( 1817 ) 



PoUANTIIES TUBEROSA. COMMON TUBEROSE. 



Class and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. infundibuliformi.s incurva., aequalis. Filamenta co- 

 rollas fauci insert*. Germ, in fundo corolla?. 



Specific Name and Synonyms. 



Polianthes* tuberosa. Sp. PL 453. Reich. 2. p. 76. Willd. 



2. p. 164. llort. Cliff. 121. Kniph. Cent. 11. ft. 76. 



Knorr Belie. 1. t. T. 12. Lour. Cochinch. 1. p. 204. 



Flora Peruv. 3. 66. Salisbury in Trans, llort. Soc. 1. 



p. 41. t. 2. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 281. Mart. Mill. 



Diet. Redoute Liliac. 147. Bot. Re gist. 63. 

 Hyacinthus indicus tuberosus, llore Narcissi. Bauh. Pin. 



47. Rudb.Elys.2.39.f.4. 

 Hyacinthus major indicus tuberosa radice. Stcert. Florilcg. 



t. 14. f. 1. optima. Vallet Jard. d'llcnr. IV. Park. 



Parad.Ul. Raj. Hist. 1164. Theatr. Flora t. 23. 

 Hyacinthus indicus serotinus flore ainplo odoratissiino. Moris 



Hist. 2. p. 376. § 4. t. 12. fig. ult.^ 

 Amica nocturna. Rumph. Amboyri. 5. p. 285. t. 98. 

 Ozimochitl seu flore osseo. Hernandez Mexic. 277. 

 (0.) Hyacinthus indicus tuberosa radice. Clus. Hist I, 



p. 176. minor. Park. Farad. 111. Raj. Hist. 1164. 



Ger. Emac. 115./ 16. 



JltXn; a city, and ai£o? a flower. Flos urbanus. As this etymology is 

 generally allowed, spelling the word with a Y, Poi.yanthes, as Ens been 

 sometimes done, is evidently erroneous. This spelling occurs in the llortus 

 * liffortiamis, but through inadvertence, as it was corrected by LiNN-i't s 

 himself in the Species Plantarum ; where, as in all his other works, it is spelt 

 Polianthes. Through similar inadvertence, the wrong spelling occurs in 

 the last edition of Aiton's Hortus Kewemis, though it was right in the first. 



Hyacinthus 



