666 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Musa, 
are small, and totally destitate of pollen. Germ inferior, ob- 
long, three-celled, &e. Style as long as the stamens, Stigma 
oval, obscurely three lobed. Pericarp of the male-herma- 
phrodite flowers abortive, of the female-hermaphrodite ones 
fertile, oblong, and a little compressed, pulpy, about two 
inches long, and less than one broad, when ripe yellow, divid- 
ed in ternally into three cells, with a double row of seeds 
_in each, these seeds however rarely come to maturity here. 
The plant is highly ornamental, which so far as I know, is 
all that can be said in its favour, 
3. M. ornata. R. 
Spadix erett; spathes deciduous, three-flowered, lanceo- 
late. Both petals of the corols equal in length. 
Beng. Ramanigee kula, 
A native of Chittagong, where this and some other sorts 
are commonly called monkeys’ plantains. Except in size 
and manner of flowering, the species does not in any res- 
pect differ from the common cultivated sorts already well 
known. In the Botanic garden at Calcutta, they blossom 
and ripen their seeds the while year. pare 91 
~ Root perennial, pushing forth a succession of stems < every 
way like those of the cultivated sorts, only about as thick as 
a man’s arm, and in general, in a rich soil from three to 
five feet high. Leaves petioled, &c. as the common plan- 
tain. Spadix erect. Spathes partial, ‘alternate, boat-shaped, 
bi road Janceolate, obtuse, smooth, striated, colour a most love- 
ly light purple or lilac, two or three-flowered, deciduous, 
Tength from four to six inches. Flowers, the inferior five or 
six spathes are occupied by female-hermaphrodite ones; all 
the rest, and they are very numerous, by male: hermaphro- 
dite ones, all are orange-coloured. Coral two-petalled, the 
exterior one irregularly five-toothed, the lateral segments 
with calearate apices. The inner petal:is as long as the,ex- 
exterior one, thin, and membranaceous, Filaments five, in 
some lowers there is the minuteradiment of asixth Anthers 
