78 CANN-iE. [CI. 4. 



mostly clothed with the sheathing Footstalks. Leaves 

 alternate, sheathing, convolute when young ; their 

 simple mid-rib sending off at each side innumerable, 

 transverse, or obliquely parallel, ribs. Flowers on a 

 common stalk, from the central leaves, in alternate 

 Clusters, each Flower and Cluster attended by a 

 Sheath." 



Musa, Heliconia, and Ravenala, fig. 155, (Schre- 

 ber's Urania, Gen. PI. 212.) compose this Order, to 

 which belongs Strelitzia, fig. 154, Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 ed. 2. v. 2. 54. 



Ord. 20. Cann/e. "Calyx superior, coloured, 

 divided into many, generally 6, petal-like segments, 

 mostly unequal and irregular, the 3 outermost some- 

 times smallest, resembling an outer Calyx. Stamen 

 1, its filament inserted at the base of the Style, often 

 flat and petal-like, with a linear adhering Anther, 

 simple, or rarely double. Germen with a simple, 

 often thread-shaped Style, and a simple or divided 

 Stigma. Capsule of 3 cells, mostly with 3 valves, 

 and many Seeds. Root often tuberous and creeping, 

 (perennial). Stem herbaceous, clothed with sheath- 

 ing Footstalks. Leaves alternate, sheathing, convo- 

 lute when young ; either many-ribbed ; or with a 

 single mid-rib, sending off parallel ribs at each side. 

 Flowers accompanied by Sheaths, generally disposed 

 on a terminal or radical Spadlx" (rather a common 

 Flower-stalk). 



Jussieu's Genera are his own Cat'mibium, (which 



