 



P. tuberosa. Lin. sp. pi. 1. 453. Ilort. Kew. 1. 457. ed. 2. 2. 281. 



Redoute /iliac. 147- Lour, cochinch. 1. 201. Ruiz fy Pavonf. per. 



3. f)6. Salisbury in trans, hort. soc. 1. 41. t. 2. JVilld. sp. pi. 2. 164. 

 Ilyacinthus indicus tuberosus fl. Narcissi. Rudb. efj/s. 2. S[).f. 4. — tf. 



Hyacinthi orientalis. id. eod.f. 2. 

 H. indicus major tuberosa radice. Park. par. t. 113. f. 1. — minor, id. 



eod.f. 2. 



II. indicus tuberosa radice. Clus. hist. 176. 



Arnica nocturna. Rumph. amb. 5. ( 285. t. 99- 



Omizochitl. Hern. mex. c lll ; cum icone. 



(P) flos plenus. Tuberosa. I. Trezc. FL Imag. t. 135. 



Radix rhizoma teres, crassum, tunicato-bidbiceps. Folia plurhna, radicalia, 

 multifariam ambientia x semi-sesquipedalia, infra unciam lata, lorato-lancco* 

 lata. Caulis 3-4 pedalis, teres, Joliosus, folds sensim decrescentibus, sparsis. 

 Bractea pari cut que forum communis duas alias unam singulo fori propriam 

 includens. Corolla 2-2^ uncias longa : limbus tubo verticals striato duplo 

 brevior, obtusus, subcequalis. Anth. virides, erectce, lineares, introrsum 

 versa?, polline luteo. Stylus tubo cequilo)igus 9 3-queter, glaber, albus, eras* 

 siusculus. Stigmata parum diver gentia. 



Clusius was in possession of this plant in 1594, and is, 

 we believe, the first writer who mentions it. The pre- 

 cise date of its appearance in Europe has, however, never 

 been fixed, and the country it is natural to, is still a ques- 

 tion. The Hor'tus Kewensis makes it indigenous of the 

 East Indies; Mr. R. A. Salisbury, who has devoted an ela- 

 borate treatise to the plant, of Mexico. As far as we have 

 Searched, the latter opinion alone seems to be supported by 

 any thing like direct evidence. No writer we have turned to 

 even hints at an authority for its having been found wild 

 in any part of the East Indies. The title of " indicus/' 



constantly joined to its specific phrase by the older botanists, 



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