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CXLIV. MUSACE^. 



1. MUSA, Tomnef. 



1. Ornata, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 666. — Root perennial, putting 

 forth a succession of spurious stems, as in the common Plantain ; 

 from 3 to 5 feet high ; leaves linear-oblong, and of a firmer 

 texture than in the cultivated Plantain; spadix erect; spathes 

 deciduous, 3-flowered, lanceolate ; fruit linear-oblong, slightly 

 incurved, obscurely 4 to 5-sided, the size of a man's finger; 

 seeds many, black, tubercled; pulp none. The favourite localitj 

 of this and the following is on the sides of precipitous crags, almost 

 inaccessible. 



2. SuPERBA, Roxb. loc. cit. p 667. — Root bulbous, with an 

 annual spurious short stem ; leaves petioled lanceolate ; spadix ter- 

 minal, simple, drooping; spathes broad-cordate, smooth ferruginous; 

 flowers numerous in each spathe, beriy oblong, size of a goose-egg, 

 dry wfien ripe, and filled with rather large angular black seeds. — 

 Ram Ghaut, &:c. Has entirely the habit of a Crinum. 



CXLV. ZINZIBERACE^. 



1. GLOBBA, Linn. 



1. Marantina, Linn., Willd. sp. i, 153. — Root tuberous ; stems 

 12 to 18 inches high; leaves bifarious, broad-lanceolate acute, 

 smooth above, villous and whitish underneath, margins waved ; 

 spike terminal, solitary,' strobiliform, oblong; bracts ovate-cordate, 

 with a small bulb in the axil ; flowers slender, bright-yellow, 

 fragrant, tube long and slender. On Wag Donger, in the Warree 

 Country. Syn. G marantinoides, Wight Ic. 



2. ZINZIBER, Gaert. 



1. Zerumbet, Roscoe in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii, 348. — Root 

 tuberous ; stems annual, oblique, 3 to 4 feet high; leaves bifarious ; 

 broad-lanceolate, entire, smooth-waved ; peduncle solitary, 1 to 2 

 feet high; spikes oval, compact, obtuse; bracts broad obovate; 

 flowers large, of a pale sulphur-colour. Common about old wells, 

 &c. in the South Concan. 



2. Cassumunar, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 49. — Root tuberous ; stems 

 erect, round, 3 to 5 feet high ; leaves bifarious, linear-lanceolate, 

 1 to 2 feet long, 3 inches broad ; scapes radical, 6 to 1 2 inches 

 long ; spikes oblong strobihform, closely imbricated with numerous, 

 obovate acuminate villous bracts ; flowers large, of a pale sulphur- 

 colour. The Concans. 



