DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES OF MUSA 279 



M. sylvestris Lemarie* (Bull. icon, de Vlndo- Chine, 1901). 

 This is a name given to a wild banana, indigenous in Haut- 

 Tonkin, recommended as a fibre plant. No description 

 has been published. 



FOSSIL PLANTS ASCRIBED TO MUSA 



Lesquereux describes a fossil plant from the North 

 American Tertiaries which he names Musa complicatum. 

 Schimper has named a form from the Miocene of Bohemia 

 Musa bilinicum. Saporta describes, from the Eocene of 

 Aix and Italy, plants which he calls Musa speciosum and 

 M. longcevum. These are only known from the leaves, 

 which exhibit a form of venation characteristic of the 

 living forms. 



