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CANNA iNDicA, mr, maculata. 
Indian Shot : spotted-flowered variety. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA.^Nat. Oed. CANNM. 
Gen. Char. — Anthera simplex, margini filamenti petaloidis affixa. Stylus 
spathulatus, adnatus tubo coroUae ; stigma lineare. Capsula trilocularis, 
trivalvis, semina plura. — Roxburgh. 
Canna indica; foliis petiolatis anguste-ovatis, corollas limbo interiore tri- 
fido, laciniis inasqualibus lanceolato-spathulatis acutis erectis, labello 
linear! recurvato. 
C. indica, Roscoe, in Linn. Trans, v. viii. p. 338.— Aiton, Hort. Ketv. ed. 2. 
V. i. p. 1. 
/2. Floribusjlavis rubro-maculatis. 
Plant 4 feet or more in height ; stems erect, simple. Leaves about 8 inches 
long, ovate, or somewhat inclining to lanceolate, acuminate at the point, 
and tapering down into a more or less sheathing footstalk at the base. 
The upper leaves broadly oval. 
Flowers in a scarcely compounded terminal raceme. Pedicels hardly any. 
Bracteas ovate, greenish. Germen subglobose, green, tuberculated. Ca- 
lyx of 3 greenish, ovate, erect leaflets, pale at the margin. Exterior limb 
of the corolla of 3 lanceolate, acuminated, carinated segments, of a red- 
dish-brown colour, green at the extremity. Inner limb of the corolla 
having the upper lip of three erect, unequal, between lanceolate and spa- 
thulate, acute, entire segments, of a yellow color, spotted with red ; the 
intermediate segment the narrowest. Labellum linear, revolute, spotted 
on the inner surface with red, entirely yellow without. Filament in shape 
like the labellum, yellow, with a few spots of red, erect, revolute only at 
the extremity. Anther linear, yellow. Style linear, erect, of on^ uniform 
tawny colour. , 
Formerly, every individual of this genus which was culti- 
vated in our gardens, went under the appellation of Canna in- 
dica ; now, this name is scarcely so much as spoken of, and 
the true species thus designated seems to be almost unknown. 
By the true species, I would be understood to mean that of 
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