CAN A FA LI A 



(sword or sabre bean, overlook) cult. ed. pods. C. obhisifolia DC. 

 is a common trop. shore plant. 



Canbya Parry. Papaveraceae (11). 2 California, Mex. 

 Cancellate, latticed. 



Cancrinia Kar. et Kir. Compositae (7). i Centr. As. 

 Candidus (Lat.), pure white. 

 Candle-nut, Aleurites ; -plant, Dictammts ; -tree, Parmentiera ; -wood 



(W. I.), Sciadophyllitm, Ainyris. 

 Candollea Labill. in Ann. Mus. Par. 1805 (Stylidium Sw., q.v.}. 



Stylidiaceae. 85 Austr., N. Z., E. As. 

 Candollea Labill. i8o6-Hibbertia Andr. p.p. (Dillen.). 

 Candolleaceae = Stylidiaceae. 

 Candy-tuft, Iberis amani, L. 

 Cane, a commercial term for stems of grasses (esp. bamboos), 



climbing palms, &c. ; bamboo-, cf. bamboos ; -brake, Ariindinaria ; 



dumb-, Dieffenbachia; Malacca-, Calamus; rattan-, Calamus, and 



cf. Rattan; sugar-, Saccharum ojficinarum L. Tobago, Bactns 



minor Jacq. ; Whangee-, Phyllostachys. 

 Canella P. Br. (Winterana L.). 2 W. Ind., trop. Am. C. alba Murr. 



yields Canella bark, used as a tonic and stimulant. 

 Canella bark, see last. 

 Canellaceae = Winteranaceae. 

 Canephora Juss. Rubiaceae (i. 8). i Madagascar. Fls. in clusters 



at the top of a phyllodineous stalk with a 2-lobed calyculus. 

 Canescent, grey or hoary. 



Canistrum Morren (Aechmea p.p. ff.). Bromel. (4). 4 Brazil. 

 Canker-berry (W. L), Solatium bahamense L. 

 Canna L. Cannaceae. 40 trop. and subtrop. Am., C. indica L. 



cosmop. trop. Many sp. , vars. and hybrids, cult. C. indica (Indian 



shot) is the basis of most of these. Habit like Zingiberaceae or 



Marantaceae, but C. can be distinguished even when not in fl. by 



possessing neither the ligule of the former nor 



the pulvinus of the latter. Infl. term. usu. 



composed of 2-fl. cincinni. The two fls. are 



homodromous, but the bracteole is to the right 



in one and to the left in the other (behind 



one or other of the two lat. sepals in the 



diagram). Fl. $> , asymmetric, epig. K 3, 



C (3). The A is the most conspicuous part. 



There is a leafy sta. bearing half an anther on 



one edge, and a number of paaloid structures 



round it, usu. 3 but sometimes i or 4. One of 



these is the labellum (not = that of Zingibera- 

 ceae), and is rolled back on itself outwards. 



The other two are often termed the wings (a /3 



in diagram). When a fourth std. (7, cf. 



Marantaceae) is present it stands behind the 



fertile sta. Other sp. have only the labellum. 



style, 3-loc.; ov. in 2 rows in each loc., anatr. 



Seed with perisperm and straight embryo. 



As to the morphological explanation of the A, there are two views 



Floral diagram of 

 Canna indica (after 

 Eichler). The bracteole 

 i* omitted. S = petaloid 

 style; L = labellum; a/3 

 = staminodes. 



G (3) with petaloid 

 Caps., usu. warty. 



