GMOS 206 
ble siveco CANNA gigantea. 
wons : Tall Indian Reed. 
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MONANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. CANNm. Jussieu gen. 62. CANNEE. Brown prod. 807, in 
obs. III.; ub? 2 Sc1TAMINEIs distinguitur. 
CANNA. Anth. simplex, margini filamenti petalodis affixa. Stylus 
Seton adnatus tubo corolle: stig. lineare. Caps. 3-loc., 3-valv.: sent. 
plura. Roxb. in asiat. research. 11. 322; ( Calcutta edit.). 
Rad. tuberosa, repens. Caulis herbaceus petiolis va, inantibus tectus. Fol. 
alterna vaginantia, juniora convoluta, @ nervo medio simplict emittentia 
utringue nervos parallelos. Flores laxé spicati terminales. Juss. 
C. gigantea, limbo interiore semicirculari-4-radiato reflexo-patente, lacinia 
ima dextrorsim obliquata inzquilobo-retusa; filamento longé ultra 
antheram producto recurvatoque. 
Canna gigantea. Redouté liliac. 331. 
Canna patens. osc. in trans. linn. soc. 8. 338? judicantes ex nuperius 
' dictis ab eodem in vol. 10. p. 272 operis citatt; at certé non Canna in- 
dica }. patens, edit. prioris Hort. Kew., C. patentis jure archetypum ; 
cujus specimen eatat in Herb. Banks. ; 
Rhizoma tuberoso-carnosum, bulbiceps, slolany eum. Caules 3-4-pedales. 
Vasine radicales et petioli vaginosi cuticula arachnoided decidua alba obducti. 
Fol. majora lamina modd 2-pedalt, elliptico-v. ovato-lanceolata, cuspidata. 
Racemus spicatus, multiflorus, distans, floribus seepits: geminis: pedunc. 
nie germine, bracted aridd fuscd'ad singulos. Germ. 3-gono-rotundun. 
Cal. semuncialis v. ultra, subcoloratus, farinosus, 3-partitus, persistens, seg= 
mentis hinc distantioribus, 1 submajore. Cor. tubuloso-divisa, ultra tubune 
duplex, 3-uncialis, mintato-coccinea, immaculata ; tubus communis brevis ; 
limbus exterior sesquiuncialis, nitens, 3-partitus, erecto-connivens regularis, 
laciniis linearibus lanceolatis striatulis involuto-concavis, fissura antica. pro- 
JSundiis divisis : interior intensits coloratus, opacus, 4-partitus, 2 uncias cunt 
dimidio altus, laciniis pro longitudine limbi exterioris imbricato-coherentibus 
nisi ad ventrem ubi 4. hinc a proximé sinistréd ad tubum communem usque 
soluta est, omnibus in labium supernum obliquantibus, $ similibus subequalibus 
lanceolato-spathulatis, 4". inferiore subdifformi saturatius colorata, non ut 
pleriumque opposita filamento neve latere deatro longits a proxima divisd ac 
‘alie invicem inter se. Fil. adnatum limbo interiori sub labio ad ejusdem 
_ divisuras usque, latius laciniis, antrorsum inclinatum, ligulato-lanceolatum, 
obtusum. Stylus aurantiacus lineari-spathulatus 2 plano adnatus faciet lateris 
sinistri filamenti, lucidus, crassiusculus, de paulo infra antheram solutus, mar- 
gine sinistro rectiore: stigma apex continuus luteus glandulosus puberulus sub- 
truncatus subceequalis anthere. 
ee eee eee 
It has been the lot of several species of this genus to 
have been ranged in the various systems of vegetables, by 
characters too vague or too scanty to ensure them from 
obscurity and uncertainty. By a passage in the observations 
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