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quinquenervia, dura, firmia, ere6tiufcuia, 3, 

 4, 5-unciaria, verfus apicem contorta, petio- 

 lata, nervo medio fubaculeato : acuieis 1 , 

 2, 3, parvis ; interdum inermia. Petiolus 

 patens, brevis, femiuncialisjbaficrafriirimus, 

 h. e. e tuberculo lenfim prodiens, latus, 

 margine membranaceo, femiamplexicauli, 

 membrana firma tamen \ fubtus convexus, 

 angulo carinatus parvo, fubinermi vel fer- 

 ratulo, vel glabro vel fpinula una alteraque 

 notatns apice furluin curvus. 



I. MARTIL 



170. MUSA had fruit, but fome bloflbms 

 were flill on it. I found 5 llamina with a 

 rudiment of a 6th in the nedtariurn of 

 the male flowers, and the fame in the 

 hermaphrodite flowers. I could obferve 

 no difference, except that thofe in the 

 male flowers were narrower. 



II. To-day I caught in a hollow tree a Rohi-^ 

 peUdo or Mapeha as the Indians call it. It is 

 Dr. Linn^us's DIDELPHIS, fo remarkable 

 on account of the pouch wherein it keeps 

 its young ones ; many think this pouch to 

 be the Uterus Amoen Acad, and Muf. Reg. 

 That which v/e caught, was a male. Its 

 penis was big between the hind legs, round 

 and naked, but cloven like the foot of a 

 C c 3 cow 



