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iment that our 
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CANNA edulis. 
Lisculent-rooted Indian-shot of Peru. 
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MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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C. edulis, limbi interioris labio summo tripartito erecto, laciniis ovali-oblongis 
retusis laté unguiculatis, media plurimtim breviore; labello lineari-ob- 
longo recurvato retuso: caule punicante. 
Canna indica. Ruiz et Pavon flor. peruv. 1.1; (non aliorum.) 
Radix tuberosa, oblonga rotundaque, oculata. Culmi plures, erecti 
geniculati teretes (5-G6-pedales sanguineo-rubentes. Don in litt.) Folia al- 
terna, ovata oblongaque, utringue attenuata, glabra (pulchre glaucescentia 
Don.) nitidiuscula, lineis parallelis inflexis striata; tenera convoluta: peti- 
olis convolutis, Racemus terminalis simplex. Bractex spatheformes; supe- 
riores ovate; inferiores longissime, lanceolate. Cal. lutescens rubescensque. 
Cor. coccinea : laciniis exterioribus subequalibus. Caps. scabra, echinata, 
trigona, trisulea. Semina globosa nigra nitida. Ruiz et Payon loc. cit. 
This fine plant, we believe the only one of the species 
that has appeared in our collections, was raised in the hot- 
house at Boyton, in Wiltshire, by seed taken from samples 
collected by the authors of the Flora Peruviana, as Mr. 
Lambert informs us, nearly thirty years it was 
committed to the ground. This seed been collected 
ne e Canna iridiflora 
cess of this expe- 
iched with two of 
known in them. 
the finest species 
We are infor 
med by Mr. Don, the meritorious secretary 
Society, that the stem of the plant at Boy- 
ton is about the thickness of a man’s finger, from five to 
six feet high, and of a blood red colour; that the leaves are 
broadly elliptic, of a beautiful bluish green with a purplish 
edge, the root remarkably thick and fleshy, and composed 
of oblong cylindrical tubers. 
There is no doubt that the sample collected by Don José 
Pavon in Peru, and now deposited in the Lambertian Her- 
barium, belongs to this species, and not to Canna Lamberti; 
(see the note under that title in the Appendix to the present 
volume.) — 
to the Linnean S 
