CANNA CARNEA. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SECT. I CANN. 
Guy. Cuar.—Anther single, attached to the margin of the petal-like filament; style erect, club-shaped ; stigma 
an obtuse scale; capsule three-celled ; seeds globose, numerous. 
Sprc. Cuar.—Spike inclined ; upper lip of the interior limb of corolla in two sections, lanceolate, involute at the 
margins, intire, acute, nearly equal, on long claws; lip linear, intire, revolute, leaves broad-ovate, 
with a red line in the middle. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem three to four feet high, solid, having a swollen joint at every six or eight inches, covered with 
the sheathing base of the leaves; leaves alternate, broad-lanceolate, smooth on both sides, membranous on the 
margin, with a red or purple tinge on each side of the mid-rib on the upper surface of the leaves; petioles 
and sheathing slightly covered with a deciduous down; general bracte long-lanceolate, green, deciduous, 
inclosing the spike ; floral bractes ovate, coriaceous, glaucous, triflorous ; spike terminal, inclined; rachis triangular ; 
calyx superior, persistent, in three equal segments, acute, coloured at the points; outer limb of corolla in three 
lanceolate, erect, nearly equal segments, pale yellow ; interior segments on a long channelled claw, lanceolate, 
intire, acute, somewhat incurved, pale red or flesh colour; lip narrow, linear, intire at the apex, revolute ; 
filament short, apex revolute, anther near the apex; style very long, linear, left margin incrassated; stigma a 
long fleshy scale. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This plant approximates to the larger species of Canna lately introduced from the Brazils, but is 
extremely distinct from any before known. It flowered for the first time in England, in the Conservatory of 
Arnold Harrison, Esq. at Aighburgh, near Liverpool; having been sent to Mrs. Harrison, by her brother 
Mr. William Harrison, from Rio de Janeiro. 
REFERENCES. 
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. Intire flower. 
2. The two sections of the upper lip of interior limb of corolla. 
3. Lower lip. 
4, Filament, anther, style, and stigma. 
5. Outer limb of corolla. 
6. Calyx and germen. 
7. Floral bracte. 
