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Musa SUPERBA. Supers PLANTAIN TREE. 
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Class dua ‘Order: * 
Poryeamia Monamcia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Musacee. ) 
Generic Charac 
Perigonium epigynum, bilabiatum, labium inferius tubu- 
losum, postice usque ad basin fissum, apice quinquelobum, 
superius concavum, nanum, amplectens. Stamina 5, sexto 
postico abortivo. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula in 
loculorum angulo centrali plurima, biseriata, horizontalia,— 
anatropa. Stylus crassus; stigma infundibuliformi-clava-_ 
tum, breviter sexlobum. Bacea oblonga, angulata, trilo- 
cularis ; seminibus plurimis in pulpa nidulantibus, sepius 
effoetis farcta. Semina depressiuscula subglobosa, testa 
crustacea, atra, ad umbilicum impressa. Embryo ortho- 
tropus, fungiformis, in axi albuminis subfarinosi, extremitate 
radiculari umbilicum attingente, centripeta-——Herbe geron- 
togee tropice et subtropice, in Americam introducte, gt- 
gante ; trunco e petiolorum vaginis longissimis, scapum ra- 
dicalem, solo apice liberum, floriferum velantibus conflato, 
lamina foliorum amplissima, valde nervosa, floribus in axilla 
spatharum confertis, ebracteatis. Endl. hig: 
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Specific | Character and Synonyms. | 
Musa* superba ; subacaulis, spica nutante, bracteis corda- 
to-ovatis concavis obtusis inferioribus persistantibus, 
perianthii labio superiore 3-partito lateribus revolutis, 
labio inferiore multo breviore 3-lobo lobo intermedio 
’ subulato 
* “The word is corrupted, or rather refined from Mauz, the Egyptian 
appellation of this valuable plant, and is made classical in the works of 
Linnaus, by an allusion to Musa, a Muse; or with much greater propriety, 
to Antonius Musa, the physician to Aucustus, who, having written on 
some Botanical subjects, may justly be commemorated in the above name. 
Smith in Rees’ Cycl. 
VOL, XIV. mF 
