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| CANNA unpica, var. maculata. 
Indian Shot : spotted-flowered variety. 
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MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nar. Onn. CANN. 
Gen. Cuar.—Anthera simplex, margini filamenti petaloidis affixa. Stylus 
spathulatus, adnatus tubo corollz ; stigma lineare. Capsula trilocularis, 
-_ trivalvis, semina plura.—Roxburgh. | 
Canna indica; foliis petiolatis anguste-ovatis, corollae hab interiore tri- 
fido, laciniis insequalibus iba guineas weap acutis erectis, labello 
lineari recurvato. 
C. indica, Roscoe, in Linn. Trans. v. vill. p. 338 —Arron, Hort. Kew. ed. as 
Ve ds ps 1. 
8. Floribus flavis 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 one 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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