248 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS 1^24 



Local names: Balunsaying (Bis.); bangali (Bik.) ; kakuentasan (Tag.); 

 kiuingan (If.) ; kolintasan (Bis.) ; kuentas-kuentasan (Tag.) ; lasa (Iv.) ; 

 saging-saging (Tag.) ; tapuraiiga (Bis.) ; tikas (Tag.) ; tikas-tikas (Tag., 

 P. Bis.); tikis-tikis (Tag.); tukas-tukas (Tag.). 



CANNA REEVESII Lindl. Bot. Reg. 23 (1837) t. 200U; Kranzl. in Engl. 

 Pflanzenreich 56 (1912) 50, /. 10, A-C. 

 Cultivated for ornamental purposes, but nowhere spontaneous, Mery-ill 

 6692, det. Kranzlin. A native of tropical America. 



CANNA SPECIOSA Rose. Monandr. PI. (1828) t. 17; Naves Novis. App. 

 (1880) 229; Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 161; Kranzl. in Engl. Pflan- 

 zenreich 56 (1912) 44, f. 8 D. 

 Occasional in open waste places, naturalized, Merrill 6689. A native 

 of tropical America. 



Local name: Kambut-nganalabaga (Ilk.). 



CANNA WARCEWICZM Dietr. in Allg. Gart. Zeit. 19 (1851) 290, fig.; 

 Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 162; Kranzl. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 56 

 (1912) 64. 

 Cultivated for ornamental purposes, but nowhere established. A native 

 of tropical America. 



Local name: Kambut-nga-nangisit (Ilk.). 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



Canna MONTANA Blume; Naves Novis. App. (1880) 229. 



Canna edulis Ker.; Naves 1. c. 



Canna pedunculata Sims; Naves 1. c. 



Canna rubric4ULIS Link; Naves 1. c. = C. edulis Ker. 



Canna flavescens Link; Naves 1. c. 



All our forms of Canna are introduced plants in the Philippines. Two 

 or three characteristic species are thoroughly naturalized, especially Canna 

 indica Linn., which was introduced at an early date in colonial history. A 

 very large number of garden forms, mostly hybrids, have been introduced 

 from Europe and America since the beginning of the present century, 

 but it is impossible to determine their botanical origins, as the necessary 

 data are lacking; few of these hybrids ever produce seeds here, but are 

 reproduced by means of their rhizomes. 



MARANTACEAE 

 1. DON AX Loureiro 



DON AX CANNAEFORMIS (Forst. f.) K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 15 



(1893) 440; Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 45 (1907) 243; Ridl. in Philip. 



Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 193; Valeton ex Merr. Interpret. Herb. 



Amb. (1917) 166; Merr. Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 112. 

 Thalia cannaef ormis Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 1. 

 Maranta arundinacea Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 7, ed. 2 (1845) 5, ed. 



3, 1 (1877) 9, t 5, non Linn. 



