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(ANNA EDULIS. 'TUBEROUS-ROOTED INDIAN 
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Class and Order. 
Monanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
_ Anthera simplex, filamenti margini adnata. Stylus cras- 
‘sus, elaviformis. Stigma obtusum. Caps. 3-locularis. 
Sem. globosa, numerosa. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Canna edulis ; foliis lato-ovatis nitidis, vaginis marginibus 
__ foliorum cauleque coloratis, radice tuberoso. 
Canna edulis ; limbi- interioris labio summo tripartito 
erecto, laciniis ovali-oblongis retusis late unguiculatis, 
media plurimum breviore ; labello lineari-oblongo 
recurvato retuso ; caule punicante. Bot. Reg. n. 775. 
Canna indica; foliis ovato-oblongis, laciniis corolla subx- 
qualibus. Ruiz et Pavon, Fl. Peruy 1. p. i. 
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Descr. Stem of the specimen from which our drawing 
Was made, rounded, and a little flattened, purple, between 
and four feet high, clothed with leaves all the way, 
of which the lower ones were sixteen inches long, and 
‘even wide, bright shining green on the upper surface ; the 
Margins and sheaths, as well as the stem, purple. Pedun- 
cle in our specimen, scarcely emerging from the upper leaf, 
few-flowered. Germen oval, tuberculated, with two small 
Concave bractes at the base. Calyx superior, three-leaved, 
about the length of the germen. Three outer lacinie of 
the corolla erect, equal, acute, purplish scarlet, three 
mner ones, as usual, variable in size and position, of a 
bright scarlet colour. The nectarium of Linnaus, the 
'pper lip of which bears the anther on its margin, and 
the 
