nous, round, stout, erect, parallel to each other, and ranged 
in a row within the upper lip of the perianth. A large 
quantity of transparent, colourless, deliquescent jelly is 
discharged from the faux; between the style and the lower 
lip of the perianth. Male Flower. Anthers twice as long 
as the filaments, their apices reflexed, and projecting 
beyond the upper lip of the perianth, bilobular, the lobes 
narrow, red, laid along the face of the flat linear connechve, 
towards its edges, and bursting anteriorly ; pollen yellow, 
abundant, granules spherical. Pistil abortive, style subu- 
late, equal in length to the filaments, and having a small 
dry sitgma. Female Flower.—Filaments rather shorter 
than in the male flower, with scarcely any appearance of 
abortive anthers on their conical summits. Stigma large, 
white, slimy, capitate, irregularly and incompletely lobed. 
Style stout, erect, twice the length of the abortive stamens, 
and two-thirds of the length of the upper lip of the perianth. 
Germen angular, three-celled. Ovules very numerous, 
globular, shortly pedicellate, their attachment being in two 
rows to a central placenta in each cell. Graham. 
Tas. 3849. Musa superba, on a very reduced scale, from a sketch sent 
by Mr. James Macnas. Fig. 1. Female Flower, nat. size. 
Tap. 8850. Bractea, with its Male Flowers, nat. size, partially covered 
with the gelatinous fluid, which copiously exudes from the blossoms. Fig. 
1. Single Male Flower, nat. size. 
