CANNA LUTEA. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SECT. I. SCITAMINE. 
Gry. Cuar.—Anther single, attached to the margin of the filament; style erect, club-shaped; stigma an obtuse 
scale ; capsule three-celled ; seeds numerous, globose. 
Spec. Cuar.—Spike erect ; upper lip in two sections, emarginate, or slightly bifid; lower lip revolute, notched ; 
leaves broad-lanceolate, strongly ribbed with a white membranous margin ; flowers yellow. 
Syy.—Canna lutea. Corolle limbo interiori bifido. Roscoe, in Trans. Lin. Soc. viii. 338. 
Canna lutea. Corolle limbo interiori bifido. Hort. Kew. Ed. alt. i. p22: 
Canna lutea. Yellow Indian reed. Bot. Mag. No. 2085. 
Canna lutea. Roemer § Schultes, i. 12. 
Canna lutea, @ Cannee Indice varietate luted, a limbi interioris labio superiore bipartito prima Sronte 
dignoscenda. Bot. Reg. No. 773. 
Canna lutea. Sprengel Syst. Veg. i. 7. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Roots tuberous, with long fibres; stems erect, simple, smooth, 3—4 feet high; leaves alternate, broad- — 
lanceolate, undulate, lower ones 12-14 inches long, by 5-6 broad, strongly ribbed, with a white membranous 
margin ; petioles 2-3 inches long, channelled, decurrent, pale green and smooth on both sides ; general bracte 
coriaceous, the place of it sometimes supplied by a floral leaf; calyx in three short, lanceolate, striated segments, 
green; rachis triangular, smooth; outer limb of corolla in three lanceolate segments, erect, pale yellow; upper 
lip of inner limb in two segments, segments unequal, ovate, emarginate, bifid with a short pallid claw ; lower 
lip linear, revolute, notched at the apex; filament lanceolate, intire, declined at the apex; anther oblong, 
grooved, and placed towards the apex of the filament ; style erect, spatulate; stigma a scale ; capsule ovate, muricate. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
We have already adverted, in our description of the yellow variety of Canna orientalis, to the remark: of 
Dy. Roxburgh, that “ the present plant must be different from that variety, as in this the inner limb of the corolla 
is bifid.” To which it may be added, that in this, the exterior limb of the corolla is erect and converging, whilst 
in the variety of the Orientalis it is generally reflexed; distinctions which will henceforth sufficiently serve to 
prevent these two very different species from being mistaken for each other. 
In the first edition of the Hort. Kew. (1789) this plant was considered as a variety of the Canna Indica, but in 
the second edition (1810) the distinction given in Lin. Trans. vol. viii. p 338, is adopted, and it is given as a 
distinct species. The reference in Lin. Trans. to C. Indica, (var. 8.) lutea, in Hort. Kew. should however, be excluded, 
according to the remark in Bot. Reg. p. 772; as it seems to have led to the idea, that this and the yellow variety 
of the C. Indica (figured in this work as C. orientalis, var. flava,) were considered as the same plant. 
The suggestion in the Bot. Reg. No. 773, that this plant is a native of South America, is most likely well founded. 
The observations on the figure of this plant, given in Curt. Bot. Mag. No. 2085, are perfectly satisfactory, and 
may, moreover, be consulted with advantage, as throwing a clear light on this now very numerous genus. 
The plant in the Botanic Garden at Liverpool, from which the present figure was drawn, was obligingly 
communicated some years since, by the Right Hon. the Earl of Mountnorris. 
REFERENCES. 
. Intire flower. 
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2. The two upper sections of inner limb of corolla. 
3. Filament, anther, style and stigma. 
4. Lip. 
5. Outer limb of corolla. 
6. Germen and calyx. 
