264 Scilaminecs. \Caima. 



the petiole when the leaf-blade is not very well developed); 

 outer bracts 2-3 at the base of the spike, large, rigid, with 

 incurved scarious tips, breaking up into tufts of fibres, inner 

 bracts closely imbricate, oblong, 2-4-fld., acute; fl. shortly 

 ]:)edicelled, about i in. king; sep. linear, hairy; cor.-tube 

 slender, funnel-shaped above, scgm. 3, purple, spathulate, 

 recurved, tips hairy ; stam. -column 5-lobed, 2 outer lobes 

 larger, one orbicular concave; fil. adnate to the smaller segm., 

 anth. small; ov. hairy, stigma funnel-shaped, uncinate; fr, size 

 of a gooseberry, turbinate, trigonous, 3-valved ; seeds erect, 

 subglobose, testa spongy, embryo curved. 



Forests in moist low country to 3000 ft. Ramboda ; Alagalla ; 

 Kurawiti Korale. Fl. Jan., Feb. ; dark pink. 

 Also in S. India and Malaya. 



13. CANNA, Linn. 

 Rootstock stout ; stem simple, leafy ; I. large ; fl, in a 

 terminal lax simple or branched raceme ; bracts oblong, 

 membranous ; sep. 3, erect, short, stiff, persistent ; cor.-tube 

 cylindric, segments 3, subequal, lanceolate ; stam. -tube short, 

 connate below with the cor.-tube, segm. 4, petaloid, unequal, 

 anth. adnate to one side of one of the smaller narrower segm., 

 I -celled ; ov, 3-celled, cells many-ovuled ; style flattened, 

 adnate below to the stam. -tube, stigma capitate ; fr. sub- 

 globose, echinate, pericarp at length deliquescent ; seeds 

 globose, testa thin, endosperm floury, embryo straight. — Sp. 

 20-30; I in Fl. Vk Ind. 



C. indica, A. Sp. PL \ (1753). Butsarana, S. 



Herm. Mus. 66. Burm. Thes. 53. Fl. Zeyl. n. i. Moon, Cat, i. 

 Thw. Enum. 320. C. P. 3706. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 260. Rheede, Hort. Mai. .\i. t. 43. 



Stem 3~4 ft. ; 1. 6-18 by 4-8 in., lanceolate to ovate, oval, 

 or almost orbicular, caudate-acuminate, veins arching, sheath 

 open above, margins membranous ; raceme with the ped. a 

 foot or more, erect, ped. with a long narrow sheath about 

 the middle; fl. rather distant, 2-2^ in. long; bracts \-i in., 

 oblong, membranous, obtuse, green ; cal.-segm. \-\ in., mem- 

 branous, obtuse; cor.-segm. i in., erect, narrow, oblanceolate, 

 acuminate, greenish or coloured ; stam. segmencs longer than 

 the corolla, 3 subcrect, spathulate, i linear, revolute ; fr. erect, 

 J- 1 in. long, subglobose or oblong, obscurely 3-lobcd, crowned 

 with the cal.-segm., pericarp cchinulatc, black, thin ; seeds 

 very many, globose, testa crustaceous, black, shining. 



