Canna.] 
CXXXIX. CANNACEyE. 
29T 
Order CXXXIX. CANNACE/E. 
Tall herbs; rhizome short, not aromatic. Stems leafy. 
Leaves large thin, oblong or ovate acute petioled, sheathing at 
base. Raceme lax terminal simple or branching. Flowers showy 
red or yellow. Sepals 3, free, superior, oblong or lanceolate acute. 
Corolla-tube cylindric, lobes 3, lanceolate. Stamens in a cylindric 
tube with three unequal petaloid lobes. Anther i-celled, adnate 
to the edge of one of the smaller lobes. Ovary inferior, 3-celled; 
style adnate to the stamen tube. Fruit globose or oblong muricate, 
capsular. Seeds large globose, smooth, black, no aril. One genus, 
Canna Linn. Species 20 to 30, all tropical American, one or two 
now widely scattered over the Tropics. Many species and hybrids 
cultivated in gardens. 
1 . CANNA, Linn. 
(1) C. orientalis Rose. PL Scitam. t. 12. 
Stems 3 to 4 ft. tall. Leaves ovate acuminate, 12 to 14 in. 
long, 3-5 to 7 in. wide; petiole sheathing, 6 in. long. Raceme a 
panicle of 2 or 3 racemes 9 to 12 in. long. Lower bracts linear 
acute, 4 in. long, -5 in. wide or less. Floral bracts ovate truncate, 
■5 in. long and as wide. Flowers 8 or more, sub-sessile. Sepals 
lanceolate acute, -25 in. long, lengthening in fruit, pinkish or green. 
Corolla-tube *25 to *3 in. long, lobes linear acute, red, 1 in. long, 
■1 in. wide. Staminal lobes oblanceolate-spathulate, red, 1*5 in. 
long, *25 in. wide. Lip linear-spathulate, r in. long, red with 
yellow centre or with yellow spots. Capsule oblong, 75 to 1 in. 
long, black muricate with short processes crowned by the enlarged 
calyx. Seeds globose black. Hab. Common in waste ground and 
old gardens, often reappearing when abandoned cultivations are 
dug over, Singapore, Malacca, etc. Certainly not wild here, but 
now widely distributed over the Old World, probably native of 
India. Native name : Sebiak or Sebek, often called Pisang Sebiak. 
Use : Leaves used for wrapping up parcels. 
C. Warszewiczii Dietr. in Otto et Dietr. Allg. Gart. Zeit. 290; 
Bot. Mag. t. 4854. Established itself for some time in waste ground 
in Singapore. Stem 3 ft. tall, with the leaves, ovaries, calyx and 
bracts deep purple blood red, and pruinose. Leaves 1 ft. long, 
6 in. wide. The flower is scarlet, the corolla-lobes broader than 
in C. orientalis, and the upper one notched at the tip. Capsule 
black and covered with warts. Native of Costa Rica and South 
Brazil. 
Order CXL. LOWIACEyE. 
Tufted stemless plants. Leaves rather stiff oblong or elliptic, 
petioled. Flowers solitary or on a short panicle from the rhizome. 
