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erect, linear, 2-celled. Style filiform. Stigma capitate, 6-lobed. Fruit 

 an oblong, fleshy, trigonous or cylindrical many seeded berry. 



Species 35, tropics of the world. 



There are no specimens of any species in the collection I have received, although 

 many forms of Musa sapientum Linn, and M. paradisiaca Linn., occur in the Phil- 

 ippines in cultivation, and doubtless some endemic species other than the follow- 

 ing, the well-known Manila Hemp plant, Musa textilis, which I here describe from 

 plants cultivated under that name in the Botanic Gardens at Singapore. 



M. textilis Nee Ann. Cienc. Nat. 4 (1801) 123; K. Sebum. Pflanzenreich 1 

 (1900) 19. 



M. mindanensis Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1855) 588. 



M. sylvestris Colla Mem. Gen. Musa (1820) 58. 



M. troglodytarum var. textoria Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 247. 



M. abaca Perr. Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. 3 (1824) 130. 



Stems tufted, cylindric, about 6 m tall, and 19 cm in girth. Leaves 

 narrowly linear-oblong, cuspidate, 3 m long, 30 cm wide, nerves con- 

 spicuous, parallel, light green on both sides; petiole long. Spike pen- 

 dulous. Bracts lanceolate, obtuse, 20 cm long, 8 cm wide at the base, 

 coriaceous, dull-brownish-red. Bud acute. Female flowers in three or 

 four half-whorls, two rows in each whorl. Male flowers very numerous, 

 in double whorls, 6 flowers in one series, 3 in the other, white; outer 

 perianth-lobe 3 cm long, stiff, yellowish-white, base yellow, with three 

 cuspidate teeth, recurved ; inner thinner, saccate, pure white, 2 cm long, 

 apex truncate, with two denticulate lobes at the corners. Stamen- 

 filaments linear, white, 2 cm long. Anther a little shorter, linear, cells 

 brownish. Fruit subcylindric, narrowed at both ends. Seeds globose, 

 flattened, small. 



Philippines. 



Musa cocci nea Andr. is cultivated as an ornamental plant the entire inflo- 

 rescence cardinal-red, (Negros, Dumaguete, Elmer 7836), a native of southern 

 China and Cochinchina. 



Ravenala madagascariensis J. F. Gmel. the "traveller's palm" is cultivated 

 for ornamental purposes in Manila. 



