drawing was made from a plant received from Messrs. 

 Veitoh that flowered at Kew in the temperate house last 



summer. 



A monograph of the genus Musa is much wanted. There 

 is an excellent paper, by the late Dr. Sagot, in the Journal 

 of the Society of Horticulture of France for 1887, and, 

 Kurz began m the Journal of the Agricultural and Horti- 

 cultural Society of India, for 1878, a paper which was cut 

 short in an early stage by his death, but there is nothing 

 of the character of a botanical monograph of later date 

 than Horamnow's " Prodromus Monographic Scitami- 

 nearum," which was published in 1882, and it is now 

 quite out of date so far as this genus is concerned. 



JDescb. Trunk cylindrical, reaching a length of nine feet 

 and a diameter of seven inches in the plant drawn, and 

 producing suckers like M. sapientum. Leaves few in a 

 tutt ; blade oblong, bright green, eight or nine feet long by 

 aoout two teet broad, with the two sides hanging down from 

 the green midrib ; petiole stout, a foot long, with the edges 

 winged down to the base. Peduncle stout? arcuate, a foot 

 ZtJP Sm ° 0t \ tw ° inches in diameter; spike dense, 

 oftn,^ ^ 1 ^' ^ op a f00t and h alf long ; clusters 

 tilZl * tW ,° r f0ur > containing each twelve or 



ciduons Z erS ar T gG ? in two rows > ^btended by a de- 

 inche o °r Ce ° 1 8 i ° ad ° bl0n S bl wnbract eight or twelve 

 Itent InT ^l 6 C u SterS ei ^ hfc or te *> their bracts per- 

 tTotnZ, r ' mhnCated ' Gal V* wliitish, spathaceous, 

 ovli?t F' ^-^thed at the apex. Produced petal 



T:;iTTt^Tl: r c r ite v°^ r th \f x - 



trip-onnn« ok f?v • e cal ^ x - Unripe fruit oblong- 

 -J G BafeT mCheS lon - ^ ^^ in diameter * 



Thetractls'from oninff? f"* 5 3 ^ stamen of male flower rather enlarged. 

 rom one of the lower clusters, drawn half its length and breadth. 



