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CANNA edulls. 



Esculent-rooted Indicm-shot of Peru. 



MONANDRIA MOXOGYXU. 



Nat. ord. C ANN^. Jitssieu got. G2 ; (ijiclusis SciTAMiNEis.) 



Canne.e. Brown prod. 307; (exdusu ^QiTXyil^VAS.) 

 CANNA. Svprd vol 3, fol 306. 



C eduliSy linibi interioris labio sunimo tripartite erecto, laciniis ovali-oblongis 

 retusis late unguiculatis, media pluriniuui breviore; labcllo liiieari-ob- 

 lon^o recurvato retiiso : cauls punicante. 

 Canna indica. liuiz et Pavo7iJtor. peruv. 1. 1; f)ton aliorum.J 



Radix hiberosa, ohlonga rohindarjuCy ocidata. Culnii plurcs, creed 

 geniculati teretes (b-G-pedalcs sangninco-ndjcittes/ Don in litt.) Folia «/- 

 teyiiUy ovata oblongaquCf utrinque attennata, glabra fpvkhr^ glancescenfia 

 J)oi\.) nttidiusculay Ihieis par alklis injlexis striata ; iener a ran volu to : peti- 

 i)\\s convolutis. Racenius ierminaUs simplex. Binders spath<eformes ; supe- 

 riores ovatce; inferiores longissima^, lanccolatce. Cal. lutcsccm rubencensqtfc. 

 Coy . coccinea : laciniis cxtcrioribus suhcequaUbus. Caps, scabra, echinala, 

 trigona, trisulca. Semina globosa nigra nifida. Ruiz et Paron loc. cit. 



This fine plant, we believe the only one of the species 

 that has appeared in our collections, was raised in the hot- 

 house at Boyton, in Wiltshire, by seed talvcn from samples 

 collected by the authors of the Flora Peruviana, as Mr. 

 Lambert informs us, nearly thirty years before it w?is 

 committed to the ground. Thiaseed had been collected 

 and sown at the same time with that of the Canna iridjjiora 

 of this work. It is by the unexpected success of this exp(;- 

 riment that our gardens have been enriched with two of 

 the finest species of the genus that are known in tlieni. 



We are informed by Mr. Don, the meritorious secretary 

 to the Linnean Society, that the stem of tlie plant at Boy- 

 ton is about the thickness of a man's finger, from five to 

 six feet high, and of a blood red colour; that the leaves are 

 broadly elliptic, of a beautiful bluish green with a purplish 

 edge, the root remarkably thick and fleshy, and composed 

 of oblong cylindrical tubers. 



There is no doubt that the sample collected by Don Jose 

 Pavon in Peru^ and now deposited in the Lambertian Her- 

 barium, belongs to this species, and not to Canna Lamhcrti; 

 (see the note under that title in the Appendix to the present 



volume.) 



