664 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Musa. 
diz simple, drooping. Spathes partial, numerous, ovate, con- 
cave, smooth, crimson on the inside, outside darker-coloured, 
six or eight of these nearest the base of the spadix embracea 
double row of female-hermaphrodite flowers, and are not al- 
ways deciduous, but sometimes wither, and remain till the 
seeds are ripe. All the rest, and they are very numerous, ex- 
panding im succession for two or three months, embrace simi- 
lar double rows of abortive, or male-hermaphrodite flowers; 
which, with their spathes, are always deciduous, Calyx no 
other than the just mentioned spathes. Corol of two, dissi- 
milar petals; the exterior one with an unequally five-toothed 
apex, which soon becomes revolute, the inner one sometimes 
called the nectary, half the length of the exterior one ; when 
forcibly expanded they are nearly round, but in their natu- 
ral state oblong, and deeply concave, with an emarginate 
apex, and incurved, ensiform point. Filaments in both flow- 
ers five, with sometimes the rudiment of a sixth, ,Anthers 
in the male-hermaphrodite linear, and.as long as. the fila- 
ments; in the female-hermaphrodite minute, and without 
pollen. Germ. inferior, oblong, three-celled, with from four 
to five or six rows of oyula in each cell, regularly attached 
to a central; fleshy receptacle axis; by their growth they are . 
forced from the regular situation in which they are found in 
the germ, their insertions cannot then be easily traced ; inthe 
male-hermaphrodite: they are abortive, Style cylindric, 
Stigma three-lobed, large and clammy; . Berry oblong, ta- 
pering to each end; of a soft fleshy consistence, smooth and 
yellow, marked. Iongieudinelly. with five ribs, three-celled ; 
the partitions distinct, but soft and pulpy, and:no doubt dis- 
appear when dry, and long kept.. Seeds numerous, the size 
of a small pea, round, turbinate, tubercled ; the exterior half 
dark-chesnut. or /blackish toward the umbilicus, which is.a 
large circular cayity ;. light brown, _Integument, &c, as de- 
