328 . OXXXIV. SCITAMINEE (BAKER). [Canna. 
1-celled, adnate to one side of a petaloid lobe. Ovary 3-celled; ovules 
many in a cell; style adnate at the base to the staminal tube, linear, 
flattened ; stigmatose at the apex ; stylodia often also present. Capsule 
globose, densely echinate, indehiscent. Seeds subglobose; testa finally 
crustaceous ; embryo straight, in the centre of the hard albumen.—Tall 
herbs, with leafy stems. Leaves broad, oblong. Flowers in terminal 
racemes; bracts membranous. Outer staminodia 2-3, oblong-spathu- 
late, petaloid, usually bright red or yellow, often spotted. 
Species 20-30, all but two natives of Tropical and Subtemperate America. 
1. C. indica, Linn. subsp. C. orientalis, Rosc. Scit. t. 12. Stem 
glabrous, 4-6 ft. long. Leaves oblong, acute, green or tinged with 
brown, the lower 1 ft. long, 4-5 in. broad. Racemes lax, terminal on 
the leafy stem, simple or forked ; pedicels short; bracts small, ovate. 
Sepals oblong-lanceolate, green, }—4 in. long. Petals lanceolate, 1} in. 
long. Upper staminodia 3, oblanceolate, 2 in. long, bright red, dis- 
tinctly emarginate ; lip red-yellow, linear, distinctly emarginate. Fruit 
globose, 1 in. long. Seeds globose, black, smooth, 4 in. diam.—C. 
indica, Roxb. EL Ind. i. 1; Ridley in Journ. Bot. 1887, 134. C. 
Ehrenbergii, Bouché in Linnea, viii. 150 ; Horan. Prodr. 16. C. biden- 
tata, A. Bertol. Misc. xx. 9, t. 1. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger! Sierra Leone, Morson! Vogel! Ashanti, 
Cummins! Lower Niger: Abo, Barter, 198! 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Nyika country, near Mombasa, Wakefield! 
Lower Guinea. Annabon Island, Burton! Island of St. Thomas, Moller, 101! 
Lower Congo, Burton! Angola: Bembe, Monteiro! Golungo Alto; in reed-beds by 
the streams, and in damp woods, Welwitsch, 6448! Pungo Andongo; by streams 
within the fortifications, Welwitsch, 6448B8. 
South Central. Monbuttu: Munza, Schweinfurth, ser. iii. 203! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Valley of the Shire River, 
Meller ! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and Karonga, Whyte! 
Also Natal and Tropical Asia, The typical C. indica, Linn., Rose. Scit. i. 1, is a 
native of Tropical America. A plant sent from Angola by Mr. Monteiro, which 
flowered at Kew in 1896, was referred by Mr. N. E. Brown to C. speciosa, Rosc. Scit. 
t. 17, which is stated to have been introduced from Africa in 1819, and afterwards 
from Calcutta by Dr. Wallich, who found it growing wild in Nepal, 
13. MUSA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 655. 
Calyx tubular, 3-5-lobed, slit down one side. Petal one, entire or 
3-lobed, placed opposite the slit side of the calyx. Perfect stamens 5; 
sixth rudimentary ; filaments filiform ; anthers linear, 2-celled. Ovary 
3-celled; ovules many in a cell; style filiform; stigma terminal, 
6-toothed. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds globose or angled by 
pressure, often excavated at the hilum; albumen farinaceous ; testa 
intruded into the albumen at the apex and base; embryo straight.— 
Stems cylindrical or bottle-shaped, woody, formed by the union of the 
leaf-stalks. Bracts large and spathaceous. Flowers in terminal spicate 
panicles, unisexual, few or many to a bract, those of the lower bracts 
fertile, those of the upper bracts staminate. 
