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CANNA PATENS. 
Spreading-flowered Indian Shot. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNI A—Nat. Ord. CANNES, J8n— CANN^, Jms. 
Gen. CuAn.—'Anthera simplex^ margine filamenti petaloidis affixa. Stylus 
spathulatus adnatus tubo coroUae : stigma Hneare. Capsula 3-locul*aris, 
3-valvis. Semina plura. — Roxburgh. 
Canna patens ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, limbi interioris perianthio labio 
superiore trifido, laciniis sequalibus oblongo-spathulatis, erecto-pa- 
tentibus labello revoluto apice bifido. 
Canna patens, Roscoe, in Linn. Trans, v. viii. p. 338. ? — Ait. Hort. Ketv. 
ed. 2. V. i. p. 1. — Bot. Reg. t. 576'— Roscoe, Monandr. PI. cum Ic 
Canna indica, § patens. Ait. Hort. Ketv. ed. 1. v. i. p. 1. — Willd. Sp. PI, 
V. i. p. 3. 
Canna indica. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 554. (excl. the syn.) 
Canna aureo-vittata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 449. 
Canna limbata, Bot. Reg. t. 771. 
Stems 3-4 feet high. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, subacuminated, the edges 
distinctly marked with a diaphanous border. 
Flowers racemed, arising from a large, sheathing, green, powdery, general 
bractea, and each blossom from a broad, short and obtuse partial one. 
Calyx of 3 ovate, pale green, powdery, erect segments. Corolla tubular, 
below expanding into a double limb, of which the exterior consists of 3 
lanceolate, erecto-patent, yellow-green, equal segments, involute at their 
margins : the interior bilabiate ; upper lip of 3 equal, oblongo-spathulate, 
erecto-patent laciniae, scarlet, with the edge and the nerve at the back 
often yellow, the apex frequently notched ; the lower lip or labellum ra- 
ther broadly linear, revolute, yellow, spotted with scarlet, obtusely bi- 
fid at the point. Stamen : — filament much resembling the labellum, and 
revolute at the extremity, bearing the anther at the side : germen round- 
ish, tuberculated, green ; style erect, plane, linear, or a little dilated up- 
wards. Stigma terminal, transverse. 
Nothing is more true than the observation made by Mr 
Gawler in the Botanical Register, that " it has been the lot 
of several species of this genus to have been arranged in the 
various systems of vegetables, by characters too vague, or too 
scanty, to insure them from obscurity and uncertainty." In 
these respects, the present individual has been peculiarly un- 
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