Canna.] oxlix. sciTAMiNEiE, (J. G. Baker.) 261 



Sootstock tuberous, with many fibres. Stem 3-4 ft. Leaves oblong, acute, 

 lower 1 ft. or more. -Broscis i in., ovate, green. Sepafe small, lanceolate. Corolla- 

 tube i— J in. ; lobes 1 in., lanceolate, greenish. Outer staminal segments 3, bright 

 red, oblanceolate, 1^ in. by i-J in. ; lip rather shorter ; anther i in. Capsule 

 globose, 4-J in. Seeds black, the size of a pea. 



Var. PLAVA, Sosc. Scit. I'l, 1. 13 ; stature of the type, staminal segments plain 

 bright yellow. C. flavesoens. Link ; Soran. Prodr. 41. 



"Var. C. HEPALENSIS, Wall. Cat. 6622 (sp.) ; stem much taller, leaves larger, 

 corolla-segments IJ in., outer staminal segments usually 3 bright red not emargiuate, 

 capsule above 1 in. Bouche m Linncea, viii. 158 ; Horan, Prodr. 15. — Nepal, 

 WalUch. , 



Var. C. SPEOIOSA, Rose. Scit. PI. t. 17 (sp.); much taller than the type, 

 leaves larger, outer staminal segments 2 acute bright red with a channelled 

 yellow claw, lip variegated with red and yellow. Serlj. in Sot. Mag. t. 2317 ; 

 Wall, in Bot. Beg. t. 1276 ; Moran. Prodr. 16. — Nepal and Kumaon. 



Another Indian form, unknown to me, is C. exigna, BoucM; Soran. Prodr, 

 16. The American form to which Roscoe and Horaninow restrict the name 

 IHDICA is figured Eosc. Scit. PI. t. 1 j Bot. Eeg. t. 776. 



23. MVSA, Lirni. 



Stem subarboresoent, of convolute leaf sheaths. Leaves very large, 

 oblong. Flowers in an erect or decurved spike, bubunisexnal, lower female, 

 Tipper male; bracts large, spathacepus ovate or orbicular. Calyx slit 

 down one side to the base, 3-5-lobed. Corolla as long as the calyx or 

 shorter, wrapped round the stamens and style. Perfect stamens 5, sixth, 

 rudimentary or ; filaments stout, filiform ; anthers linear, erect, 2-celled. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style filiform from a thickened 

 base ; stigma subglohose 6-lobed. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, oblong or 

 fusiform, trigonous. Seeds subglobose or angled by pressure. — Species 

 about 20 ; tropics of the Old World. 



* Not stoloniferous, dying after flowering. Bracts many-fld. Fruit 

 not pulpy and edible. 



1. m. superba, Roxb. Sort. Beng. 19; Corom. PI. t. 223; Fl. 

 Ind.x. 667; stem short stoiit ovoid, leaves sessile on the sheath, bracts 

 large orbicular many-fld. dull red, calyx 3-cleft, petal shorter than the 

 calyx obcordate with a large mucro, fruit oblong subcoriaoeous. Wall. 

 Cat. 6166; Wight Ic. t. 2017; Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 3849-3850; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 272 ; Horan. Prodr. 41. M. textilis, Grah. Cat. PI. Bomb. 

 213, non Nee. 



Wbstebn Ghats. 



Whole plant 10-12 ft. Stem covered with the persistent sheaths of the 

 leaves. Leaves 8-10 ft., narrowed to the base. Spiie drooping ; lower bracts 

 nearly a foot long and broad ; upper crowded, persistent ; flowers biseriate, 20-30 

 or more to a bract. Calyx 1-1^ in.j lobes three, linear, loosely cohering. Corolla 

 i in. Fruit trigonous, 3 by IJ in. Seeds i-J in. diam. smooth, brown, sub- 

 globose. 



2. nx. nepalensis, Wall, in Boocb. Fl. Ind. ed.Wall. & Conrey, ii. 492 ; 

 stem short stout ovoid, leaves sessile on the sheath, bracts large ovate 

 many-fld. dull purple, calyx 3-cleft, petal obcordate with a large mucro 

 shorter than the calyx, fruit oblong subcoriaceous. Horan. Prodr. 41. 



Lower hills of Nepal, Wallich. 



