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CANNA Lamberti. 
The new Indian Reed. 
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MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CANNES, Jussieu gen. 62, CANNEX. Brown prod. 1. 307, 
in obs. IHD.; ubi ad SCLTAMINEARUM ordine distinguuntur. 
CANNA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 206. 
C. Lamberti, foliis impubibus, corolle laciniis interioribus, ternis: labello 
oblongo erecto-patente integro. 
-Canna Lamberti. Lindley MSS. 
Canna indica. Ruiz et Pavon flor. peruv. 1.1; (affirmante specimine arche- 
typo Herbario Lambertiano asservato). Non aliorum. 
Planta 13-pedalis. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, superiora minora, 
margine concolore: Shige triflora (vel exemplare spontanco multiflora) folio 
superiore brevior. lores omnind EUPHORBIE® punicee colore rutile. 
Bractea exterior longitudine calycis, oblonga, obtusa, membranacea; interior 
lanceolata concava. Sepala (segmenta calycina) farinosa, laciniis perianthii 
(corolla) exterioribus 3plo breviora, viridi-purpurea. Perianthii (coroll) 
lacinie exteriores lanceolate, concave, interioribus breviores: due antice 
paulo majores; interiores terne, suberecte, oblongo-lanceolate: labello 
erecto-patente, majore, subundulato integerrimo. Germen oblongum tuber- 
culosum. Stylus spathulatus, stamine longior. 
A new gay-flowered addition to our hothouses, raised 
by Mr. Lambert from seed collected in the Island of Trini- 
dad. ‘The plant blossomed in May last at Boyton House 
for the first time in England, when the sample exhibited in 
the annexed figure was kindly sent to us. The red of the 
corolla is peculiar, and resembles very closely the colour of 
the “ Scarlet Spurge” (HupHorsia punicea), but is distinct 
from that of any other Indian Reed previously known in 
our gardens. 
That our plant is the Canna indica of the Flora Peru- 
viana, we are assured by the prototype sample in the rich 
Herbarium amassed by the public-spirited zeal of Mr. Lam- 
bert, and which sample had been transmitted by M. Pavon, 
one of the authors of the above Flora. The true Canna 
indica is however a very distinct species, and differs at first 
sight from the present, in having a revolute label with a 
notch at the end, instead of an upright one without any 
notch, though the two agree in having only three inner seg- 
ments to the corolla, and not four as in patens and coccinea. 
