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VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS 



Fig. 107, I. — Banana (Musa sapicntum, Banana Family, Musacea). Plant 

 showing flower cluster and young fruit. (Pechuel-Loesch.) — "What ap- 

 pears to be trunk consists of the leaf-stalks wrapped around one an- 

 other, the stem being short and mostly underground. The height is 

 about 6 m. or more. 



