MuStt. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. (\QQ 



numerous, angular, and black. Perisperm and embryo as in 

 the former species. 



5. M. glauca. R. 



Root fibrous, and perishing with the columnar stem. 

 Spadix drooping; spalhes ovate-lanceolate, imbricated, from 

 ten to twenty-flowered, permanent; those of the male-herma- 

 phrodite flowers withering-. 



A very stately, elegant, perfectly distinct, strongly marked 

 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 

 . Muscc known to me. 



Root fibrous, about triennial, for like that of my superba, 

 it perishes with the plant, when it has perfected its seed, and 

 not like the cultivated sorts, tuberous, permanent, and furnish- 

 ino- 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 circumference. 

 Leaves numerous round the apex of the stem, &c. as in M. 

 Sapientum. Spadix in this species rather long-ped uncled, 

 perfectly pendulous, base occupied with fertile female-herma- 

 phrodite flowers, which are completely hid under the perma- 

 nent, ovate-lanceolate spathes; the barren or nude 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, stamina, and pistillum, as in M. Sapientum, fee. Ber- 

 ries trigonally clavate, as thick as a cucumber, and about 



