96 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Gollan records pods over a foot long, excellent for culinary purposes 

 when young, and finds this vegetable available in the climate of 

 Saharumpore when most others are out of season. In Demerara the 

 young pods are used, boiled like French beans, the nearly ripe seeds 

 like broad beans, and the fully ripe seeds after boiling for mash 

 [Jenman]. C. ensiformis (D.C.) is another variety, but the wild 

 state (C. virosa, Wight) is apt to develop poisonous properties in its 

 fruit. C. obtusifolia is decidedly deleterious. 



Canella alba, Murray. 



West-Indies and Florida. An evergreen tree, to 50 feet high, 

 aromatic in all its parts ; the bark particularly used, less in medicine 

 than as a condiment. 



Canna Achiras, Gillies. 



Mendoza. One of the few extra-tropic Cannas, eligible for arro- 

 root culture. 



Canna coccinea, Miller. 



West-Indies. Yields, with some other Cannas, the particular 

 arroroot called Tous Les Mois. 



Canna edulis, Edwards and Ker. * 



The Adeira of Peru. One of the hardiest of arroroot, or rather 

 aru-root plants. Seeds will germinate even when many years old, 

 even 30 years [Lambert]. Plants, supplied at the Botanic Garden 

 of Melbourne, have yielded excellent starch at Melbourne, Western 

 Port, Lake Wellington, Ballarat, and other localities in the colony of 

 Victoria. The Rev. Mr. Hagenauer, of the Gippsland Aboriginal 

 Mission-station, obtained over one ton from an acre ; the Rev. Mr. 

 Bulmer found this root to yield 28 per cent, of starch. The gathering 

 of the roots is effected there about April. The plants can be set out 

 in ordinary ploughed land. Starch grains remarkably large. This 

 Canna resembles a banana in miniature, hence it is eligible for scenic 

 plantations. The local production in Gippsland is already large 

 enough to admit of extensive sale. Readily flowering only in hot 

 climes. C. Warszewiczii (A. Dietrich) of Costa Rica is one of the 

 handsomest among smaller scenic plants, adapting itself to almost 

 any culture ; it is quite hardy at Port Phillip. 



Canna flaccida, Roscoe. 



Carolina. Probably also available for arroroot, though in the first 

 instance, like many congeners, chosen only for ornamental culture. 



Canna glauca, Linne". 



One of the West-Indian Aruroot-Cannas. 



