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CoMMELINA TUBEROSA. TUBEROUS 
COMMELINA. 
BERT REE EEE RE EERE EE 
Generic Charaéter.—Vide No. 1431. 
Specific Charatter and Synonyms, 
COMMELINA tuberofa ; (flores involucrati ;) radice tuberofo- 
fafciculata; caule ramofo, futura villofa ftriato; foliis 
oblongo v, ovato-lanceolatis, glabris, margine fubciliato- 
fcabris, vagina petiolari tomentofo-ciliatis, junioribus fu- 
premis involucroque fabtus pubefcentibus; racemis al- 
ternis, inclufis, paucifloris; pedunculis pubefcentibus ; 
rachide pedicellifque glabris; corolle laciniis aqualibus, 
ovato-rotundis. G. : 
COMMELINA itzberofa. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1. 61. Willich. 
Milufir. n. 18.. Mill. Did. ed. 8. n. 4. Hort. Kew. 1. 76. ed. 
2. 1.124. Gerin. Sem. et Fr.1. 49. 1.15. Schmidel. Ic, 
192. tab. 49. Bot. Rep. tab. 399. Lil. a Redoute. tab. 108, 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 251. Enum. 69. Vabl Enum, 2. 171. 
~ COMMELINA celeftis. Willd. Enum. 69. 
COMMELINA radice anacampferotis. Dzllen, Hort. Eltb. 94. 
tab, 70. fig. 90. 
Wi ttpENow, in the laft of his works above quoted, records 
the prefent plant under the name of ce/effis, and has befides a 
fpecies in the fame as ‘uberofa. But, as our plant is undoubtedly 
his celeflis, and, as far as we can make out, the fuera of 
others ; and fince he has given no mark fufficient to diftinguith 
them by, we fufpe& that this was the only one feen by bim; 
and that being unable to fatisfy himfelf of its identity with 
_ tuberofa, he has (as we fo often fee is done, to the injury of this 
{cience) recorded two fpecies inftead of one. We doubt whether 
the C. fofciculata of the Flora Peruviana is really diftintt from 
this: it has the fame root. Our drawing was made from 
a feedling fpecimen that flowered in its firft year at Mr. 
Vere’s. The feed had been received from a botanic garden in 
the North of Germany. A native of Mexico; requires to be 
kept in the ftove. Perennial, Cultivated in 1732 by Dr, 
SHERRARD at Eltham, G, es 
