Musa. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 669 
numerous, angular, and black. Perisperm a and —- as in 
the former apoete- : ; 
5. M. ‘alata R, 
Root fibrous, and perishing with the columnar stem. 
Spadix drooping; spathes ovate-lanceolate, imbricated, from 
ten to twenty-flowered, permanent ; those of the inion 
phrodite flowers withering. 
A very stately, elegant, perfectly distinct, strongly waren 
species, a native of Pegu, and from thence introduced, by the 
discoverer, Mr. F. Carey, into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 
where it blossoms in May, and the seeds ripen in October and 
November. Like my M. superba it never produces suckers, 
_ consequently it must be reared from the seed, which it fur- 
nishes in great abundance; the fruit containing’ little else, — 
even fit for a monkey to eat. The whole plant has a pale glau- 
cous appearance, which, with its columnar stem and total 
want of suckers, readily distinguish this from all the other 
Muse known tome. 
Root fibrous, about triennial, for like that of my seria 
it perishes with the plant, when it has perfected its seed, and 
not like the cultivated sorts, tuberous, permanent, and furnish- 
ing a succession of suckers, by which they are quickly and_ 
abundantly propagated, Stem simple, erect, columnar, from 
ten to twelve feet high and about two feet in cireumference. 
Leaves numerous round the apex of the stem, &c. as in M. 
Sapientum. ‘Spadix in this species rather long-peduncled, 
perfectly pendulous, base occupied with fertile female-herma- 
pliredite flowers, which are completely hid‘under the perma- 
nent, ovate-lanceolate spathes; the barren or male-hermaphro- . 
dite flowers occupy all the rest to the very apex, and continue 
to blossom in succession until the seeds are ripe, by which 
time this part greatly exceeds in length the fertile part, and 
continues covered with the withered, but permanent spathes, 
Corol, jatainine, nwehipispilln, as in M. Sapientum, &e. Ber- 
ies trivonally clavate, as’ thick as a cucumber, and about 
