FIG. 3. A BANANA PLANT 



Drawing of a banana plant, showing the large ovaries of the female 

 flowers, the small ovaries of the neuter flowers, and the bracts covering 

 the male flowers. From an engraving by G. D. Ehret in " The Natural 

 History of Barbados," by the Rev. Mr. Griffith Hughes, A.M., London, 



MDCCL. 



