22 t). Prain — An undescrihed Indian Musa. [No. 1, 



pauci tantum foeminei ; perigonio aurantiaco 6 cm. longo, 1'25 cm. lato, 

 loborum exte riorum 2 parte libera 1*5 cm. Ion go basi 3 mm. lata 

 anguste lanceolata, interiorum 2 parte libera 6 mm. longa basi 2*5 mm. 

 lata ; tepalo libero albo fere pellucido versus apicem minopere primulino, 

 ovato-lanceolato, 3 cm. longo, 1*5 cm. lato, basi rotundato, apice acuto 

 rarius acuminato integro vel nonnunquam indistincte trilobato ; 

 staminibus perfectis 5, 4i'5 cm. lougis, filamentis crassiusculis pallide 

 flavis 1 '25 cm. longis, antheris 325 cm. longis connectivoque pallide auran- 

 tiacis, pollinis granulis albis globosis laevibus, stamine sexto ad stamin- 

 odium subulatum flavum 5 mm. longura reducto ; ovario saepe 2-loculari 

 stylo filiformi cylindrico pallide flavo 5 cm. longo, stigmafce 6-lobo 

 clavato ; ovulis numerosis anatropis. Fructus anguste clavato-oblongus, 

 distincte angulatus, viridis, laevis, exsuccus, 12-15 cm. longus, 3 cm. 

 latus, longius stipifcatus, ad racliin virgatim approximatus ; seminibus 

 irregulariter tessaroideis 11 mm. longis, 8 mm. latis, 6 mm. crassis, 

 testa ossea brunneo-nigra, praeter area circumhilaris alba. 



A.SSAM : in montibus Nagensibus orientalibus in ditione Jaboca dicta, 

 Ahdul Huq ! 



This very fine species in habit mnoh resembles the common Musa paradisiaca 

 Linn., subspecies seminifera Lour., var. pruinosa King, from Sikkim, with which it 

 moreover agrees in height, in having the leaves very densely glaucous beneath, and 

 in having the fruit distinctly angular. The two are however different as regards the 

 colour of the bracts which in the Sikkim plant are violet-purple, in the present 

 species are of a warm ' Indian red ' outside and a bright shining orange colour 

 inside. The stem in the Naga plant is more graceful and slender than in the 

 Sikkim one. The most salient difference however is in the fruits which in the 

 Sikkim plant are stouter and are recurved as in all other varieties of M. paradisiacay 

 whereas in M. Nagensium they point persistently forward and downward in the 

 direction of the apex of the long pendulous rachis ; the rachis too in the Naga plant 

 is much more slender and the bracts are much more remote than is ever the case in 

 M. paradisiaca ; the cone formed by the bracts is consequently longer, narrower and 

 more sharply pointed in the Naga plant than in M. paradisiaca. Another nearly 

 related species is Musa glauca Roxb. from Burma, which however differs greatly in 

 the colour of its bracts which are almost green, in the size of its leaves, which are 

 less than 2 metres long ; and in the shape of its fruit which is ellipsoid and not 

 angular, and though wider (5 cm.) than in the Naga plant is only 9 cm. long and is 

 not stipitate. 



