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CANNA* speciosa. 

 Shewy Carina. 



MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



CANNA.— Supra, vol. 7. fol. 576. 



C. speciosa ; panicvila ampla ramosa undique furfuraceo-pruinosa, bracteis 

 laxis ventricosis subtruncatis, corolla 6-partita infundibuliformi bilabiata, 

 laciniis labii superloris subfoniicatis retusis : inferiore recurvata emar- 

 ginata, rachibus triquetris. — Wallich MSS. 

 Canna speciosa. Roscoe scit. Herbert in hot. mag. v. 49. t. 2317. Spreng. 

 curcB post. p. 5. 



Planta speciosa, 4-6-pedalis, quin ultrd, caule hasi crasso, superne in ramos 

 plures simplices patulos panicalatim ramosa. Folia lato-ovata, vel ovato- 

 lanceolata, in acumen breve gracile attenuata, membranaceo-marginulata, 

 parum undulata, basi rotundata, subamplexicaulia, inferiora pedalia bipe- 

 dalia. Vaginae superiores spathacece, ramorum bases laxe amplexantes, scepe 

 terminatce lamina parvd foliaced . Panicula ampla, elevata, omnibus partibus 

 obtectis purpuraceo-pruinosis. Racemi multijiori, magni, ovati, rachibus 

 acute trigonis, coloratis, parum Jiexuosis. Flores geminati, coccinei, fundo 

 maculato-lutei, suffulti bracteis tribus rnembranaceis, calyce ovarioque valde 

 furfuraceis, rufescentibus, subdiaphanis ; exteriore fere pollicari, basin fas- 

 ciculi laxe involvente, rotundato-ovatd, ventricosd, obtusissvnd, snbtruncatd ; 

 interioribus ovatis, istd multb minoribus. Calyx rufescens ; lacini(£ sub- 

 (squales, lanceolatce, acuta, semiunciales. Corolla /ere 3-pollicaris, infundi- 

 buliformis, extiis parilm furfuracea. Tubus brevis, pallidus, flavescens. 

 Limbus patulus; lacinice exteriores lanceolatce, acuminatce, totd corolld tertio 

 breviores ; una reliquis paullb minor ; lacinice interiores duce, superiores 

 erecto-conniventes, concaviusculce , subfornicatce, lanceolatce, retuscB, nunc 

 distinctiiis bidentatce, deorsum attenuatce in unguem canaliculatum ; inferior 

 labium inferius corollcB efficiens, linearis, retusa, decurvato-porrecta, ad 

 discum uti filamentum fiavo lineata. Filamentum labio inferiori subsimile, 

 sed paullb brevius, et contrarid direclione, i. e. sursilm recurvum, oblique 

 acutuin. Stylus saturatius coloratus, lucidus, terminatus stigmate carnoso, 

 transverso, lineari. Capsula magna, densissimc echinata, aculeis comets 

 mollibus, obtuse trigona. Semina magna, atra. — Wallich MSS. 



* This is a Greek word, of unknown origin, unless we adopt De Theis' 

 opinion, that it has proceeded from the Celtic cana, a reed, or rather cotton- 

 grass. We read somewhere in Ossian, that " her neck is white as the 

 down of Cana." 



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