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 over- 
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. Hooxer. 
At p. 1. of introductory matter, under Class II. Monoco- 
TYLEDONES, Cohort IJ. AMoMALEs, insert: 
Order 121 bis. Musacee (p. 356) ; 
and in the character of the Cohort, for “ Stamens 1-2,” put 
“Stamens 1-5.” 
Insert at p. 356 : 
Orper CXXI. bis. MUSACEZ. i 
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 3 
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 (Musa) and the Traveller’s-tree of Madagascar 
(Ravenala). 
