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MUSACEiE. 



[Endooens. 



most brilliant blue colour, yields an essential oil. The juice of the fruit and the lymph 

 of the stem of Musa are slightly astringent and diaphoretic. The juice of the fruit of 

 Urania is used for dyeing. — Agdh. 



GENEUA. 



l.—Hcliconea. Seeds solitary. I II. -Uranea. Seeds numerous StreHtzia, Bcr«*.« 

 Fruit a capsule bursting through 



the partitions. 



Heliconia, Linn. 

 Bihai, Plum. 



m each cell. Fruit berried, or, I ? Heliconia, Ga?rtn. 

 if capsular, bursting through the Ravenala, Adans. 



cells. 

 Musa. Tournef. 



Urania, Schreb. 

 Phenacosperomm, Bndl. 



Numbers. Gen. 4. Sp. 20. 



Liliacece. 

 Position. — Zingiberacese. — Musace.e.— Marantaceae. 



Palmacece .' 



Fig. CXII. bis. 



Fig. CXII. bin. Part of the inflorescence of Heliconia angnstifolia ; «, stamens and pistil, the 

 surrounding parts being removed.— after Honker. 



