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drum (1875). A fibre from * Jungle plantain (M. superba)” is shown 
from Mangalore, the chief town of South Kanara, in the Madras 
Presidency, and from the Botanic Gardens, Mauritius, Col.-Ind. 
Exhibition, 1886. 
Nepal where 
allich must have described Roxburgh’s 
5, 
Wallich says it grows. , 
M. glauca under the name nepalensis. 
Subgenus Eumusa. 
8. M. lasiocarpa, Franchet. EK singular species only about 1-2 feet 
high, known by the Chinese of Yunnan as Ngay-tsiao (Rock banana). 
Musa'lasiocarpa, Franchet. 
1. Whole plant (2 feet high) much reduced. 2. Sect 
by persistent portions of leaf-sheaths. 3. Fruit with seeds. 4. Flo 
6. Petal. 
ion of rhizome surmounted 
wer. 5, Calyx. 
