328 cxxxiv. sciTAMiNE^ (baker). [Canna. 



1-celled, adnate to one side of a petaloid lobe. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules 

 many in a cell ; style adnate at the base to the staminal tube, linear, 

 flattened ; stigmatose at the apex ; stylodia often also present. Capsule 

 globose, densely echiuate, indehiscent. Seeds subglobose ; testa finally 

 crustaceous ; embryo straight, in the centre of the hard albumen. — Tall 

 herbs, vv^ith leafy stems. Leaves broad, oblong. Flowers in terminal 

 racemes ; bracts membranous. Outer staminodia 2-3, oblong-spathu- 

 late, petaloid, usually bright red or yellow, often spotted. 



Species 20-30, all but two natives of Tropical and Subtemperate America. 



1. C. indica, Linn, subsp. C. orientalis, Eosc. Scit. 1. 12. Stem 

 glabrous, 4-6 ft. long. Leaves oblong, acute, green or tinged with 

 brown, the lower 1 ft. long, 4-5 in. broad. Racemes lax, terminal on 

 the leafy stem, simple or forked ; pedicels short ; bracts small, ovate. 

 Sepals oblong-lanceolate, green, \-^ in. long. Petals lanceolate, IJ in. 

 long. Upper staminodia 3, oblanceolate, 2 in. long, bright red, dis- 

 tinctly emarginate ; lip red-yellow, linear, distinctly emarginate. Fruit 

 globose, 1 in. long. Seeds globose, black, smooth, J in. diam. — C. 

 indica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 1 ; Ridley in Journ. Bot. 1887, 134. C. 

 EhQ^enbergii, 'Bouche in Linnsea, viii. 150 ; Horan. Prodr. 16. C. hiden- 

 tata, A. Bertol. Misc. xx. 9, t. 1. 



XJpper Guinea. Senegal, Hoc/er ! Sierra Leone, Morson ! Vogel ! Ashanti, 

 Cummins! Lower Niger: Abo, Barker, 198 ! 



irile Iiand. British East Africa: Nyika country, near Mombasa, Wakefield! 



XiOwer Guinea. Annabon Island, Burton ! Island of St. Thomas, Moller, 101 ! 

 Lower Congo, Burton ! Angola : Bembe, Monteiro ! Golungo Alto ; in reed-beds by 

 the streams, and in damp woods, Welwitsch, Q^4:^ \ Pungo Andongo; by streams 

 within the fortitications, Welioitsch, 6448b. 



South Central. Monbuttu: Mnnza, Schtoeinfurth, ser. iii. 203! 



XVXozamb. I>ist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Valley of the Shire River, 

 Meller ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and Karonga, Whyte ! 



Also Natal and Tropical Asia. The typical C, indica, Linn., Rose. Scit. i. 1, is a 

 native of Tropical America. A plant sent from Angola by Mr. Monteiro, which 

 flowered at Kew in 1896, was referred by Mr. N. E. Brown to C. speciosa, Rose. Scit. 

 t. 17, which is stated to have been introduced from Africa in 1819, and afterwards 

 from Calcutta by Dr. Wallich, who found it growing wild in Nepal. 



13. MUSA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 655. 



Calyx tubular, 3-5-lobed, slit down one side. Petal one, entire or 

 3-lobed, placed opposite the slit side of the calyx. Perfect stamens 5 ; 

 sixth rudimentary ; filaments filiform ; anthers linear, 2-celled. Ovary 

 3-celled ; ovules many in a cell ; style filiform ; stigma terminal, 

 6-toothed. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds globose or angled by 

 pressure, often excavated at the hilum ; albumen farinaceous ; testa 

 intruded into the albumen at the apex and base ; embryo straight. — 

 Stems cylindrical or bottle-shaped, woody, formed by the union of the 

 leaf -stalks. Bracts large and spathaceous. Flowers in terminal spicate 

 panicles, unisexual, few or many to a bract, those of the lower bracts 

 fertile, those of the upper bracts staminate. 



