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fertile. pe me. often six or more. Fruit ovate-oblong, edible, seed- 
less. According to Loureiro this is a native of e chin-China, where i 
is called Chuo ot “duii. It is, however, unknown to M: Pierre. Mr. 
Baker thinks it may be a form of M. "Cavendishii, Lamb, with a taller 
stem and staminate Gowers abortive. M. Rhin oxeroti s, of Kurz, said to 
be like M. nana, but with all the sheaths of the leaves enveloping one 
another, and with persistent braets and flowers all fertile, is unknown 
at Kew. 
. M. glauca, Roxb. Not stoloniferous. Trunk cylindrical, 10- 
the sessile base. Seeds smooth, globose, nearly black, 4-inch diameter. 
Pegu; introduced to the Caleatta Botanical Garden n by Mr. F. Carey in 
1810. This has flowers like M. superba, and a VAM trunk like 
M. sapientum. Roxburgh in his Coromandel Pl nts, iii. 96, adds, 
* Like my M. superba it never produees suckers, ces Pte it must 
be reared from seed, which it furnishes in great abundance; the fruit 
containing little else, even fit for a monkey to eat 
12. M. acuminata, Colla (M. simiarum, Rumph); M. rumphiana, 
Kurz. Stem high, cylindrical, stoloniferous at the base. Leaves 
oblong, 5-6 feet long, glaucous beneath, deltoid at the base, firmer 
than those of M. sapientum; petiole j= -li feet long, almost with- 
out any membranous edge. Spike drooping, shorter than the leaves ; 
male flowers deciduous; bracts lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, violet, 
only o of those of the female flowers opened at once and re volute, 
th f the male clusters involute at the edge. Cal x white or 
yeliowisb, 1-1} inches long ;'petal ovate-aeuminate, nearly as long as the 
calyx. Fruit in 4—6 clusters of 10-12 each, oblong, rostrate, 2-4 inches 
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pate seedless cultivated varieties are derived, differing in the colour 
of the leaves and fruit. They all have the leaves glaucous beneath, and 
in one form the waxy bloom is so copious ee torches are made from it. 
Var. violacea, Kurz, has its stems, leaves, and flowers more or less 
tinged with dark purple, aud pu urple 3-5. ang em ut with a thick 
ts native name is “pisang teembaya » * pisang oorang 
(copper or crab plantain). Var. culta, Kurz, is dii in all its parts, with 
much larger whitish or yellowish flowers, and longer cylindrical or angled 
yellow or greenish psec fruit. Of this there are 48 distinguishable 
forms, of bris the most curious is the Duck plantain (“ pisang moo- 
look bebbe k”), the fruit of which has a beak nearly as long as its body. 
Baker refers here M. port Zollinger. TIT M. Berterii, 
Colla (M. alphurica, Rumph), which has green and ieaf-like lower bracts 
and pale yellow ripe vom a span long, is a variety of this species. 
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be angular, short, and thick- ot and the bracts yellow inside. 
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