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CANNA paTens. 
Spreading-flowered Indian Shot. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nat. Orv. CANNEZ, Br.—CANNE, Juss. 
Gen. Cuar.—Anthera simplex, margine filamenti petaloidis affixa. Stylus 
spathulatus adnatus tubo corollz: stigma lineare. epic 3-locularis, 
3-valvis. Semina plura.—RoxBuren. 
Canna patens ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, limbi interioris perianthio labio 
superiore trifido, laciniis eequalibus eblenge peat erecto-pa- 
tentibus labello revoluto apice bifido. 
Canna patens, Roscos, in Linn. Trans, v. viii. p. 338. ?—Arr. Hort. Kem. 
ed. 2. v. i. p. 1.—Bot. Reg. t. 576.—Roscor, Monandr. Pl. cum Ic. 
Canna indica, 3 patens. Arr. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. i. p. 1.—Wuittp. Sp. PI. 
oe i. p. 3. 
Canna indica, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 554. (excl. the syn.) ae 
Canna aureo-vittata, Lopp. Bot. Cab. t. 449. . 
Canna limbata, Bot. Reg. t. 771. 
Stems 3-4 feet high. Leaves ovat-lanceolate,subacuminate, the egos 
See ae powdery, erect ' 
“is x eis ls of which the exterior consis of 
ish, 
wards. "Signe teria transverse. — 
Nothing is more a sdiade nik ee 
Gawzen in the Botanical Register, that “it has been the lot 
cies of this genus to have been arranged in the 
