Musa. P£N"TAXDRIA MOJJOGYNIA. 489 



distinct colls, Sec. in the male one minute. Style in the former twice 

 as lung as the filaments, with a large clammy stigma ; in the latter 

 shorter than the stamens, very slender, and with scarcely any stigma 

 at all.— Berry linear-oblong, slightly incurved, obscurely four- or five- 

 sided, with the angles much rounded, smooth, fleshy, when ripe dull 

 yellowish green, about the size of a man's little finger, three^celled.— 

 Seeds many in a single row in each cell, compressed, tending to be 

 quadrangular, tubercled, very black, inserted into the soft fleshy par- 

 titions. Perisperm and embryo as in the former species. 



A very pretty ornamental plant,* and would no doubt be much 

 admired iu Europe. 



4. M. superba, R. 



Root fibrous and perishing with the short conical stem. Leaves 

 petioled, but not sheathing. Spadix nodding. Spalhes cordate, 

 many-flowered, those of the female-hermaphrodite flower permanent. 



A native of the vallies of the southern parts of the peninsula 

 ©f India. From Dindigul Dr. Anderson of Madras received it 

 into his garden and from thence introduced into the botanic garden 

 at Calcutta, where the plants thrive, blossom and ripen their seeds 

 at various times of the year. 



Trunk almost conical, being only three feet to the leaves, seven 



+ 

 and half in circumference close to the ground, and four and half im- 

 mediately under the leaves; and invested with the numerous, some- 

 what stem-clasping bases of those that have decayed ; height of the 

 whole plant to the highest part of the curvature of the spadix, thir- 

 teen feet. — Leaves numerous, equally surrounding every part of ihe 

 stem, petioled, lanceolate, very entire, until broken by wind, &c fili- 

 form, pointed, smooth on both sides, with numerous parallel, di- 

 verging veins ; from five to ten feet long, and from two to three broad. 

 — Petiols about two feet long; those of the lower leaves have their 

 bases broad and embrace the stem ; while those near the inflores- 



This is probably M. rosacta, Jacqu. which hat been well figured in Botaa. Regiit. i<»- 

 706. A and B.— N. W, 



