monopetalous, tubular, divided, more or less deeply, into 

 six lacinice, three exterior generally erect, nearly equal, 

 acute, and, being frequently more or less green, resemble 

 a calyx ; three interior larger, often differing in size, form, 

 and position ; now straight, now recurved, and one some- 

 times nearly, or perhaps entirely obliterated ; though some 

 traces of it may mostly be detected by careful observation. 

 Besides these six laciniae there are three other petal-like 

 appendages, smaller and narrower, one of which is the 

 style, more rigid and fleshy than the others, but frequently 

 equalling, sometimes exceeding, the others in length ; the 

 other two stand opposed to each other; the upper one, 

 which bears the exhausted anther on its margin, is deno- 

 minated filament, the lower one generally re volute, and 

 often of a different colour, the labellum; these two form 

 the nectarium of Linnaeus, who consequently describes the 

 anther as inserted in the margin of the nectarium without 

 filament. But the filament and style are so changed at the 

 time of the expansion of the flower, that their real nature 

 cannot be understood without examining them at a much 

 earlier stage, as explained at No. 2085. 



The Corolla of our variety of Canna glauca has its limb 

 divided into three exterior lacinice, erect, lanceolate, acute ; 

 and three interior, ovate, nearly equal, all erect; a petal-like 

 filament, bearing the effete anther at the lower part of its 

 margin, and becoming revolute above ; opposed to this the 

 labellum, narrow, variegated, quite entire ; style rigid, be- 

 coming much elongated and undulate. 



It is doubtful whether our plant ought not rather to be 

 considered as a distinct species than a variety ; it differs 

 from the glauca of Exotic Botany, not only in the colour 

 of the flower, which in that is a plain yellow without 

 intermixture, but in the upright internal laciniae being 

 narrower, more pointed, and sometimes a little notched ; 

 in the labellum being, in our individual at least, quite 

 entire, not emarginate at the extremity. 



Native of South America; Mr. Anderson has received 

 it from the Caraccas and from St. Vincent's. The figure 

 referred to in the Hortus Kewensis, as authority for its 

 having been cultivated by Dr. Sherard, belongs to Canna 

 flaccida. 



Communicated last October by our friend John Walker, 

 Esq. of Arno's Grove, Southgate, who raised it from seed 

 several years ago. 



