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CANNA iridiflora. 
Peruvian Canna. 
<a 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. CANNE. Jussieu gen. 62; (SCITAMINEAS includens. 
CANNES. Brown prod. 1. 307. in obs. HI; (ScrTAMINEAS 
distinguens. ) 
CANNA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 206. 
en eee 
iridiflora, racemis nutantibus geminatis, 
a reeinne! labello bifido. 
Canna iridiflora. Ruiz et Pavon Jl. peruv. 1. 1, t. 1. Jig. 2. Persoon syn. 
41.1. Curtis’s magaz. 1968. é 
Culmi plures triulnares erecti (Ruiz et Pay. I. 
Fol. laminé ovato-oblongé, longis acuminata 
land decidua albicante; (in plantis sub celo nostr 
floribus secundis cernuis tubx- 
c.) teretes virides vaginati. 
cusprde tortiusculo, subtis 
ro. cultis lana obsoleta, aut 
cua). Spatha ter- 
minalis, monophylla, foliacea, cucullato-convoluta, erecta, sessilis, racemo 
plurimiim brevior. Racemus mutans, geminato-multiflorus, pendulo-secun- 
dus, nunc divisus, | florum paribus distantibus: flores roseo-puniced ( altero 
cujusque fere paris in. exempl. nostro abortive) pedicellis brevibus obesis: 
bractea exterior latior appressa brevior part singulo communis, una v. et 
altera interior tenuissima elongata flori cuique propria: rachis communis viri- 
dis glabra subflecuosa pro sedibus florum alterné emarginata. Cal. 3-phyllus, 
subcoloratus, glaber, corollé pluriés brevior, erecto-connivens, persistens, fo- 
liolis lanceolatis inequalibus. ; Cor. tubata, cernua, recta, subregularis, 5- 
unicalis v. circa: tubus inferior pallescens, subtriuncialis, limbo exteriore 
longior ; limbus exterior trifidus, equalis, mtertore % brevior v. ultra, turbi- 
nato-connivens, lacintis erectis lineart-lanceolatis convoluto-concavis tubo pro 
longitudine gradatim variante adnatis; limbus interior venoso-striatus, 4-fidus, 
turbinato-campanulatus, recurvato-patens, Sesquiuncialis vel circiter, m tubo 
superiori sessilis, laciniis tmequaliter inter se coneretis, 3 spathulato-ovatis sub- 
aqualibus apice rotundatis preter uname mequilobo-retusam integris, 4". (la- 
bello) subdifformi, a ceteris longins divisd, cuneato-oblonga, profunde bifida. 
Fil. petaloideum, albido-rubens, angustius ligulatum, obtusum de superne ad 
usque basin anthere. spiraliter revolvendum ; anth. lutea, linearis, Stylus 
albicans, maculis striisque puniceis pictus, lingulatus, mequilateris, strictus, 
apice et latere altero stigmatoso pubescens aique curvior, ceterum nitidus. 
Germ, viridi-rubescens, cuncato-oblongum, obsoletd 3-gonwn muricibus callosis 
terctibus rectis obtusis Aensissime stipatis contectum, 3-loc., ovulis in locu- 
lamento singulo plurimis biseriatis globosis. 
aa i ta oe ee ee 
A beautiful and singular Species, much cultivated in 
the gardens of Peru, of which country it is probably a 
native. It is not, we believe, in any other European col- 
lection than that of Mr. Lambert at Boyton; where it was 
