CANNA AURANTIACA. 
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 scale; seeds numerous. 
Spec. Cuar.—Upper lip of interior limb in two sections; sections ovate, bifid at the apex, nearly equal; spike 
loose, few flowered. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Roots tuberous, running horizontally, about the thickness of a man’s finger; stem erect, from 4 to 6 feet 
high ; leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, undulate at the margin, pale green, with decurrent petioles sheathing the 
stem; general bracte deciduous, or supplied by a floral leaf; floral bracte an ovate membranous scale; calyx of 
three acute, lanceolate segments; outer limb of corolla of three long, lanceolate, pale pink-coloured segments ; 
upper lip of the inner limb in two segments, ovate, emarginate, nearly equal, deep orange; lower lip narrow, linear, 
emarginate, yellow, with orange spots, declined; filament linear, intire; anther adhering to the margin of the 
filament, near the apex, grooved, and resembling a grain of wheat; style club-shaped, erect, orange colour ; 
stigma an obscure scale. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
The seeds of this hitherto undescribed species of Canna, were sent from Brazil by William Swainson, Esq. 
in the year 1819, to the Botanic Garden in Liverpool, where the plants have since regularly flowered. It is 
one of the more showy of the species, and from its tall growth and tuberous roots, appears to be allied to 
the esculent tribes of this genus, which are peculiar to the tropical parts of South America. 
REFERENCES. 
1. The two sections of the interior limb of corolla. 
2. Filament, anther, and style. 
3. Lower lip. 
. Outer limb of corolla. 
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5. Germen and calyx. 
6. Anther, style and stigma, before the expansion of the flower. 
