312 SCITAMINE. 
4; Canna liliiflora, Warsc. in Fl. des Serres, t. 1055; Horan. Prodr. Monogr. 
Scit. p. 17; Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Bot. Petrop. 1866, p. 86. 
Panama, Veraguas ( Warscewicz). 
5. Canna longifolia, Bouché in Linnea, xviii. p. 487; Horan. Prodr. Monogr. 
Scit. p. 15. 
MExIco. 
6. Canna lutea, Rosc. in Bot. Reg. t. 773, et Scit. t. 18; Bot. Mag. t. 2085; 
Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Bot. Petrop. 1866, p. 87 (varietates 4), 
Canna pallida, Rosc. Scit. t. 19, et 8. maculata, t. 20. 
Canna lagunensis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1311. 
Canna aurantiaca, Rose. Scit. t. 21. 
MEXICco. 
The distribution of this species is imperfectly known. 
7. Canna patens, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, p.1; Bot. Reg. t. 576; Rose. Scit. 
t. 3; Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Bot. Petrop. 1866, p. 84. 
Canna indica, Bot. Mag. t. 454, non Linn. 
Canna xalapensis, Bouché in Linnea, vii. p. 163. 
Sour Mexico, Jalapa (ex Bouché). 
8. Canna warscewiczil, Dietr. in Otto & Dietr. Allg. Gart. Zeit. 1851, p. 289; 
Bot. Mag. t. 4854; Belg. Hort. ii. p. 277, cum ic. color.; Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort.. Bot. 
Petrop. 1866, p. 87. 
Costa Rica ( Warscewicz). 
Tribe 1V. MUSE. 
Musee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iil. pp. 639 et 655. 
This tribe comprises four genera, of which Strelitzia is confined to South Africa; 
Ravenala is represented by one species in North-eastern South America, and by a 
second in Madagascar; and Musa is an Old-World genus, two or three species of which 
are commonly cultivated and more or less wild in all hot countries. MM. paradisiaca, 
Linn., and I. sapientum, Linn., are both common in Tropical America. 
8. HELICONIA. 
Heliconia, Linn. Mant. n. 1297; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 655. 
An exclusively Tropical-American genus of about twenty-five species, one of which 
occurs here and there in the Old World, though perhaps nowhere as an indigenous 
plant. 
1. Heliconia bihai, Linn. Mant. p- 211; Swartz, Obs. p. 96, t. 5; Horan. 
Prodr. Monogr. Scit. p. 39; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 600; Bot. Reg. t. 874. 
Musa bihai, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, p. 1477. 
