Canna, | OXLIX. SCITAMINEZ, (J. G. Baker.) 261 
Rootstock tuberous, with many fibres. Stem 3-4 ft. Leaves oblong, acute, 
bwer 1 ft. or more. Bracts 3 in., ovate, green. Sepals small, lanceolate. Corolla- 
tube 3 in; lobes 1 in., lanceolate, greenish. Outer staminal segments 3, bright 
tel, oblanceolate, li in. by 4—4 in.; lip rather shorter; anther 1 in. Capsule 
A3 in, Seeds black, the size of a pea. 
„Var. PLAVA, Rose. Scit. Pl. t. 13 ; stature of the type, staminal segments plain 
bright yellow, C, flavescens, Link; Horan. Prodr. 41. 
Var. C. NEPALENSIS, Wall. Cat. 6622 (sp.); stem much taller, leaves larger, 
torolla-segments 1} in., outer staminal segments usually 3 bright red not emarginate, 
D above 1 in. Bouché in Linnea, vii. 158; Horan. Prodr. 15.—Nepal, 
Var. C. SPECIOSA, Rosc. Scit. Pl. t. 17 (sp.); much taller than the type, 
es larger, outer staminal segments 2 acute bright red with a channelled 
Ile claw, lip variegated with red and yellow. Herb. in Bot. Mag. t. 2317; 
Vall. in Bot, Reg. t. 1276; Horan. Prodr. 16.—Nepal and Kumaon, 
Another Indian form, unknown to me, is C. exigua, Bouché; Horan. Prodr. 
e American form to which Roscoe and Horaninow restrict the name 
MICA is figured Rose, Scit. Pl. t, 1; Bot. Reg. t. 776. 
23. MUSA, Linn. 
Stem subarborescent, of convolute leaf sheaths. Leaves very large, 
ong. ers in an erect or decurved spike, subuuisexual, lower female, 
Upper male; bracts large, spathaceous ovate or orbicular.. Calyx slit 
"2 one side to the base, 3-5-lobed. Corolla as long as the calyx or 
ria "rippeó round the stamens and style. Perfect stamens 5, sixth 
Ora entary or 0; filaments stout, filiform; anthers linear, erect, 2-celled. 
be 3-celled; ovules many, superposed; style filiform from a thickened 
55 Stigm: subglohose 6-lobed. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, oblong or 
"engen trigonous. Seeds subglobose or angled by pressure.—Species 
; tropics of the Old World. 
* Not stoloni . l ; 
Herous, d ter fl . Bracts many-fid. Frui 
“pulpy and edible. ying after flowering y 
aX. Superba, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 19; Corom. Pl. t. 223 ; PL 
large ek stem short stout ovoid, leaves sessile on the sheath, racts 
Nu icular many-fld. dull red, calyx 3-cleft, petal shorter than n 
Cat, 5 Ge with a large mucro, fruit oblong subcoriaceous. Wall. 
ibs ; Wight Ic. &. 2017; Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 3849-3850 ; Dalz. & 
1, ms. Fl. 272; Horan. Prodr. Al. M. textilis, Grah. Cat. Pl. Bomb, 
Non Née, 
vm Guars. 
lavas "le plant 10-12 ft. Stem covered with the persistent sheaths of the 
ya foot 8-10 ft, narrowed to the base. Spike drooping ; lower bracts 
t Sot long and broad; upper crowded, persistent; flowers biseriate, 20-30 
| in, a bract, Calyx 1-1} in.; lobes three, linear, loosely cohering. Corolla 
lie, "ruit trigonous, 3 by 11 in. Seeds 3-3 in. diam. smooth, brown, sub- 
2 2 409. 
tem T nepalensis, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. & Carey, u. 492; 
SA a Stout ovoid, leaves sessile on the sheath, bracts large ovate 
Gorter th ull purple, calyx 3-cleft, petal obcordate with a large dero 
» an the calyx, fruit oblong subcoriaceous. Horan, Prodr. 41. 
"Wat Nera L, Wallich. 
