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allusion to the tall arborescent ferns, speak of the fan- 

 leaved umbrella palm, and of the delicate and always fresh 

 verdure of the cultivated plantains or bananas. Among the 

 Sanscrit names given by Amarasinha for the plantain or 

 banana (the Musa of botanists) there are bhanu-phala (sun- 

 fruit), varana-buscha, and moko. Phala signifies fruit in 

 general. Lassen explains the words of Pliuy (xii. 6), 

 "arbori nomen palse, porno ariense" thus: "The Roman 

 mistook the word pala, fruit, for the name of the tree ; and 

 \rarana (in the mouth of a Greek ouarana) became trans- 

 formed into ariena. The Arabic mauza may have been 

 formed from moko, and hence our Musa. Bhanu-fruit is 

 not far from banana-fruit/' (Compare Lassen, Indische 

 Alterthumskuiide, Bd. i. S. 262, with my Essai politique sur 

 la NouveUe Espagne, T. ii. p. 382, and Eel. hist. T. i. p. 491.) 



(V) p. 22." The form of Malvacea." 



Larger malvaceous forms begin to appear as soon as we 

 have crossed the Alps ; at Nice and in Dalmatia, Lavatera 

 arborea ; and in Liguria, Lavatera olbia. The dimensions of 

 the Baobab, monkey-bread tree, have been mentioned above, 

 (Vol. ii. p. 90.) To this form are attached the also bota- 

 nically allied families of the Byttneriacese (Sterculia, Her- 

 mannia, and the large-leaved Theobroma Cacao, in which 

 the flowers spring from the bark both of the trunk and 

 the roots) ; the Boinbaeese (Adansonia, Helicteres, and 

 Cheirosteinon) ; and lastly the Tiliacese (Sparmannia Afri- 

 cana.) 1 may name more particularly as superb represen- 

 tatives of the Mallow-form, our Cavanillesia platanifolia, of 



