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CANNA patens. 
Spreading-flowered Indian-shot. 
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MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CANNE. Jussieu gen. 62, 
CANNER. Brown prod. 1. 307, in obs. HHI.; ubi Scrramt- 
NEIS distinguitur. \ 
CANNA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 206. 
C. peitens, limbi interioris corolla labio superiore trifido; laciniis equalibus, 
ovatis, patentibus; unguibus longis; labio inferiore bifido, revoluto: 
foliis ovatis, lanceolatis. Roscoe MSS; (ex angl. vers.) 
Canna patens. Roscoe in trans. linn. soc. 8.338; et in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1.1. 
Canna indica. Curtis’s magaz. 454; (exclusis synonymis ). 
Canna indica; 5. patens; petalis interioribus reflexis coccineis, nectarii la- 
cinia revoluta lutea lineolis rubris irrorata. Hort. Kew. 1.1. Willd. sp. pl. 
13. 
We have been fayoured with the above specific character 
of the subject of this article by Mr. Roscoe, who continues 
to afford a portion of his literary leisure to the eluci- 
dation of the natural family where our plant belongs, and 
to which he has already so materially contributed. It is his 
intention before long to communicate to the botanic world 
the very considerable additions he has made to several of the 
Monandrous genera, particularly Canna, Hepycuium, and 
CurcuMA. | 
We agree decidedly with that gentleman in considering 
the present plant as of the species intended by Messrs. So- 
lander and Dryander in the Hortus Keivensis by patens. 
The native place does not appear to be known; it is left 
in blank in Hortus Kewensis. 
By Willdenow, Canna patens has been identified with 
Canna chinensis of his “ Enumeratio;’ where however the 
description is far from precise or satisfactory, and leaves us 
in doubt as to the reality of their being of the same species. 
At all events the synonyms adduced by that botanist from 
the works of Rumphius and Van Rheede do not belong to 
our plant. 
