The following important Natural Order having been omitted 
in Dr. Harvey’s MS. of the Second Edition of the ‘ Genera 
of South African Plants, and the omission having been oyver- 
looked by me when passing this work through the press, I 
have to request that the following matter be inserted in the 
places indicated.—J. D. Hooxerr. 
At p. 1. of introductory matter, under Class IJ. Monoco- 
TYLEDONES, Cohort II. AMOMALES, insert: 
Order 121 dis. Musacee (p. 356) ; 
and in the character of the Cohort, for “Stamens 1-2,” put 
“ Stamens 1-5.” 
Insert at p. 356 : 
Orpver CXXI. bis. MUSACE. 
Flowers bisexual. Perianth with a superior, irregular, 6- 
parted limb ; segments coloured, one of the outer larger often 
keeled, two inner lateral ones usually small, the innermost 
(lip).very small. Stamens 5, or 6, with that opposite the lip 
all but suppressed, one or more perfect, inserted at the base 
or middle of the perianth-segments ; anther or anthers linear, 
2-celled, introrse, opening by slits, often with a membranous 
crest ; pollen powdery. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; style simple ; 
stigma usually 3-lobed ; ovules 1 or more in each cell. Fruit 
a 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved capsule, or succulent and in- 
dehiscent, few- or many-seeded. Seeds often with a hairy or 
fleshy aril ; testa coriaceous, crustaceous, or hard and bony ; 
albumen fleshy or mealy; embryo small, straight.—Herbs, 
often gigantic, with simple entire leaves whose petioles dilate 
into long sheaths ; limb convolute. Flowers on axillary or 
radical scapes, usually large, spiked or racemose, surrounded 
by spathaceous bracts. To this Order belongs the Banana 
and Plantain (JZusa) and the Traveller’s-tree of Madagascar 
(Ravenala). 
