250 ON THE COMMELYNA TUBEROSA OF LOUREIRO. 
1856, n. 1967, environs of Gia, 30-21 July, 1856, n. 1689; envi- 
rons of Leh, 1-15 September, 1856, n. 43; Leh to Nurla (right 
side of the Indus valley), 15 September to 5 October, 1856, n. 1595 ; 
Upshi to Leh (left side of the Indus valley), 11,249-11,532 feet, 
1-31 August, 1856, n. 1284; Leh, 11,532 feet, July to September, 
1856, n. 1360, 961, 1887, 1827; villages on the left side of the 
Indus valley, 1-25 September, 1856, n. 1794; Rumbak to Kanda 
La Pass (south-west of Leh), 1-7 September, 1850, n. 6322; pro- 
vince Gnari Khorsum, Pati, vid Lomorti to Poling, 5-15 September, 
1855, n. 7108; province Balti, A Thale La to Bagmaharal (north- 
east of Skardo and Shigar), 30 August, 1856, n. 5950.’ 
9. P. versicolor, Wahl.; De Cand. 1. c. p. 578.— Tibet, province 
Guari Khorsum, northern foot of the Uta Dhura Pass, across the 
Kiungar Pass to its northern foot, 16,200—17,600 feet, 9—12 July, 
1855, n. 7340. 
10. P. carnosa, Wall.; De Cand. 1. c. p. 580 ?—Western Himalaya, 
provinee Garhval, Gobeser to Okimath (from the Alaknanda to the 
Mandagui valley), 5000-6800 feet, 14—16 September, 1855, n. 8731. 
EXPLANATION OF PraTE LXXXII. Fig. 1, Branch of Ori ape grass 
A. Schmidt, ; 2, verticillastrum ; 3, calyx, and 4, flower of the same; 5, branch 
7 Nepeta Sabinei, A. Schmidt ; 6, Tower, <a 7, calyx of the same ; ' figs 1 Jat 
2 natural size ; figs. 2, 3, 4, 6, and magnified. 
ON THE COMMELYNA TUBEROSA OF LOUREIRO. 
By Henry F. Hance, Pn.D. 
Mr. Sampson gathered last year, in the neighbourhood of Canton, a 
very pretty Aneilema, which—as it is, there is scarcely a doubt, the 
Commelyna tuberosa of Loureiro, (a plant not now known apparently to 
botanists,) and belonging, moreover, to a group which is evidently in 
some confusion—it may be well to describe somewhat in detail. 
Aneilema Loureirii,* mihi: radicibus fasciculatis tuberoso-incras- 
satis, caule pubescente aphyllo v. unifoliato, foliis synanthiis lineari- 
lanceolatis ciliatis multinerviis 33-51 poll. longis 8—10 lin. latis caule 
. * I hare thought it aoed to reject Loureiro’s specifie name, because 
innsus's species is a true Commelyna, from — and moreover half-a- 
dozen others have been so ca led ; nor can I help believing Hamilton's musa 
homonymous plant to differ from the Chinese, as will be seen by my rem 
