> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 530](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120661) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12386-1) LSID 12386-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1047867) QID Q1047867 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Commelijn \[Commelin\], Caspar\[us\] (1667/1668-1731), Netherlands physician, botanist and professor at the Amsterdam Athenaeum, nephew of Jan Commelin. **Abbreviated name**: *C. Commelijn* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.Commelijn*\] #### Herbarium and types No herbarium material known with any certainty. Clokie mentions, with some hesitation, the possibility of some Commelin material being at [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. *Ref*.: Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 148. 1964. #### Bibliography and biography Aa 3: 649; AG 2(2): 408; Barnhart 1: 370; BM 1: 370, 6: 222; Jackson p. 534 \[index\]; JW 2: 188, 3: 348, 4: 382, 5: 237; Kew 1: 594-595; Langman p. 213; MW p. 83; NI 387-388; NNBW 10: 196; Plesch p. 180-181; PR 1834-1837. J., Biogr. méd. 3: 308-309. 1821. - Hunger, Ned. kruidk. Arch. 34: 187-202. 1924 (bibl., iconogr., portr.). - Karsten, The old Company's Garden at the Cape 179 \[index\]. 1951. #### Eponymy *Commelina* Linnaeus (1753, also dedicated to his uncle Jan Commelijn (1629-1692), q.v. ### Publications ##### n.1184. Flora malabarica **Title** *Flora malabarica* sive horti malabarici catalogus exhibens omnium ejusdem plantarum nomina, quae e variis, tum veteribus tum recentioribus botanicis collegit, & in ordinem alphabeticum digessit. Leiden (Fredericus Haaringh) 1696. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. malab.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1696, p. \[i-xvi\], 1-284, \[1, corr.\] *Copy*: U. *Ref*.: BM 1: 370; Jackson p. 388; Kew 1: 594. ##### n.1185. Praeludia botanica **Title** *Praeludia botanica* ad Publicas plantarum exoticarum demonstrationes, dicta in horto medico, cum demonstrationes exoticarum 3 Octobris 1701, & 29 Maji 1702. ex auctoritate nobilissimorum & amplissimorum D. Consulum auspicaretur. His accedunt plantarum rariorum & exoticarum, in praeludiis botanicis recensitarum, icones & descriptiones. Leiden (Fredericus Haringh) 1703. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Praeludia bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1703, p. \[i-viii\], 1-85, \[86-87 err., instr. bind.\], *pl. 1-33. Coplies*: BR, MICH, MO, NY. – Important because of the first description of a number of South African plants. For an extensive bibliographical description see HU 405; Wijnands (1973) provides an example of the importance of the book for the typlfication of South African taxa. – "The latter portion of this work was reprinted in the Appendix to vol. 3 of Ray's *Historia plantarum*" (BM). – Huth, *Clavis*, cites figs. 1-33 of the *Praeludia* for the *Pl. rariores* and v.v. *Re-issue*: Leiden (Joh. du Vivie) 1715. Qu., p. \[i-viii\], 1-85, pl. *1-33. Copy*: HU. *Ref*.: BM 1: 730; DU 80; GF p. 54; HU 405 (coloured pl.); Jackson p. 30; Kew 1: 594; Langman p. 213; NI 388; Plesch p. 181; PR 1836; SA 2: 552. - Huth, Clavis commeliniana, Berlin 1894. - Tyrrell-Glynn and Levyns, Flora africana 18. 1963. - Wijnands, Taxon 22: 109-114. 1973. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Bot. 1: 128-129. 1975. ##### n.1186. Horti medici Amstelaedamensis plantae rariores et exoticae **Title** *Horti medici Amstelaedamensis plantae rariores et exoticae* ad vivum aeri incisae. Leiden (Fredericus Haringh) 1706. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Hort. med. Amstel. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1706, p. \[i\]-viii, *1-48, figs. 1-48*, (uncoloured copper engr. by P. Sluyter). *Copies*: BR, NY (2 Copies), U. – *Reissue*: Leiden 1715 (fide PR, 'non differt'). *Ref*.: BM 1: 370; Jackson p. 439; Kew 1: 594; Langman p. 213, MW p. 83; NI 387; Plesch p. 181; PR 1837; SA 2: 552. - Huth, Clavis commeliniana, Berlin 1894. - Tyrrell-Glynn and Levyns, Flora africana 18. 1963. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 1: 130-131. 1975.