corniculo (ante anthefin pro retinaculo ad retinendam laciniam 

 interiorem hijerviente) appendiculatis ; interiore parum bre- 

 viore ovato-oblonga concava ; bacca oblonga, comprcfla, 

 hinc gibba inde plana, coriaceo-fungofa, 3-loculari, fub 

 cortice vifco limpido tenaciflimo fcatente ; feminibus (qua 

 coram habuimus finapeos minora ; reflius rudimenta J numero- 

 fis, fecundum angulum internum fingulorum loculorum 

 gemina ordine afiixis, in vifco limpido nidulantibus. G. 



MUSA coccinea. Roxburgh PL Corom. MS. cum tab. pel. hied. 

 Tab. pitl. natural! minor, piclore Chinenfi Cantoni effigiata, in 

 Muf. Bank/. Bot. Repof. tab. 47. Lil. a Redout % tab. 307, 

 308. Perfoon Syn. 1. 343. IVilld. Hort. Berol. en. 1026. 

 6> PL 4. 895. 



MUSA uranofcopos. Loureiro. Fl. Cochinch. 645 ; nee tamen Rum- 

 phii ; ut ille et nuperius Martyn (in Mill. DiB. afeipfo editojub 

 Musa Troglodytarum) volunt. 



Desc. Stem three to four feet high, about the diameter of a 

 man's wrift, fheathed by long convolute petioles ; leaves about 

 three feet long, with an oblong entire blade about five inches 

 broad, few, diftant, divergent, terminal ones extending beyond 

 the inforefcence, which is 6 — 10 inches long; fpathes tipped 

 with yellow, three to four inches long, gradually decreafing ; 

 corolla green-reddiih yellow, an inch in length, with the diameter 

 of a large quill ; berry about two inches long, according to 

 Loureiro fcarlet and not eatable. Like the reft of its family) 

 dies after fruftificatinn, and is continued by fuckers from the 

 root. Native of China and Cochinchina. Dr. Roxburgh 

 fays that it is cultivated as an exotic in the Botanic Garden at 

 Calcutta, where it rarely produces perfect feed, any more than 

 with us in Europe. We could find no traces of a fixth fertile 

 flamen in the female corolla, nor of a fixth fterile one in the 

 male. Loureiro is the firfl who has defcribed the fpecies, 

 but is miftaken in his fynonyms, as is Dr. Martyn as to the plant 

 that writer intended. The fertile ftigma is erroneoufly repre- 

 fented both in the diflections given in Dr. Roxburgh's drawing 

 and in the plate of the Botanift's Repofitory. Requires to be 

 kept in the bark-bed of a ftove, where it flowers from Chriftmas 

 to March. Said to have been introduced into this country by 

 Mr. Evans, of Stepney, in 1792. We are obliged to Lord 

 Stanley for the fpecimen from which.our drawing was made. 



Car. 



