The plate in Leonhart Fuchs’s unpublished book ‘The Vienna Codex’ (compiled between 1536 and 1566) representing Canna indica may well be the first illustration of the genus in botanical literature. The plate is annotated as ‘Gladiolus indicus or Indischer Schwertel’, and numbered ‘Cod. 11122, p. 321’. This plate has been reproduced in 2001 in the book on Botanical Illustration by Lack (see also Meyer et al. 1999).