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The female flowers are for some reason much rarer than the males, 
but are generally borne upon the same plants, and occasionally on 
the same inflorescence, as in the present case. 
XIII—A NEW BANANA FROM THE TRANSVAAL. 
(Musa Davyae, Stapf.) 
~ O. Srapr. 
On the cover of the April number of the Transvaal Agricul- 
tural Journal for the year 1904 a banana of especially fine growth 
was figured, standing in a garden. No reference.was made, on the 
“ Musa Livingstoniana, Kirk ? 
Matella.” It was there said to grow along streams on the eastern 
slope of the Drakensbergen from 4800 ft. down to about 2800 ft. 
Subsequently in 1911 in an article on “ Banana and Plantain 
fibre” (Agr. Journ. Union 8. Afr. vol. I. p. 93) it was, by the 
same author, referred to Musa ventricosa. In the same year 
r. W. C. Worsdell communicated to Kew seeds of this plantain 
which he had gathered near the fruit-farm “ Westphalia,” about 
60 miles north of Pietersburg, Zoutpansberg District, in 1911. 
From the seeds it was evident that the plant belonged neither to 
M. Livingstoniana nor to M. ventricosa; but in the absence of 
specimens no determination was possible. Last year, however, 
Mr. Burtt Davy sent drawings of the inflorescence, flowers and 
fruits made from the plant in 1906 by Mrs. Burtt Davy, and these 
rendered it possible to connect the Transvaal plant with good 
flowering specimens which were collected in 1907 by Mr. W. H. 
Johnson in Amatonga’s Forest in Portuguese East Africa just over 
the Transvaal frontier, and almost in the same latitude as the 
Zoutpansberg District. 
M. Davyae inhabits as far as is known at present an area lying 
between 30° 25/ to 32° 30’ E. long. and 23° to 24° S. lat. According to 
Mr. Burtt Davy it occurs forming groves “in sheltered Kloofs at 
about 1400 m. altitude, on the eastern slopes of the Houtboschberg, 
a spur of the Drakenberg Range in the Zoutpansberg Magisterial 
District,” He found plants growing sctaidly in the water of 
