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Sub-genus Ruopocutamys, Baker. Stems slender, 
cylindrical. Male flowers few to a ract. Fruit not 
generally edible. Usually stoloniferous. 
Fruit edible; bracts yellow-brown - 24. M. maculata. 
Fruit not edible : 
Leaves large ; fruit distinctly stipitate - 25. M. sumatrana. 
Leaves smaller ; fruit not distinctly stipitate : 
Bracts pale or dark lilac: ; 
Petal shorter than the calyx - 26. M. violascens. 
Petal nearly or quite as long as 
the ealyx : - 
Flowers yellow — - - 21. M. rosacea. 
Flowers greenish - - 28. M. salaccensis. 
Bracts red: 
Fruit hairy - - - 29. M. velutina. 
Fruit glabrous : 
Petal nearly or quite as 
ong as the calyx 
Bracts crimson - 90. M. coccinea. 
Bracts pale red - 31. M. 
Bracts blood-red — - 32. M. sanguini 
Petal — shorter than 
the ¢ 
prides bright red - 33, M. rubra. 
Bracts pale red - 34. M. Mannii. 
Bracts bright orange 35. M. aurantiaca. 
Sub-genus Physocaulis. 
Swollen-stemmed Musas. 
[An asterisk is prefixed to those species and varieties of which 
examples are in cultivation at Kew.] 
*]. Musa Ensete, Gmel. Abyssinian Banana. Native name “ Ensete.” 
Bot. Mag., t. 5293-4. North Gallery, No. 516. Whole plant 30-40 
feet high. Stem swollen at the base, not stoloniferous. Leaves oblong 
Bracts densely imbricated 9to 12 inches long, dark claret brown. Fruit 
coriaceous, dry, 2 to 3 inches long. Seeds 14 black, glossy, nearly an 
inch broad with a prominent raised border round the hilum. Distri- 
on:— Mountains of Abyssinia to the hills of ser A 
southward of Victoria Nyanza Lake. The largest known banana. T * 
flowers of a specimen that flowered at Kew in 1878 are connie in the 
Kew Museum ; also a series of seeds from Abyssinia (Plowden) ; Nyanza 
Lake (Kirk); prepared fibre from stem from Abyssinia (Plowde en), 
Jamaica (Morris), and a specimen grown at Kew. 
It was discovered by the traveller Bruce and is remarkable as being 
represented on inn Egyptian seulptures. Plants growing in the 
