673 



The bunches are cut green for shipment. There are many cul- 

 tivcated varieties, full particulars of which are given in Kew Bull. 

 iseq.) and other works to which reference is made, together with 

 tnore detail as to cultivation, various economic uses and trade. 



Ref,—" Plantain and Banana Fibre {Musa sapientiim) ' ' Kew 

 Bull. April 1887, pp. 5-8; reprinted in Add, Series ii. " Veg. 



Fibres," pp. 97-105. '' Species and Principal Varieties of 



Musa,'' Kew Bull. 1894, pp. 229-314 ; reprinted as' Add. Series vi. 



1906, pp. 1-88. " Mexican Banana/' Bering, Diplomatic & 



Consular Rep. Misc. No. 385, 1895, pp. 27-31. " The Banana 



Soils of Jamaica," Cousins, in Bull. Bot. Dept» Jamaica, viii. 



•Oct. 1901, pp. 145-153, with analyses of the various soils. 



■** L'ImDortation des Ananas et des Bananas de la Guiner 

 Tran^aise,'' Debreuil, in Revue Cult. Col. x. 1902, pp. 142-146 



-" Les Bananiers en Afrique occidentale," Chevalier, I.e. 



f)p. 289-294. — ~" Farine de Banane,*' Leuscher, in Journ. 



^d'Agrie. Tropicale, iii. 1903, pp. 304-306. " Leuscher's Method 



of Preparing Banana Flour," N^ish, in Journ. Jamaica Agric. 



Soc. vii. No. 11, 1903, pp. 439-441. The Banana in Hawaii, 



Higgins, U.S. Dej^t. Agric. Hawaii Agric. Exp. St., Bull. No. 7, 

 4904, pp- 1-53; pis. i.-ix. (Hawaiian Gazette Co. Ltd. Honolulu, 



J 904) . ** The Cultivation of Bananas and Pine-Apples, ' ' 



Bull.' Imp. Inst. iii. 1905, pp. 62-69. "Banana Cultivation," 



Hale, in Agric. Bull. Fed. Malay States, v. June 1906, pp. 185-192, 



Avith particulars of 75 varieties. *' Dried Bananas," Bull. 



Imp. Inst. vi. 1908, pp. 113-115. '^ Plantain Fibre" and 



^^ Banana Fibre," I.e. pp. 240, 241; Gold Coast. "Banana 



Oultivation in Egypt," Kew Bull. 1908, pp. 102-105. 



•*' Bananas in the West Indies," Henricksen, in " Tropical Life," 



:November, pp. 170-171 and December 1908, pp. 186-187.^ 



' Bananiers," De Wildeman, in Annales du Mus. Col. de Marseille, 



ivii. 1909, pp. 238-247. Le Bananier, Hubert, pp. 1-222, 



illustrated (H. Dunod & E. Pinat, Paris, 1910). '' Banana 



Products from the Seychelles," Col. Hep. Misc. No. 71, 1910, 



pp. 230-231.- '' The Drying of Plantains at Ayashi," Kulkarni, 



in Agric. Journ. India, vi. 1911, pp. 289-291; pis. xxxix.-xl. 



■*^ Rajeli," the special variety dried. '* Les Bananiers : Culture 



i^xploitation. Commerce, Systematique de Genre Musa,'' De 

 Wildeman, in Annales du Mus. Col. de Marseille, x. 1912, pp. 286- 



362. '' The World's Widest-Known Fruit," Barrett, in PhiHp- 



pine Agric. Review, v. 1912, pp. 375-384. *' Notes on the 



Banana," Fawcett, in the West India Committee Circular, xxvii. 

 Jan. 2nd, 1912, pp. 4-6, concluded in No. 361, July 30th, 1912 

 Appearing in each issue (fortnightly) except one (July 16th). 

 The Banana : Its Cultivation, Distribution and Commercial Uses, 

 Pawcett, pp. 1-287 (Duckworth & Co., London, 1913). 

 '* Varieties of Plantains and Bananas Cultivated in the Seychelles," 



Kew Bull. 1913, pp. 229^231. "The Bureau o! Agriculture 



Banana Collection/' Barrett, in Philippine Agric. Beview, vi. 



8ept. 1913, pp. 433-439, with an extensive list of varieties. 



' A Preliniinarv Study of PhiHppine Bananas," Teodoro, in 



