CXXXIV. SCITAMINEiE (baKEr). 331 



about 12 in a cluster, yellowish-white, IJ in. long. Calyx 5-toothed at 

 the apex. Petal ovate, half as long as the calyx. Fruit oblong-trigo- 

 nous, seedless, bright yellow when ripe, 3-4 in. long, the flesh fit to eat 

 without cooking. — Trew, PI. Sel. t. 21-23 ; Baker in Annals Bot, vii. 

 211 ; Kew Bulletin, 1894, 250. 



Var. M. paradisiaca, Linn. Sp. Plant, ed. 2, 1477. Male flowers and bracts less 

 deciduous. Fruit ^-1 ft., with firmer and less saccharine pulp, not fit to eat without 

 cooking.— Trew, PI. Sel. t. 18-20 ; Kew Bulletin, 1894, 250 and 232 with fig. M, 

 cliffortiana, Linn. Musa ClifF. 1, t. 1. 



Tropical Africa. Universally cultivated, ascending to 6000-7000 ft. For 

 details, see Kew Bulletin, 1894, 252 ; Warburg in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 91. 



The special African forms are: — 



Var. Massoni, Baker. Nearly allied to M. Cavendishii, Lamb., with a shorter 

 trunk, petiole and panicle than in the type, and oblong small slightly curved saccharine 

 fruits. — M. Massoni, Sagot in Journ. Soc. Nat. Hort. France, 1887, 293. 



liOwer Guinea. Gaboon. 



No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 



Var. vittata, Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5402. Leaves pinnately variegated with 

 bands of white. Bracts bright red inside. Fruits 6-8 in. long, with vertical stripes 

 of white and green. — Kew Bulletin, 1894, 250 with fig. M. vittata, Ackerm. in Flore 

 des Serres, 1. 1510-1513. 



ZiO\irer Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, brought into cultivation by Ackermann 

 6c Mann. 



Var. sanguinea, Welw. ex Ridley in Journ. Bot. 1887, 134, Trunk and leaves 

 more or less tinged with bright red. 



IiO\irer Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; Ponte de Luiz Gomez, Welwifsch, 

 6446; Cazengo, cultivated, Jf^elicifsc^/, 64;A6b I " Eananeira roxa." 



No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 



Order CXXXV. H^MODORACE^. (By J. G. Baker.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or slightly irregular. Perianth 

 coroUine, with or without a tube above the ovary ; segments more or 

 less distinctly bisexual. Stamens G, all perfect in the Tropical African 

 genera, inserted at the base of the perianth-lobes ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers versatile and dehiscing longitudinally, or basifixed and dehiscing 

 by terminal pores. Ovary inferior, half-inferior, or superior, 3-celled ; 

 ovules 1-2 or many in a eel] ; style filiform ; stigma capitate, 3-lobed. 

 Fruit dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds globose or discoid, albuminous; 

 embryo small. — Perennial herbs, sometimes densely hairy all over. 

 Rootstock a rhizome or corm. Leaves very various. Flowers panicled, 

 racemose or cymose, usually small and inconspicuous. 



Species 120, concentrated in Australia. 



Perianth with a cylindrical tube. Anthers dehiscing 



longitudinally. Ovary superior . . . .1. SansevIEBIA. 



Perianth with a very short tube. Anthers dehiscing by ter- 

 minal pores. Ovary half-inferior . . .2. Cyanastrum. 



