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specimens are still extant at the Linnean Society and at Eew. 

 Eoscoe was the first to clearly separate as a species the common 

 Canna of India and other regions of the Old World, which he 

 called Cm orientate, from the Canna indica of the West Indies. 



Bouche. — Between 1830 and 1850 the two Bouches, father 

 and son, paid great attention to the cultivation of Cannas at 

 Berlin. In 1833 the younger Bouche wrote a paper on the genus 

 in the eighth volume of the " Linna?a t " in which he estimates the 

 number of species at forty-eight, of which he had thirty- seven in 

 cultivation. In 1843 he was appointed inspector of the Berlin 

 garden, and in 1844 he contributed a paper to the eighteenth 

 volume of the " Linnaea," in which he characterises as genera 

 Eury stylus and Distemon, estimating the number of species of 

 Canna at eighty-two, of Eurystylus at two, and of Distemon at 

 seven. Of many of the species, as understood by Bouche, there 

 are type specimens from the collection of Auerswald in the 

 herbarium of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. 

 The account of the genus in Horaninow's " Prodromus of the 

 ScitamineaV' published at St. Petersburg in 1862, is taken 

 almost entirely from Bouche's papers. 



Annee. — From 1840 to about 1865 the principal cultivator 

 of Cannas and raiser of new forms was M. Annee, who, after 

 travelling in South America, settled at Passy, near Paris, and 

 finally removed to Nice. He paid special attention to the tall 

 species of true Cannas, and made these so popular for decorative 

 purposes that M. Andre states that in 1861 above twenty thousand 

 tufts of Canna Anncei were used in the parks and squares of 

 Paris. This Canna Anncei was raised in 1848 from seeds of 

 C. nepalensis, fertilised probably with the pollen of some other 

 species. It is fully described, with an uncoloured woodcut, by 

 M. Andre in the Hemic Horticolc for 1861, p. 469. The type 

 has a slender rootstock ; stems reaching a height of 12 to 13 

 feet ; long internodes ; oblong-acute leaves reaching a length 

 of 2 feet ; a long, erect peduncle, and ample panicle of many 

 erecto-patent racemes ; ternate flowers, and three oblanceolate 

 outer staminodia, scarcely larger than those of C. indica, 

 salmon-yellow or orange-yellow or tinged with rose-red. From 

 this have originated a large number of the tall garden forms 

 grown for the sake of their foliage, with leaves ranging from 

 tender green to red-purple. M. Andre compares it with C. 



