Musa, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 667 
_in the male hermaphrodite flowers linear, as long as the fi- 
laments, in the female ones most minute and abortive, Germ 
inferior, in the female-hermaphrodite flowers large, and line. 
ar-oblong, with three most distinct cells, &e. in the male 
one minute, Style in the former twice as long as the fila- 
ments, with a large clammy stigma ; in the latter shorter 
than the stamens, very slender, and with scarcely any stigma 
at all, Berry linear-oblong, slightly incurved, obscurely 
four or five-sided, with the angles mach rounded, smooth, 
fleshy, when ripe dull yellowish green, about the size ofa 
man’s little finger, three-celled, Seeds many in a single 
tow in each cell, compressed, tending to be quadrancular, 
tubercled, very black, inserted into the soft fleshy ee 
Perisperm and embryo as in the former species. 
A very pretty ornamental plant, and would no doubt so 
— admired in Europe, “ 
4, M. superba. R. 
‘Reot fibrous and perishing with the short conical stem. 
Leaves petioled, but not sheathing. Spadix nodding. Spa- 
thes cordate, many flowered, those of the female-hermaphro- 
dite flower permanent. ‘ 
A native of the vallies of the southern parts of the peninsu- 
la of India, From Dindigal Dv. Anderson of Madras receiv- 
ed it into his garden, and from thence introduced into the Bo- 
tanic garden at Calcutta, where the plants thrive, blossom, 
and ripen their seeds at various times of the year. 
~~ Trunk almost conical, being only three feet to the leaves, 
seven anda half in circumference close to the ground, and four 
and a half immediately under the leaves ; and invested with the 
numerous, somewhat stem clasping bases of those that have | 
decay ed; height of the whole plant to the highest part of the 
curvature of the spadix, thirteen feet. Leaves numerous, 
equally surrounding every part of the stem, petioled, lanceo- 
late, very entiré, until broken by wind, &e. filiforin, pointed, ; 
sinooth on both sides, with numerous parallel, div in 
