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CANNA GIGANTEA. 
Tall Indian-Shot. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nart. Onv. CANN. 
Gen. Cuar.—Anthera simplex, margini filamenti petaloidis affixa. Stylus 
spathulatus, adnatus tubo corollz: stigma lineare. Capsula 3-locularis, 
3-valvis ; semina plura.—Roxburgh. 
Canna gigantea; foliis petiolatis oblongo-lancedlatis, perianthii limbo 
interiore trifido, laciniis ineequalibus una cum labello lineari-spathu- 
latis recurvo-patentibus. 
Canna gigantea, Repourr’, Liliaceés, v. vi. t. 331.—Bot. Register, t. 206. 
Canna patens, Rosc. in Linn. Trans. v. viii. p. 338. 
This truly magnificent species throws up many stems from the same root, 
which reach to the height of from 6 to 8 feet, and are formed of the long 
sheathing bases of the leaves. The Jeaves themselves vary somewhat in 
form, and remarkably in size, upon different parts of the stem; the lower- 
most ones being two feet in length and petiolated; thence, as they pro- 
ceed upwards, they gradually become smaller and broader, so that the 
uppermost leaves are almost cordate, and not above 6 inches long ; the 
whole are of a most beautifully vivid green, with numerous parallel trans- 
Sie 1d, nerves springing from the central rib. s 
The flowers, of four inches or more in length, are terminal, racemed, the 
main stalk concealed by two long sheathing bracteas, green, with a brown 
edge ; the pedicels, which spring always in pairs, are are likewise furnished 
with small ovate bracteas, which soon wither and fall off : 
Calyx of 3 ovato-lanceolate, pale vellowiab great segments, having a purple 
‘Spot at their base. Corolla orolla almost wholly of one uniform scarlet colon, 
tubular, foumed of a double limb, of which the outer one consists of ® 
and embracing with its base, the linear spathulate, truncate, viscid style, 
Which is of the same colour as the rest of the flower. 
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