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habit render it particularly fit for exposed localities, 
and this is one of the reasons why it is so extensively 
cultivated in the South Sea Islands. The yield of 
fruit is profuse (as much as 200 to 300 fruits in a 
spike), and the flavor excellent. This, as well as M. 
sapientum and M. paradisiaca, ripens till their fruits 
in Madeira and Florida. 
Musa Ensete, Gmelin. — Bruce’s Banana. From 
Sofala to Abyssinia, in mountain regions. This mag- 
nificent plant attains a height of 30 feet, the leaves 
occasionally reaching to the length of 20 feet, with a 
width of 3 feet, being perhaps the largest in the whole 
empire of plants, exceeding those of Strelitzia and 
Ravenala, and surpassing even in quadrat-measure- 
ment those of the grand water-plant Victoria Regia, 
while excelling in comparative circumference, also, 
the largest compound frond of Angiopteris evecta, or 
divided leaf of Godwinia Gigas, though the compound 
leaves of some palms are still larger. Theinner part 
of the stem, and the young spike of the Ensete, can 
be boiled to serve as a table esculent, but the fruit is 
pulpless. This plant produces no suckers, and re- 
quires several years to come into flower and seed, 
when it dies off like the Sago-plant, the Caryota-palm, 
and others, which flower but once without reproduc- 
tion from the root. 
Musa Livingstoniana, Kirk.—Mountains of Sofala, 
Mozambique, and the Niger regions. Similar to M. 
Ensete; seeds much smaller. Possibly requiring no 
protection here in favorable places. ; 
Musa paradisiaca, L.—The ordinary Plantain or 
Pisang. India. Among the most prolific of plants, 
requiring the least care in climes adapted for its 
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