mate depreflb-aperto orbiculato ; capfula ovata ; valva 

 fuperna biloculari feminibus 2 — 4 macros caffis, inferna uni- 

 locular! femini obefo folo fenili tota adnata. G. 



COMMELINA africawa. Linn. S p. PL cd. 2. \. 60. Mill. 

 Ditl. id b. w. 3. Ihunb. Prod, Ft, cap. 58. Gar in. Sem, 1. 

 50. tab. 15. /. 1. Berg. cap. 9. Meerburgh It. 4. Hort. 

 Kew. 1. 70. ed. 2. 1. 123. Vahl Entim. 2. 167. Schmidel 

 1c. Plant. 113. to*. 30. /F//A£ ty. /7. \. 250. 



C. radice perenni ; foliis lanceolatis ; caule repentc glabro ; 

 petalis 2 majoribus. Wachcnd. Ultraj. 323. 



C. procumbens, flore luteo. Royen Lugdb. 538. I latter Hart. 

 Getting. 66. 

 Obs. Commelina africana Eedoutiri (Liliac. t. zoj.J alia arte 



/pedes. Dryander MiT. in Muf. Banks. 



A trailing fomewhat bufhy plant, feldom exceeding three 

 feet in height, but generally much fhorter ; the flowers at firft 

 glance refemble thole of fomc of the papilionaceous tribe, and 

 are of a tawny yellow colour. According to the elaborate 

 and accurate woik of Schmidel, fome of the flowers, Spe- 

 cially the one neareft the caudex, arc often male ; the middle 

 of the three more pet feet anthers larger and more copioufly 

 polliniferous than the rclt, and of a fagittatc form ; nor are the 

 three lefs perfect horizontally cruciate ones (fometimes-whim- 

 fically called neHaria) entirely deprived of pollen. A green- 

 houfe plant ; native of the Cape of Good Hope ; cultivated 

 m '759 ^y Miller ; blooms from May to October. Our 

 drawing was made from Mr. Vere's collection, a collection 

 which the liberality of its owner, zeal and intelligence of its 

 fuperintendant, render of great and general fervice to Botany. 0, 



NOTE. 

 No. 739. Sakskvur a ffJfiHflora. In our obfervationson 

 tbis vegetable, we have faid that " its fc^pe was cxtvafoliaccous 

 and arofe from its peculiar bud ;" in this we were miflcd by the 

 appearance of the plant when the running rootftock was buried 

 in the ground ; but upon that being laid bare, it is feen that 

 the fcape really rifes from the centre of each fafcicle of leaves; 

 and, being horizontally deprelled for a fhort fpace before it 

 afcends above ground, acquires the appearance it prefents in 

 our figure, and by which we were deceived, not having at that 

 time the opportunity of examining it out of the ground. It is 

 now become common, and found to be hardy enough to thrive in 

 the open border, where it foon forms large tufts. The following 

 fvnnnyms have appeared fince we pubiifhed our account of it- 

 Sansevikra. carnea. But. Repof. t. 361. Lil. a Redout** 

 t. 323. Hort. Ktw. ed.%. 2. 278. 



