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CANNA gigantea. 
Tall Indian Reed. 
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MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
- Nat. ord. CANNA. Jussieu gen. 62. Cannes. Brown prod. 307, in 
obs. III.; ubi à Sctramines distinguitur. 
CANNA. Anth. simplex, margini filamenti petalodis affixa. Stylus 
spathulatus adnatus tubo corolle: stig. lineare. Caps. 3-loc., 8-valv.: sem. 
plura. Гол. in asiat. research. 11. 322; (Calcutta edit.). 
Rad. tuberosa, repens. Caulis herbaceus petiolis vaginantibus tectus. Fol. 
alterna vaginantia, juniora convoluta, è nervo medio simplici emittentia 
utrinque nervos parallelos. Flores laz? spicatiterminales. Juss. 
C. gigantea, limbo interiore semicirculari-4-radiato reflexo-patente, lacinia 
ima dextrorsüm obliquata insequilobo-retusa; filamento longé ultra 
antheram producto recurvatoque. 
Canna gigantea. Redouté liliac. 981. 
Canna patens. Rosc. in trans. linn. soc. 8. 338? judicantes ет nuperiüs 
dictis ab eodem in vol. 10. p. 272 operis citati; at cert? non Canna in- 
dica 3. patens, edit. prioris Hort. Kew., C. patentis jure archetypum ; 
cujus specimen extat in Herb. Banks. . 
Rhizoma tuberoso-carnosum, bulbiceps, stoloniferum, Caules 9-4-pedales. 
Vagine radicales et petioli vaginosi cuticulä arachnoideá deciduá alba obducti. 
Fob majora laminá тойд 2-pedali, elliptico-v. ovato-lanceolatá, cuspidatá. 
Racemus spicatus, multiflorus, distans, floribus sepids geminis: pedunc. 
longiores germine, bracteä анай fused ad singulos. Germ. 3-gono-rotundum. 
Cal. semuncialis v. ultra, subcoloratus, farinosus, S-partitus, persistens, seg- 
mentis hinc distantioribus, 1 submajore. Cor. tubuloso-divisa, ultra tubum 
duplex, S-uncialis, miniato-coccinea, immaculata ; tubus communis brevis; 
limbus exterior sesquiuncialis, nitens, S-partitus, erecto-connivens regularis, 
laciniis linearibus lanceolatis striatulis involuto-concavis, миға anticá pro- 
Лой divisis > interior intensiüs coloratus, opacus, 4-partitus, 2 uncias cum 
dimidio altus, laciniis pro longitudine limbi exterioris imbricato-coherentibus 
nisi ай ventrem ubi 4%. hinc à prozimá sinistrá ad tubum communem sgue 
soluta est, omnibus in labium supernum obliquantibus, 8 similibus subægualibus 
Janceolato-spathulatis, 4%, inferiore subdifformi saturatins colorata, non ut 
plerümque oppositá filamento neve latere dextro longiüs à prosimá divisá ac 
‘alice invicóm inter se. Vil. adnatum limbo interiori sub labio ad ejusdem 
divisuras usque, latius laciniis, antrorsúm inclinatum, ligulato-lanceolatum, 
obtusum. Stylus aurantiacus lineari-spathulatus à plano adnatus faciei lateris 
„sinistri filamenti, lucidus, crassiusculus, de paulo infra antheram solutus, mar- 
gine sinistro rectiore : stigma apex continuus luteus glandulosus puberulus sub- 
truncatus subaqualis anthere. 
lt has been the lot of several species of this genus to 
have been ranged in the various systems of vegetables, by 
‚characters too vague or too scanty to ensure them from 
obscurity and uncertainty. Ву a passage in the observations 
VOL. ИТ, d . K . 
