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hermaphrodite flowers of the wild plant often wither and remain 

 till the seeds are ripe, but in the cultivated varieties they are always 

 deciduous. 



Bita, Rheed. Mai. i. 17. U2. 13. and 14. 



Musa, Rumph. amb. v. 130. t. 60. 



Rain-Kwlla, Wah'-kwlia, Ram-jakialia-kulla, "are the names the 

 wild Banana, and plantain are known by at Chittagong, where they 

 are found indigenous in the forests and blossom during the rains. 



Sungs. 3i^i*ft, Kudulee, "nX^^^T, VarwuMbhoosa, 3T?HTj 

 Rwmbha, TH^f, Mocha, ^grffrTTJ\^iT, (Tngshoom/ttphida, ^RT^t^T, 

 Kashtheela, ■^TERsfT, Soophwla, "H^HKT, Sookoomara, "H^CcT'tfr^n', 

 Sttkritphula, TH^rifi^r, Goochchhwphula, ^f^ff^r^ff, Hustm- 

 shanee, Tr^^f^^fC, Goochchhudmitika, cfTfCfCHr, Kashtheerwsa, 

 frarnj, Nisara, ^T^i, Rajesta, ^T^fsT^T, Balizkapnya, 

 vS^^T^HT, Ooroostwmbha, ^T^^^X? Bhanoophala, ^«r^^t, V«- 

 nwlukshmee. 

 Seng. Kula. 



Telinga. Aretti; and Komaretti the cultivated plantain. 

 Tue varieties of the Banana, cultivated over India, are very numer- 

 ous but fewer of the plantain, as 1 have hitherto obtained know- 

 ledge of only three ; whereas, 1 may safely say, not less, than ten 

 times that number of the former have come under my inspection. 



Their duration, culture, habit, and natural character are already 

 wed known; I shall therefore confine myself to (what I think,) the 

 original wild Musa, from which I conclude all the cultivated varie- 

 ties of both plantain and banana proceed, and which I consider as 

 varieties of that one species. 



In the course of two years, from the seed received from Chitta- 

 gong, these attained to the usual height of the cultivated sorts which 

 is about ten or twelve feet. They blossom at all seasons, though 

 generally during the rains ; and ripen their seed in five or six months 

 afterwards 5 the plant then perishes down to the root, which long be- 



