MUSACEAE 107 
prized varieties. The fruit is green or yellowish-green when 
mature, while the flesh is soft and has a very delicate flavor. 
It is identical with the most commonly cultivated form in 
Kwangtung Province, China. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
June, 1915, from cultivated plants, there known as bungulan 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 928). 
Musa paradisiaca Linn. var. glauca Blanco Fl. Filip. (1887) 250 (var. 
nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 175; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 312=MUSA SAPIENTUM 
Linn. var. GLAUCA (Blanco) Teodoro in Philip. Journ. Sci. 10 (1915) 
Bot. 402, t. 9, f. 6-10. ° 
This banana is very similar to the form described by Blanco 
as Musa paradisiaca Linn. var. cinerea Blanco, locally known 
as letondal or letondan, and is apparently only a slight variant 
of that form. 
Illustrative specimen from Bosoboso, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
July 18, 1916, there known as veinte cohol (Merrill: Species 
Blancoanae No. 912). 
Hens paradisiaca Linn. var. ternatensis Blanco F 1). Filip. (1837) 243 (var. 
- nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 170; ed. 38, 1 (1877) 305=MUSA SAPIENTUM 
Linn. var. TERNATENSIS (Blanco) Teodoro in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
10 (1915) Bot. 404, t. 7, f. 1-5. 
This is one of the cultivated forms of Musa paradisiaca Linn. 
subsp. sapientum (Linn.) O. Ktze., the fruits yellow when 
mature, seedless, the pulp well flavored. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
November, 1915, there known as gloria (Merrill: Species Blan- 
coanwe No. 216). . 
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Musa paradisiaca Linn var. lacatan Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 243 (var. 
nov.) ; ed. 2 (1845) 170; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 305, t. 88=MUSA SAPIEN- 
TUM Linn. var. LACATAN Teodoro in Philip. Journ. Sci. 10 (1915) 
Bot. 405, #. £7, f/ 1-5: 
This is one of the most desirable eating bananas in the Phil- 
ippines and is commonly known as lacatan. 3 
Musa paradisiaca Linn. var. ulnaris Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 246 (var. 
nov.) ; ed. 2 (1845) 172; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 309. 
A purely imaginary banana, of which Blanco saw no material. 
He described it from hearsay, the fruits as being as thick as 
the “pantorilla” (calf of the leg) and attaining a length of a 
“braza” (about six feet). The probabilities are that Blanco’s 
informant was trying to describe the form commonly known as — 
tundoe or tuldoc, which has unusually large fruits. 
