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about 12 in a cluster, yellowish-white, 14 in. long. Calyx 5-toothed at 
the apex. Petal ovate, half as long as the calyx. Fruit oblong-trigo- 
nous, seedless, bright yellow when ripe, 3—4 in. long, the flesh fit to eat 
without cooking.—Trew, Pl. Sel. t. 21-23 ; Baker in Annals Bot. vii. 
211; Kew Bulletin, 1894, 250. 
Var, M. paradisiaca, Linn. Sp, Plant. ed. 2, 1477. Male flowers and bracts less 
deciduous. Fruit 4—1 ft., with firmer and less saccharine pulp, not fit to eat without 
cooking.—Trew, Pl. Sel. t. 18-20; Kew Bulletin, 1894, 250 and 232 with fig. M. 
eliffortiana, Linn. Musa Cliff. 1, t. 1. 
Tropical Africa. Universally cultivated, ascending to 6000-7000 ft. For 
details, see Kew Bulletin, 1894, 252; Warburg in Engl. Pü. Ost-Afr. B. 91. 
The special African forms are:— 
Var. Massoni, Baker. N early allied to M. Cavendishii, Lamb., with a shorter 
trunk, petiole and panicle than in the type, and oblong small slightly curved saccharine 
fruits—M. Massoni, Sagot in Journ, Soc. Nat. Hort. France, 1887, 293. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon. 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
Var, vittata, Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 5402. Leaves pinnately variegated with 
bands of white. Bracts bright red inside. Fruits 6-8 in. long, with vertical stripes 
of white and green.—Kew Bulletin, 1894, 250 with fig. M. vittata, Ackerm. in Flore 
des Serres, t, 1510-1513. 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, brought into cultivation by Ackermann 
& Mann, 
Var. sanguinea, Welw. ex Ridley in Journ. Bot. 1887, 134, Trunk and leaves 
more or less tinged with bright red. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; Ponte de Luiz Gomez, Welwitsch, 
6446 ; Cazengo, cultivated, Welwitsch, 64468 ! “ Bananeira roxa.” 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
Order CXXXV. HÆMODORACEÆ. (By J. G. Baker.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or slightly irregular. Perianth 
corolline, with or without a tube above the ovary ; segments more or 
less distinctly bisexual. Stamens 6, all perfect in the Tropical African 
genera, inserted at the base of the perianth-lobes ; filaments filiform ; 
anthers versatile and dehiscing longitudinally, or basifixed and dehiscing 
by terminal pores. Ovary inferior, half-inferior, or superior, 3-celled ; 
ovules 1-2 or many in a cell; style filiform ; stigma capitate, 3-lobed. 
Fruit dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds globose or discoid, albuminous; 
embryo small.—Perennial herbs, sometimes densely hairy all over. 
Rootstock a rhizome or corm. Leaves very various. Flowers panicled, 
racemose or cymose, usually small and inconspicuous. 
Species 120, concentrated in Australia. 
Perianth with a cylindrical tube. Anthers dehiscing : 
longitudinally. Ovary superior . o: 1. SANSEVIERIA. 
Perianth with a very short tube. Anthers dehiscing by ter- 
minal pores. Ovary half-inferior 2. CYANASTRUM, 
