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MONOCOTYLEDONES. 



have quad ril ocular anthers ; ovary, 3-locular. Seed with straight 

 embryo in mealy perisperm. 



The best-known genus is Musa, the Banana (Fig. 314). From 

 the short rhizome arise enormously large, spirally-placed leaves, 

 whose sheaths envelope one another, and form an apparently aerial 



FIG. 3H. Two ifMsa-species. 



stem, several metres in height. The inflorescence is a terminal 

 spike with floral-leaves placed spirally, and sometimes magnifi- 

 cently coloured ; in the axils of each of these several flowers are 

 situated in two transverse rows (accessory buds) ; the lowest 

 flowers in the inflorescence are ? , the central ones , the upper 



