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Canna (Nearly thirty species all)

Nearly thirty species, all tropical or subtropical American, are included here. To those described on p. 262, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. grandiflora picta (large-flowered, painted). fl. yellow, spotted with red. 1885. A handsome and robust, garden variety. (R. H. 1885, p. 396.) C. liliiflora (Lily-flowered). fl. 4in. to 5in. long, Honeysuckle-scented, in a short, terminal raceme; perianth tubular, the three outer petaloid lobes linear-oblong, convolute, reflexed, tinged green, the three inner ones straight and extended, recurved at end, white, tinted yellowish-green. l. large, Musa-like, oblong, acuminate. Stems stout, erect. h. 6ft. to 10ft. A fine plant. (F.d.S. 1055-6; R. H. 1884, 132.) C. rosaeflora (rose-flowered). fl. magenta-red. 1885. Garden variety. (R. H. 1885, p. 396.)