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The pulp is somewhat creamy in color, coarse and spongy, 
acid-sweet and of strong flavor, with more or less developed core. 
The average weight of a mature fruit is 170.51 grams. Seeds 
are absent. 
MUSA SAPIENTUM L. var. TUDLONG var. nov. Tudlong dato. Plate 
II, figs. 6-10. 
Plant reaches a height of from 230 to 260 cm and has a dia- 
meter of 14 cm at the base; produces from 8 to 11 slender, 
cylindrical flowering stems in a stool. The trunk is brownish 
yellow with black patches. 
The leaves are light green, narrow and thinnish, with reddish 
margin; matured blades from 162 to 215 em long and from 51 
to 57 cm wide; petioles from 40 to 50 cm long. 
The spike is long, bearing from 5 to 7 hands of mature fruits 
forming a long fruit cluster. 
The flowers (Plate VIII, figs. 6, 7, and 10) are white, except 
that the peduncle is greenish, usually 13 or 14 in a fasicle, 5 cm 
in length; perigonium with shallow sinuses; the scale ovate, thin- 
margined, with short acute tip, half as long as perigonium; 
stamens longer than pistil or perigonium; stigma oblong-elongate, 
The fruits are narrow, but long and slightly 5-angled, narrow- 
ing toward a long tip and flattened to a short stipe or pedicel, 
from 15 to 16 cm long and from 3 to 4 cm wide. The fruits all 
strongly curved downward parallel to and around the rachis, 
green when unripe and yellow when mature. The skin is thick. 
The pulp is sweet, cream-colored, and may be eaten without 
cooking. The weight of a mature fruit is from 36 to 98 grams. 
This variety also goes under the name galamay sefiora. Blanco 
mentions the latter as synonymous with dinuguan, but this is in- 
correct. His description of the variety glaberrima, however, 
clearly belongs to dinuguan. 
Other Philippine names for this banana are gonyod, kinamay 
dalaga, tudlo-dalaga, and tudlug-dato. 
MUSA SAPIENTUM L. var. GLAUCA (Blanco). Veinte cohol, tinalong. 
Plate IX, figs. 6-10. 
Musa paradisiaca glauca Blanco. 
Produces from 10 to 12 cylindrical stems in a stool; the trunk 
is green, characterized by a blackish epidermis. The plant at- 
tains a height of from 190 to 200 cm and a diameter of from 13 
to 15 cm at the base. 
The leaves are green and rather brittle; the mature blades are 
from 135 to 165 cm long and from 62 to 69 cm wide, with the 
