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6. CALATHEA. 
Calathea, G. F. W. Mey. Prim. Fl. Esseq. p. 6; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 653. 
About sixty species of this genus have been recorded; two of them from Tropical 
Africa, and all the rest from Tropical America. 
1. Calathea, sp. (aff. C. guianensi). 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Tate, 303, 409). Hb. Kew. 
2. Calathea, sp. ? 
Nicaragua (Tate, 408). Hb. Kew. 
Tribe III. CANNEA. 
Cannee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. pp. 639 et 654. 
Limited to the genus Canna. 
7. CANNA. 
Canna, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 1; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. ill, p. 654. 
A genus of barely thirty species, all of which are natives of Tropical and Subtropical 
America, and one of which is very widely spread in warm regions. Two or three others 
are also found here and there in the Old World, where, however, they may have been 
introduced. Horaninow (Prodr. Monogr. Scit.) enumerates sixty-six species, which, 
excluding a few doubtful ones, Regel (Ind. Sem. Hort. Bot. Petrop. 1866) reduces to 
twenty-five; but even these are very imperfectly represented in herbaria. 
1. Canna cinnabarina, Bouché in Linnea, xviii. p. 490 ; Horan. Prodr. Monogr. 
Scit. p. 16. 
MExIco. 
Like many others proposed by the same author, this probably should rank no higher 
than a garden variety. The description is limited to the colours of the sepals, petals, 
and stamens. 
2. Canna glauca, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 603; Regel. 
Ind. Sem. Hort. Bot. Petrop. 1866, p. 84; Rose. Scit. t. 7. 
Canna mexicana, Bouché in Linnea, viii. p. 158; Bot. Mag. t. 2802 (Canna glauca, B. rufa) ; Horan. 
Prodr. Monogr. Scit. p. 14. 
Mexico (ex Bouché). 
3. Canna heliconisefolia, Bouché in Linnea, viii. p. 164; Horan. Prodr. Monogr. 
Scit. p. 17. 
Mexico (ex Bouché). 
Described from a cultivated plant. 
