24 IV. SCITAMINER. {Canna 
Trige m1. CANVE. 
10, CANNA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 654. 
1. C. orientalis Rose. Scit. t. 12 (1828); Baker in Gard. Chron. 
xiii. (1893), p. 43. 
C. indica L. Sp. Pl. (1753) 1 (pro parte); Ridl. in Journ. Bot. 
1887, p. 134; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 134. 
GoLunco ALTo.—Flowers deep scarlet; a herb 5 to 6 ft. with 
leaves deep green, shining above, not glaucous. Plentiful in reedy 
places near streams, and in damp shady woods, almost _always growing 
with a species of Costus. Banks of river Cuango, Oct. 1854, and in 
fr. March 1855. Quilombo, July 1856. Banks of Camballa, March 
1855. No. 6448. Plentiful on the presidium near streams, even 
forming thick handsome little woods 5 to 7 ft. high. In fl. March 
1857. No. 6448). An extremely social Canna, ubiquitous in damp 
places, stem 4 to 8 ft. high, flower scarlet, Sange ; wooded places on 
the river Coango. June 1857. Cou. Carp. 993, 
Trips iv. MUSE. 
11. MUSA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 655. 
1. M. sapientum L. Syst. ed. x. p. 1303 (1759). 
Var. sanguinea Welw. ex Ridl. in Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 134; 
Baker in Annals of Botany vii. p. 212 (1893) ; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 136. 
GoLunco ALTo.—Stem 5 to 8 ft. high, 3 to 4 in. in diam., cylindrical, 
lurid green, variegated all over especially at the base with blood-red 
marks and streaks. Leaves oblong-linear, 4 to 6 ft. long, 4 to 1 ft. 
broad, apex subobtuse mucronate, a deep blood-red above, pale purplish 
beneath with a whitish bloom, midrib greenish. Flowers not seen. A 
fine plant, cultivated in gardens and round Mandioca fields near Sange, 
plentiful at Ponte de Luiz Simées, where leaves were picked April 1856. 
Resembles on the whole the cultivated J. paradisiaca, but is somewhat 
smaller in all its dimensions. In April 1856 several large Mandioca 
fields were seen near Ponte de Luiz Simées, enclosed with this magnifi- 
cent plant ; all the individuals were however barren. The fruits were 
said to have the same deep purple colour. Nobody knew where the 
plant came from; those at Golungo Alto were introduced from 
Cazengo. No. 6446. 
CazEnco.—Called by the Portuguese Bananeira rora. Stem, leaves 
and fruit tinged with a deep blood-purple colour ; leaves glaucous- 
purplish beneath. Cultivated in rather damp places round houses. In 
leaf June 1855. No. 64460. 
2. M. ventricosa Welw. Apont. p. 545 and p. 587 No. 45 (1859); 
Ridl., Z.c.; Baker, lc. p. 206; Durand & Schinz, l.c., p. 136. 
Puneco AnDoneo.—Plant 8 to 10 ft. high, bulb 4 ft. in diameter. 
Flowers polygamo-dicecious ; lip entire not trifid. Leaf-stalks swollen 
and spongy at the base, in the adult plant 14 and even 3 ft. broad, 
23 in. thick, gradually narrowed upwards and thinner, and thus form- 
ing the bulbous base of the trunk. Bracts persistent, enveloping the 
fruit. Rather plentiful in damp rocky places on the preesidium, rarely 
fruiting. In flower, fruit and leaf May 1857, seen in flower as early as 
