could be of no further ufe. At every joint of the peduncle is a 
purplifh-coloured concave braéte, which drops off before the 
flower is fully opened. 
This elegant aquatic is generally confidered as a ftove plant, 
and may probably require that affiftance to bring it into blof- 
fom; but, being a native of the {wamps of South-Carolina, we 
prefume it would be better to preferve it in the greenhoufe 
through the winter, and remove it into the bark-ftove at its 
feafon of flowering. - 
Juss1eu includes Tuatra in the natural order of Scitaminee, 
which he calls Cazes but Mr. Ropert Brown has feparated 
a {mall portion of thefe plants into a diftiné& order, under the 
name of Caunee ; retaining that of Scitaminee for the reft. The 
Cannee of Brown, confift of the following genera; Canna, 
Maranta, Thalia, Phrynium, and perhaps Myrofma; and are 
diftinguifhed from the true Scitaminee, by their fimple anther, 
by the defeét of a vifellum in the feed, and by their poffeffing 
no aroma at all, or at moft a very weak one. 
Flowers in July and Auguft. Our figure was taken from a 
plant communicated by Mr, Knicur, of the Exotic Nurfery. 
