delicate glaucous hue, while the large blossoms are varied 
with red or yellow. Notwithstanding its superiority in 
point of beauty over the Canna glauca 8, figured at t.2302 
of this work, I dare not venture to consider it other than a 
variety. It flowers in the stove in the month of August. 
Descr. Stems four to five feet in height. Leaves of a 
singularly light and glaucous hue, the lower ones very long 
and lanceolate, much attenuated at the base, the upper ones 
dually shorter and broader, elliptical-lanceolate, all of 
them sharply acuminated, and having a slender, scariose, 
reddish-brown margin. Flowers in a lax, compound spike. 
Calyx of three, convolute, erect leaves. Corolla with the 
upper lip in three deep, spathulate, ascending divisions, of 
a yellow colour, reddish below: lower lip of one revolute, 
linear, reddish-yellow segment. Filament of the same 
colour, petaloid, the apex recurved. Style much compress- 
ed, yellow below, red at the extremity. 
Fig: 1. Flower, from which the upper Lip is removed :—magnified. 
