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glauca, and Regel classifies it as a variety of that species ; but 

 its affinity seems to me to be with C. speciosa and C. nepalcnsis, 

 the only tall Old World species. Another valuable hybrid 

 which was raised by M. Annee is described and figured in 

 colours by Andre in the Bevue Horticole for 18G2, p. 371. 

 This has stems not more than 4 or 5 feet high, brilliant scarlet 

 flowers, as large as those of C. Warccwiczii, and orbicular leaves, 

 which are either claret-brown or green. It was raised from 

 C. discolor, already crossed for several generations. 



Kolb. — Up to 18G3, so far as I know, all the hybrids were 

 between different species and varieties of the true Cannas, but 

 in this year iridiflora was crossed with Warccwiczii. The pro- 

 duct was a very fine form, closely resembling iridiflora in the 

 size and colour of its staminodia, but with the tube much 

 shortened. This, I believe, was first raised at Paris, but was 

 widely distributed by M. Kolb, inspector of the botanic garden 

 at Munich. It was first called iridiflora hybrida, and afterwards 

 Ehemanni. It is figured under the name of iridiflora in the 

 Revue Horticole for 1875, p. 291, and there is a fine coloured 

 picture of it by Miss North in her gallery at Kew (No. 839). 



Regel. — In 1866 Dr. Edouard von Regel monographed the 

 known species in the supplement of the " Annual Seed List of the 

 Imperial Botanic Garden," p. 83. He took substantially the same 

 view of species-limitation as Roscoe. 



Count Leoncc de Lambcrtye. — In 1869 Count Leonce de 

 Lambertye contributed to the Revue Horticole (pp. 25-29) a, 

 valuable paper on the best cultivated Cannas known at that 

 time in the French gardens. He says that at Paris the rage for 

 the tall kinds with ornamental foliage, which began in 1856, 

 had by 1869 quite died out. He classifies the forms under three 

 groups, viz.: first, tall species with large ornamental leaves ; second, 

 forms grown for the sake of their beautiful flowers ; and, third, 

 forms with leaves and flowers both highly decorative. He gives 

 under each of these groups a list of the types which he specially 

 recommends, with a short description, the name of its raiser, and 

 the date of its origin. Upon this paper the account of the 

 cultivated Cannas in Nicholson's " Dictionary of Gardening " is 

 mainly based. Count Lambertye also contributed to the Revue 

 Horticole five years later (1874, pp. 106, 446) a second paper, 



