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-CÁNNA* speciósa. 
Shewy Canna. 
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MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
CANNA.— Suprà, vol. 7. fol. 576. 
C. speciosa ; paniculá amplà ramosà undique furfuraceo-pruinosà, bracteis 
laxis ventricosis subtruncatis, corollá 6-partità infundibuliformi bilabiatà, 
laciniis labii superioris subfornicatis retusis: inferiore recurvatà emar- 
ginatá, rachibus triquetris.— Wallich MSS. 
Canna speciosa, Roscoe scit. Herbert in bot. mag. v. 49. t. 2317. Spreng. 
cure post. p. 5. = 
Planta speciosa, 4-6-pedalis, quin ultrà, caule hasi crasso, superne in ramos 
plures simplices patulos paniculatim ramosa. Folia lato-ovata, vel ovato- 
lanceolata, in acumen breve gracile attenuata, membranaceo-marginulata, 
parüm undulata, basi rotundata, subamplexicaulia, inferiora pedala bipe- 
dalia. Vagine superiores spathacee, ramorum bases laxé amplexantes, sepe 
terminate laminá parvá foliaced. Panicula ampla, elevata, omnibus partibus 
obtectis purpuraceo-pruinosis. Racemi multiflori, magni, ovat, rachibus 
acuté trigonis, coloratis, param flexuosis. Flores geminatt, coccinet, fundo 
maculato-lutei, suffulti bracteis tribus membranaceis, calyce ovarioque valdé 
Surfuraceis, rufescentibus, subdiaphanis ; exteriore ferè pollicari, basin fas- 
ciculi laxé involvente, rotundato-ovatá, ventricosá, obtusissimá, subtruncatá $ 
interioribus ovatis, istá multò minoribus. Calyx rufescens ; lacinie sub- 
equales, lanceolate, acute, semiunciales. Corolla ferè 3-pollicaris, infundi- 
buliformis, extús parùm furfuracea. Tubus brevis, pallidus, flavescens. 
Limbus patulus; lacinie exteriores lanceolate, acuminate, totá corollá tertiò 
breviores; una reliquis paullò minor; lacinie interiores due, superiores 
erecto-conniventes, concaviuscule, subfornicate, lanceolate, retuse, nunc 
distinctiùs bidentate, deorsùm attenuate in unguem canaliculatum ; yo 
labium inferius corolle efficiens, linearis, retusa, decurvato-porr ror ji 
discum uti filamentum flavo lineata. Filamentum labio inferior: $ vs > 
sed paullò brevius, et contrariá directione, i. e. sursùm recurvum, obliqu 
acutum. Stylus saturatiùs coloratus, lucidus, terminatus stigmate carnoso, 
transverso, lineari. Capsula magna, densissimè echinata, aculeis conicis 
mollibus, obtusè trigona. Semina magna, atra.—Wallich MSS. 
* This is a Greek word, of unknown origin, unless we adopt De Théis” 
opinion, that it has proceeded from the Celtic cana, a reed, or rather p 
grass. We read somewhere in Ossian, that *' her neck is white as the 
down of Cana." 
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