S22 DESCRIPTION OF 



9. AlpiniaT CoraJla with interior border unikbiateo Anihermsked. Capsule 

 3-celled^ many-seeded. 



10. Globba. Filament long, slender^ incurved^ with tubular winged base,^ 

 Capsule one-celledj receptacles parietal; seeds many. 



I. CANNA. 



Gen. Char. Jfwif/ier single, attached to the edge of the petal-like filamentv 

 >Sf^Ze spatulate, growing to the tube of the corolla. Stigma Xm&diX-, CapsiU& 

 3-celledj 3-valved. Seeds several^ naked, 

 1, Canna indica. Linn. sp. pL ed. XVilUL I. 3, 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Segments of the inner Border of the corolla 

 lanceolate, and bidentate„ 

 Krishna-tamara of the Telingas, 

 Katu-bala, Rheed. mal. 1. t. 43. 

 Cannacorus. Rumpli, amh. 3. /. 71 . .'-U'/iijlA 



The red and yellow are common in eVery garden oVer India, and in- 

 flower all the year. The parts of the corolla are exactly alike in botho 

 The yellow variety of the Hortus Kewensis, C. lutea of Roscoe, must there«^ 

 fore be different, as the inner limb of the corolla is there bifid, 



CANNA INDICA. 



' ' ■ Katubalia. RViEfeo. Baun Tassibeh. Rumpk,- 



IJind. Sabbajaya, Sarvajaya. 

 '*' Bang. Sarbajaya. The red variety, Lai sarbajaya; 



Malab. Catiibala, Rana-celi. 



,^s!,<-.'i'.: :■'-/..;''■ ■ ■ Malay. Daneh-tasbih.- . . -j,, - .■•/:• 



In a catalogue of Indian plants (As. Res. Vol. IV. p» 236.) Vanaceli is glVen as the Sanscrit 

 name, of the Canna. That name seems to hare been assumed by Sir William Jo^nes .from the Hortus 

 Malabaricus of Van Rheede; who obserres, that the Brdhmanas of Malabar call this plant Rana 

 Queri. On the plate, the word engraved in iVa^an characters is Hawa-ce//, whence Sir William 

 Jones appears to have deduced the Sanscrit Vanaceli. But the word, as exhibited by Yak 

 Rheede, corresponds to the vernacular name stated by him, Katubala, answering likewise to the 

 Portuguese- Figueira de Mato, and signifying wild plantaia or banana: the plant being so deuomi" 

 nated from the fancied similarity of the leaves,- 



