CANNA LAMBERTI 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SECT. I. CANN. 
Gey. Cuar.—Anther single, attached to the margin of the petal-like filament ; style erect, club-shaped ; stigma 
an obtuse terminal scale ; capsule three-celled; seeds numerous. 
Sprc. CHar.—Spike erect ; upper lip of interior limb of corolla in three segments ; segments ovate, unequal, 
intire ; lower lip lanceolate, intire, revolute; leaves broad-lanceolate. 
Syy.—Canna Lamberti. Bot. Reg. 470. 
Canna maxima. Loddiges, Cab. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root fibrous ; stems erect, from 12 to 14 feet high ; leaves broad-lanceolate, ineequilateral; floral bractes 
deciduous; calyx of three lanceolate leaves, purpurescent; outer limb of corolla in three lanceolate segments, 
nearly equal, erect, acute; inner limb in three segments ; segments broad, ovate, intire at the apex, unequal, 
the middle one being the smallest, and sometimes wanting ; lower lip smaller than either of the two larger 
sections of the upper lip, linear-lanceolate, intire, revolute; filament lanceolate, intire, revolute ; anther attached 
to the margin, near the apex; style erect, linear-lanceolate, acute; the whole corolla of a uniform, fine 
deep scarlet ; capsule ovate, rugose; seeds numerous. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This fine plant “ was raised by Mr. Lambert, from seed collected in the island of Trinidad, and flowered 
at Boyton House, in May 1820, for the first time in England.” On its first appearance it was supposed 
to be the Canna Indica of Ruiz and Pavon, Flor. Peruv. i. 1. and was referred to that species in Bot. Reg. 
470, where a figure of it was first published; but this error has since been corrected in the same work, 
and the Peruvian plant more accurately referred to Canna edulis. Bot. Reg. 775; and Note on C. Lamberti, 
in the appendix to vol. vi. ib. 
Our drawing of the present plant was taken from a specimen of the flowers, leaves and capsule, obligingly 
sent us by Messrs. Loddiges of Hackney, the plant in the Botanic Garden at Liverpool not having yet 
flowered. As an ornamental plant, it is not perhaps exceeded by any species in the genus, except the 
Iridiflora, which was also introduced into this country by Mr. Lambert. 
REFERENCES. 
1. Germen and calyx. 
2. Outer limb of corolla. 
3. The three segments of the upper lip of the inner limb of corolla. 
od 
. Filament and anther. 
oO 
. Lower lip of corolla. 
Dp 
. Capsule with the permanent calyx. 
