162 A FLORA OF MANILA 
Flowers deep-red, about 10 cm long, the bracts ovate to oblong-ovate, 
blunt, 2 cm long or less, purplish, glaucous. Sepals purplish and somewhat 
glaucous, 1.5 cm long, acute. Petals 6 em long, 1 cm wide when spread, 
involute, slightly paler red than the staminodes and yellowish inside. Stami- 
nodes deep-red, about 8 cm long and 3 cm wide, irregularly retuse, rarely 
rounded, tapering to the base, the fourth one narrower, the staminiferous 
one about 6 cm long and 7 to 8 mm wide, falcate, recurved. Capsules not 
maturing. 
Cultivated for ornamental purposes, fl. all the year, its range in ‘the 
Philippines unknown. A native of tropical America. 
*4. C. WARSCEWICZII Dietr. 
Whole plant bronzy-purple, 1 to 1.5 m high. Flowers solitary, red, the 
tube with traces of yellow on the inside, about 11 cm long. Bract about 6 
mm long, suborbicular, purplish. Sepals purplish, 1.5 cm long, obtuse. 
Corolla-tube about 2 cm long, the petals reflexed, slightly involute, 5 cm 
long, acuminate, purplish-red. Staminodes 4, about 8 em long and 3.5 cm 
wide, red, rounded, the fourth somewhat broader and somewhat yellowish 
in the basal part, about 2 cm wide, somewhat inequilaterally falcate, re- 
curved above the anther. Capsules not maturing. 
Commonly cultivated especially for its colored foliage, fl. all the year. 
A native of tropical America. 
*5. C. GLAUCA L. 
Erect, green, 1 to 1.5 m high. Leaves 20 to 35 em long. Flowers yellow, 
solitary, about 7 cm long, sometimes with faint orange-red dashes inside, the 
inflorescence glaucous. Bracts suborbicular, about 1.5 cm long. Sepals 
greenish, about 2 cm long. Petals erect, slightly involute, yellow, 4 to 5 
em long. Staminodes 4, the first three about 6.5 cm long, and. 2.2 cm 
wide, cleft or irregularly retuse at the apex or the third entire, the fourth 
recurved and narrower. Stamen about 6 mm wide, recurved above the 
insertion of the anther. 
Cultivated for ornamental purposes, fi. all the year. A native of tropical 
America. A form with much larger flowers, about 12 cm long, with more 
prominent dashes of orange-red, also cultivated, may be referable here. 
*6. C. FLACCIDA Salisb. X IRIDIFLORA Ruiz. & Pav. Bandera Espanola 
(Sp.-Fil.); Spanish Flag; Canna. 
A commonly cultivated hybrid, 1.5 to 2 m high, green, the inflorescence 
somewhat glaucous. Leaves up to 60 cm in length. Flowers large and 
showy, up to 16 cm in length, lemon-yellow, variously blotched and spotted 
with orange-red and orange-yellow, usually in pairs. Bracts green, about 
1.5 cm long, obtuse. Sepals green, purplish above 2.5 cm long, obtuse. 
Corolla-tube about 2.5 cm long, the petals 6 to 6.5 cm long, reflexed, yellow 
and purplish, acuminate. Staminal-tube up to 3.5 cm long, the staminodes, 
obovate-oblong, 10 to 11 cm long, margins crinkled and undulate. Stamen 
about 8 cm long and 4 cm wide. Capsules not maturing. 
Very commonly cultivated, fi. all the year. One of the numerous hybrids 
produced in Europe, from American species, various forms now found in 
all large towns in the Philippines in cultivation. 
