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Canna lutea. Yellow Indian Reed. 



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Class and Order. 



MoNANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Anthera simplex filamcnti margini adnata. Stylus crassus, 

 claviformis. Stigma obtusum. Caps. 3-locularis. Scm. glo- 

 bosa, numerosa. 



SjKcific Character and Synonyms. 



Canna lutea ; corolhe limbo interiore bifido. Roscoe in Lin. 



Soc. transact. 8. p. 338. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. I. p. 2. 

 Canna indica, |3. lutea. Hort. Kew. ed. I ma - v. I. p. I. 



mild. Sp. PL 1. p. 1? 

 Canna indica flore luteo punctato. Rivin. fl. irreg. monop. 



112. 



Dr. Roxburgh, in his Flora Indica not yet published, 

 asserts, that the two varieties of red and yellow Canna are 

 exactly similar in the form of the corolla, and that conse- 

 quently Mr. Roscoe's lutea must be different, as he describes 

 the interior limb of the corolla as bifid. Our plant agrees 

 however with the description of the latter botanist, the inte- 

 rior border or limb consisting, not of three upright lacunae as 

 in coccinea (No. 454) but of two only, and these are narrower 

 and sharper pointed. The other parts of the corolla are 

 nearly similar in both : the external limb consists of three 

 latinise shorter than the internal, upright, nearly equal in 

 size, pointed, with involute margins ; which m the present 

 species are green upwards and purplish towards the base. 

 The nectarium of Linnjeus is composed of two laciniffi ; the 

 one reflexed, which has been stiled the labellum, or lower lip; 

 the other, erect and revolute at the point, is called the fila- 

 ment. 



